The Big Giraffe and have wrestled back and forth over the years with whether or not to move. We would like a tiny bit more space. However, we love our home. Hence the difficulty of the decision. Our deadline to ourselves was always before our older son (OS) started kindergarten.
Somehow, the years went by quickly and before we knew it OS was starting pre-k last month. That's right, next year he will start kindergarten. This upcoming spring is the spring that we always said we would put our house up on the market. The Big Giraffe and I talked it over amongst ourselves and with our financial adviser. We decided to go ahead and do it it this spring. Of course this was all before the current economic crisis. However, we're keeping our fingers crossed (for more than just our own personal reasons of course), but even if we ultimately decide that this really just is a lousy time at least we will have gone ahead and readied our house to go on the market for the following spring.
While it's really exciting, it's also a little sad. We went ahead and looked at a couple of houses. As we were going on the tours, I kept thinking, "Need new furnace. We just did that. Needs new wiring. We just did that. Needs new kitchen. We just did that." It's just that we really fixed up our house so everything is relatively new or at the very least in working order. Everything is nice and pretty with tons of sunshine, and if I light a scented candle it smells good too. I always relax when I walk in the door. However, not sad enough that I don't want to move. That's where we are here in the Giraffe household. We're getting things up and running. Worst case scenario? We're super organized for the spring of 2010.
A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Once you finish improving your home, you are ready to move.
We looked and looked and looked and looked and decided that we'd remodel our beloved (but a little too small) house instead.
Then our realtor called us very excited. We had to come THAT MINUTE. D couldn't make it. I could. I called him. D you HAVE to see this!
We put in a bid within an hour. It's our perfect house and it was completely worth the wait. It will all work out. Yes, it was sad to leave our other house, and yes, we'll probably move when C is out of high school because it's too much house for just the two of us, but we really, really love it. It's been perfect for raising an active boy.
So exciting! I love the idea of moving and am seriously considering it for next year. However, when I really start to look at our options, it's a little depressing to think that while we might be getting more room, any home that fits all our criteria will probably need a lot of work too. Hopefully your budget puts you guys well above this annoying scenario. And plus if you have plenty of time to look, you just might find the pre-polished diamond, instead of just the rough.
Professional Mom of two cats, a dog, an ant farm, and oh yeah...two boys: a 6 year old and a 3 year old. Also found in my house is my husband who is known on this blog as The Big Giraffe.
For those of us who didn't get an instruction manual with our babies and for whom parenting hasn't always gone as planned. On a more serious note this blog is about supporting a woman's ability to make her own choices about parenting including the choice, for whatever reason, to bottle feed her babies formula.
I'm a little jealous that you at least sort of have that option to move! My husband would never move.