Before our daughter’s diagnosis, my wife and I were discussing our living situation and were thinking about buying a new house. We knew that we had another child on the way, so we decided to start looking at homes.
I’m a Realtor, so I know that once people start looking, even if it’s just online, it’s tough to stop that feeling of wanting to move into a new home. So, once we started a looking, I knew it would just be a matter of time.
We were renting at the time because we had moved from Florida back to PA and were in a brand new rental unit. We were the first people to live in the apartment and we quickly loved the idea of being the only people to ever live in a place, so we knew a new build was what we wanted.
We started to look at some new build communities online, but nothing serious. That search was put on hold once she was diagnosed. We decided that we needed to put all of our efforts and thoughts into this new way of life, rather than dealing with the building of a new home.
That didn’t last too long.
Before our daughter's diagnosis, my wife and I were discussing our living situation and were thinking about buying a new house. We knew that we had another child on the way, so we decided to start looking at homes. Click To TweetAfter about a month we finally found the community we wanted to build in and what style of house that we were going to build.
We started the process in March and initially expected the house to be done in September. We also knew that our new daughter was going to arrive in June or July, so nothing to stress about right?
It was definitely a lot of added stress.
In July, it became very stressful.
We had a newborn, a 4-year old with Type 1 Diabetes, in the end stages of building a new home with building timing issues, final mortgage issues, and being in a new profession for only 3-4 months.
The stress was becoming unbearable. I was having almost daily panic attacks from one thing or another.
This is when I really started to work on meditation and breathing exercises and making sure that I was getting a good amount of sleep.
After it was all said and done, we ended up closing on our house in mid-September and it was even more stressful moving in and trying to get things unpacked and situated with a newborn.
When our first daughter was born, we moved a month before she was born, so we seem to have some sort of fun moving near child birth.
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