Townhouse Part 2

Soooo a lot of you that are near and dear to us know that we are having house issues.

It is what it is- and when something like that is taken out of your hands you just sorta need to move on. It sucks, I won’t lie. Every time I walked into that house I felt like it was my house.

The good thing is we are in a buyers market. We have no house to sell. We are ready to buy. So when something pops up we can act quick.

The bad news is that I need to find a new place to rent- our lease here ends at the end of the month. We spent all weekend looking at houses to buy or rent and decided that we might just move into one of the bigger places here . I hate townhouse living but they do have bigger units with basements and I think the added sq footage would get us through until another house else pops up. Plus we can have our furniture delivered here and be able to fit more in, store the rest in the garage and probably a local storage place. Instead of paying the outrageous daily fee we are paying for the moving company to keep it in Ohio.

So- the saga continues. Probably closing one door but hopefully another one will open down the road. I realized last night that it might just be time to stop wasting everyones time. Not to mention we are torturing our kids- they are all so sad about the house. But saying, “we are going to buy it- we aren’t going to buy it” is making them as crazy as it is making me. Yesterday we went to look at a house and Cole didn’t want to leave because he just wanted to swing sticks around in the backyard. The boy needs a yard, and as I snapped at them for asking question after question about why we don’t have a house or are we ever going to get a house- well…. it’s time to get a house.

We sold the house I adored- and listed it for less than what I thought it was worth, but I wanted a fast sell. And now while we are on the other side I just need to remind myself to slow down. Consider the diamonds in the rough like our previous house. We let three fixer-uppers slip by while we were going after this house. We could have sunk a ton of money into any one of them and still come out way under this other house. We just thought we didn’t want to do the fixer thing again. Now we are starting to rethink it all.

I am sad, but I am determined- if every thing some how worked out on this house I would be a happy girl, but I am beyond exhausted with it all. I am in full back-up plan mode now. And that’s not a bad thing. And my back-up plan may start sooner rather than later.

Now for an iPhone dump- and make sure you check out Blake- every time I pull out the camera he makes some weird face- usually this big teeth look. I love the pic of Cole hiding in the laundry hamper so he can read his book (trying to get away from Eva). Austin and his girlfriend….Eva playing the drums at our friends house in Ohio. And the last pic, the one of Cole when he went back to see his teacher in Ohio….I cried. My fave teacher ever!!!!