When did it all begin?

So this is the first posting on here, I thought I would describe how I ended up living on a building site.

Let us go back in time, not too far back, say last year around about May.

We were living in Livingston in a little 2 bedroom mid-terraced house. It was ok, not very large, but it did have a nice garden and was in an ok area. I am a house husband as I have the extreme good fortune to have a wife who wanted to go back to work. This is lucky for 2 reasons. 1) I hated going to work and have always wanted to be a house husband. 2) She is more talented and motivated than I am, so bound to make more money and go further than I ever would have. This explains why I am the house husband.

Her job was alright, but she wasn't really ever going to go anywhere with the company she was working for, so she started job searching and eventually found a job in Inverness. Now you know how we ended up in Inverness.

Once she got the job offer done and dusted we had to move onto the important issues, such as where do we live. So we drove up to Inverness for a look round and to see what it had to offer. After driving around for a few days, looking at different areas and lots of estate agents windows, we stumbled across the Culduthel Farm Tullochs site. The houses were nice, but way over the budget we had set for ourselves, so we ignored it and continued looking.

Once home I started searching on the internet and found out the Milton of Leys site was slightly cheaper, but still a lot more than we could afford. Not one to give up we ended up calling Direct Line to see just what we could get for our new mortgage. Over the phone, twice, they told us they deal with affordability and not percentage of income, so the amount we needed to borrow for a Tullochs home was fine. This got me thinking, if we are going to move, why not go all out and make the next step up to a 3 bed semi-detached. This would give us the room we wanted and without sounding really sad, be as close to our dream house as money would allow right now. (Don't get me wrong, my dream house is in fact a castle on a shooting and fishing estate in the highlands, but I am still waiting to win the lottery.) With Direct Line saying yes to the amount we needed, we thought we would go for it. Money would be tight for a few years but at least we would be happy.

So now you know why I am at home looking after my little girl, why we ended up in Inverness and how we ended up reserving a Tullochs home.

This seems like a pretty good description of how it started. From now on I'll try and fill you in as to what the hell went so wrong. Living on the building site isn't the only fun we've had since moving, there is so much more to it. I hope once you have read a little more it does, in some way, explain why I can seem a little angry at times.