So we aren’t even homeowners – yet – but my head is spinning already with all the information in this new world. We are getting the home inspected tomorrow, so I’ve got a lot to learn before the July 30th closing date. Let’s compare the old me with the new me, shall we?

Old Sarah would walk into the Home Depot, look around for whatever specific item I was there for and maybe spend 20 bucks. Sarah Homemaker spent two hours there tonight, holding hands with my hubby wandering around until my feet hurt, looking at everything as a possibility for the new house. And that $20 that I spent before? It’s going to have a few zeros added to it when we go in there with our plans.

Old Sarah dutifully vacuumed rented carpet, ambivalent about its muted color or various texture. Sarah Homemaker is  reading brochures, touching samples and watching Rafa discuss the merits of various pads with a white-haired man in an orange apron. Who knew there were so many options!

Sarah Homemaker pet each one of these tiny squares and tried to imagine it covering the living room floor for the next 20 years. On to the next aisle…

…where there were another five million individual cubic feet of loops, berbers and textures for me to caress. These pictures aren’t even showing the whole story – there were several more rows like this! The sheer volume of choices is practically debilitating.

So, as you can see, Rafa and Sarah Soriano, Homemakers, has a lot of homework to do: so much carpet to research. Then we’ll start figuring out the baseboard…