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Hopes and dreams for a new home...

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  • gerbiljo
    gerbiljo Posts: 848 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Congratulations! Just saw this, oooh I'm so broody and emotional! well done you! :)
    Mortgage November 2003 was £135k, but thanks to this website on 28/08/12 we became MORTGAGE FREE!
    Now just over 2 years we have taken on the challenge again! )(starting £237k Nov 2014) Current mortgage £232,399.82, current overpayment total £1550, years remaining= 17
  • Oh Iris congrats!!! :)
    another baby joins the MF board!
    take it easy and enjoy these first few days

    tyo x
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,833 Forumite
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    Wow!!! HUGE congratulations, Iris! :D Sounds like a wonderful birth experience :)

    Take care of yourself and get some rest!!! xx
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
    Repaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NIL
    Net sales 2024: £20
  • pammyj74
    pammyj74 Posts: 3,290 Forumite
    wowweeeee he's here! huge congrats and what a lovely birth.
    Can I ask the name?
    Family of 8 now, wow.
    MPs left feb '08 276- Dec 13 36 :T MB Jan 10 ~ £82,377 Dec 13 ~ £29987
    EMFD was Feb 32 :eek: NOW Dec 2013 its Dec 2016
    MF new target Dec 16 REACHED!! :j
  • Congratulations Iris. Knew it would not be Sunday. I don't think you could have asked for it to be better than that could you. Get some rest now. Love to you and yours xx
  • SmlSave
    SmlSave Posts: 4,911 Forumite
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    Congratulations!!!!!! :T:T:T:T:T:T


    congratulations-on-your-new-baby-boy.jpg
    Currently studying for a Diploma - wish me luck :)

    Phase 1 - Emergency Fund - Complete :j
    Phase 2 - £20,000 Mortgage Fund - Underway
  • LilacPixie
    LilacPixie Posts: 8,052 Forumite
    Congratulations. Only very very lucky people are born on the 13th :)
    MF aim 10th December 2020 :j:eek:
    MFW 2012 no86 OP 0/2000 :D
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Congratulations!!!!!!

    PS - glad the Gaviscon worked ;)
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Iris_Blue
    Iris_Blue Posts: 1,421 Forumite
    edited 7 March 2012 at 12:46PM
    Thanks for all your good wishes everyone x



    Im glad it wasnt Sunday Michelle - Its funny how it does work out, how we worry unnecessary about it all.

    XS - I'm glad you delurked! :)


    We had a horrendous first night together as he was rushed into hospital last night when we had to call an ambulance out to him. We dont really know what the cause was but we suspect some kind of blockage. I woke him for a feed at 1am as he hadn't really fed much all day although it was only 5 hours since his last one. He was sick and then all of a sudden he arched his back and head so his body was a rigid c shape, he had what we think was vomit coming all down his nose and out of his mouth. It was the scariest thing ever. I blew on his face so he would breath and turned the light on overhead to startle him..nothing so we had to call an ambulance. It was the scariest 2 minutes of our lives until he relaxed his body and breathed again. The paramedics were fab and it took 3 minutes from us calling them to them coming round. Excellant service.

    We then went to hospital where he was given a one over (waste of time really as they didnt see it and dont know what it was) and we got home at 4:30am, relieved but scared to sleep. Thank god we have a baby monitor that monitors babies breathing too. The alarm sounded twice on that last night which is quite normal but after the hospital visit we slept with one eye open anyway and the alarm didnt help.

    Hoping for a better night tonight !

    Pay day tomorrow so hoping to be back and make a small OP :)

    Iris
    I can't be bothered updating this anymore
  • CathT
    CathT Posts: 7,133 Forumite
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    Oh my goodness, how frightening. So relieved everything is ok now.

    Beautiful name to go with a beautiful boy
    June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!
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