We're Approved!

We recently started checking out rental homes to try and find a more affordable, and more long-term-rental, living arrangement prior to my shipping off in June.  It's been a long, and sometimes frustrating process, trying to find a rental home that had the space we desired, was in a decent neighborhood, wasn't too old and rickety, but wasn't way outside of our budget either...you know, all the fun give-and-takes that come along with trying to put a decent roof over your heads.

Well, last Friday night, I stumbled upon a true gem while I was searching online.  I did my best to not get my hopes up too high, because we'd been upset a handful of times already by misleading pictures online, or by houses that were still be advertised online, when in reality, they had already been rented out.  Saturday morning the hubs and I headed up to Re/Max to see if it was available.  It was!!  But low and behold, there was another couple interested in looking in it as well (not to mention a few other access hiccups because it was so newly available), so we were a bit nervous when we drove out to look around.  When we saw how perfect it was, we both sent up prayers that there would be no competition issues and that we could be blessed to get this house.  (I literally don't know that I'd seen Mr. Johnson as excited about anything in quite some time!!)

And guess what, the call may have come a day later than we were told it would come, but we got the house!  And the good news blessing comes just in the nick of time to lift our spirits, since we had a dose of unpleasant Army-reality bummer-type news yesterday.

I'm not a fan of feeling broke, but I do not at all mind the feeling when it means I'll soon get to let my dog, and myself, run lose in THIS backyard!