Oh my concussion

Well, me being a cluts is nothing new, me getting a severe concussion and a fractured tailbone, well that my friends is a first for me. Not to mention, in the midst of all this we managed to sell our house by owner in less than 4 days. Yep, only those kinds of things happen to us and especially to me. I am one month yesterday from this freak fall and I'm still struggling with the symptoms and I can tell you that it is taking a real toll on me. I've reached back out to the neurologist's office and haven't heard back from them yet, but I don't think there will be much they will tell me other than it will take time. At my first visit after my fall they said it will take time for me to recover from this severe of a concussion (up to 2 to 3 months, ugh) and the soreness it terrible. I guess it's true what "they" say, as you age, you do not recover as quickly as you used to when you were younger. Dang "them". LOL... This sure does make me long to see my baby boy more and more every day as I struggle to recover from this stupid fall.

Oops, We're doing it again....

Well, I truly thought this house we are in here in Scissortail subdivision would be our last house, but here we are under contract again with plans to build our very first house. This time we get to build from the ground up, which neither of us have never done. Over the last year we have been talking with Tia and Drew about the future and their plans along with our future plans and over time it just evolved into what would now be our retirement plans of retiring close to them out at the lake at Hickory Creek where Tia's lake house is and build across the street from her and Drew and when they start having babies I would retire and keep the babies. I couldn't be more thrilled and to top it off, we did great with the sale of our homes. I wanted to attempt to sell by owner before listing with an agent since we weren't in any hurry at the time and we didn't have the land secured yet so I just posted pictures I took with my cell phone and posted it to Zillow. Withing the first 24 hours we had a ton of views and saves and within 15 minutes the calls started. Before 4 days were up we had an over asking offer and accepted. The kids listed theirs as coming soon for sale by owner and 2 hours later had multiple over asking offers and by that evening had an accepted offer. It just feels like all of this was meant to be. What our immediate future holds is packing up our homes and the kids will live in their RV until their renters move out of the lake house the end of July and they move in the first of August and we will move into a furnished apartment until our home is built, most likely around August/September time frame. I can't wait. We hope to also include a swimming pool, that may or may not happen, but I'm hoping it does. With what we will stand to make on this house and what we got the land for we should walk away and walk into the new house with virtually no mortgage or at least have it paid off in under one year. That is what I call a good retirement plan. This will also allow Tebo the opportunity when he just gets completely fed up with work, he can have options to walk away and retire as well or at least find a less stressful job and relax more. I'm ready for this next stage in our lives and look forward to this new chapter. Someone mentioned there was no way they would build a house with their spouse. To me, that is very sad. We work really well together and I have no hesitation to building a house together. We have very similar tastes and we agree on nearly everything and the things we may not completely agree on, we are good to compromise on. I'm not concerned and neither is he. This will be a fun adventure for sure. More to come on this next chapter of the Boyett/Fosters aka the BOFO's.

"Barndo Living"

Well, I really didn't think I would be the one to be on board with this "change" in our life, but I am ready and I know it will set us up for what could come in the future. Tia and Drew have a lake house that Tia built before they married and they've been renting it out since getting married. They have been living in the home Drew owned before they married and they will sell that one and once we get pricing on the lots Tebo and I will purchases lots behind their exisiting lake house. They will build a large garage/barn on the lot behind the house and have an RV. They will move into the lake house and once they are ready they will beging to add on almost as much square feet as what is there now and live in the RV while the remodel is getting done. We will be a couple of lots behind them if this all works out and we will then begin the process of working to live off Tebo's salary alone once we are in and see if it will then be possible for me to retire and when the time is right, babysit our grandbabies as they come into this world. I'm excited to know that this will put us in such a better financial position so that as we creep up on retirement age we won't have to worry about a mortgage or what to do next. We will have the kids close if we need help and they will have us close if they need the help. Right now it feels like a pipe dream, but I do believe it is doable and I'm just ready to get this ball rolling. We have a builder coming out Wednesday, Feb. 3rd to discuss plans/budget/options. We then will hopefully meet with a friend to discuss clearing the land and prepping for building. In the meantime I will attempt to sale our current home by owner and with lots of prayers and fingers crossed it will sell for what we would like to get and quickly so when we find out if the lots will work out we can move forward. It will be a bit odd as we will likely live in an apartment while building should the house sale as quickly as we anticipate, but it will just be another adventure we will experience together while planning for our long term, hopefully retiring, future. I will attempt to blog about this experience every chance I get. Right now, we are in what I would call "Pre-Phase" 1. We wait to hear what the seller wants for the lots while selling our current home and then we wait. Once we have our builder nailed down and agree on plans and budget, the fun will begin. It is our hope and prayer that we can build this with cash and have no mortgage.