Living Accomodations

While Brandon and I were talking about getting married and the things that we wanted and planned, one of the things we both agreed on was buying acerage with a house or building a house. We frequently looked and talked about different things we could do. We also had to decide what to do with my house. One thing was for sure, Brandon wanted to get a place set up and live for a little while before we got married (He didnt give himself much time!). Well, Brandon's grandpa heard that we were looking at property and different places and told him that he had just listed a house for sale out by Lake Conroe. It was the house that Brandon's great grandmother, Mammie AKA Bess Penn, lived in for many years before she needed to be closer to the Oak Ridge area and 24-hr in-home care. Brandon and I went over and looked at the house one evening. Being built in 1975, it was not necessarily the "dream home" you hope for when you are about to "live happily ever after" :-) But I must say that this house definantely had character, not to mention all of the stories and memories his family had with this house! I mean, this house was moved in from the Heights in Houston, it had custom cabinets with pull-out kitchen drawers! Oh! And "roll open" windows! (I'll have to take a picture of those) They are probably one of my favorite things about this house! But... it also had some awful 1970's wallpaper in the bathrooms! So, we had to think about it and it didnt take me long at all. I knew that we had to live in this house and give up my sweet little townhouse so close to everything. I knew that I couldnt ask Brandon to reside in a townhouse in the city. If you know my Brandon, you know what I'm talking about. Well, I wasnt quite ready to say goodbye to my first house that I purchased myself and made into home, so we decided to rent it out for a year or so and see where we were then. "Mammie's" house was much bigger, and a MUCH bigger, fully fenced yard for my 4-legged kids!

It will always be "Mammies House"

My "Quaint" little townhouse! Now could yall really see
Brandon "confined" in this? ha ha