Torment

Hi all - I've been a bit quiet over the past few days. Hubby and I found, and I'm not kidding, the house of our dreams! It's a higher price than we wanted to pay and we are going over the sums again and again and again, trying to figure out whether we can do this thing and still have a reasonably comfortable lifestyle. We've had conferences with the mortgage guy who is OK with the price rise, but basically it's up to us now. How much are we really prepared to spend every month for the rest of our lives?! That's such a tough call! And how can we completely know how we will cope when circumstances change in the future? And how tiring it is looking ahead at the years of toil and saving - no more of the crazy spend-all life we've been living! It makes it all so much tougher when we look at the bait that's drawing us further into this lifelong entrapment/bliss - check out this pic of the garden. Trust me, the house is even better!