I’m definitely a bit late to sharing this, but I wrote the back-page essay in R*Home magazine about our Griffin project. What I didn’t share in most of our blog posts is that I was pregnant throughout the renovation, and that the timing of our son’s gestation timed eerily well with our work on the house. An excerpt:
“We were taking a gamble, using every last cent of our savings to attempt a flip when our knowledge was limited to what we’d seen on HGTV. And the heightened emotions and diminished capabilities of pregnancy caused a lot of anxiety for me, while putting a huge amount of pressure on my husband. In short, it was a stupid idea.
And yet, after a few years of watching the neighborhood’s housing prices rise — and plenty of “Fixer Upper” marathons — we’d gathered the courage to take a chance on flipping a house. Even if the timing was rather inconvenient.”
You can read the full piece about flipping a house while pregnant here.
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