House Shopping

We love our house and it has been great to us. We moved in after only being married a month. This is our home where we spent the first 4 years of our married life. This home is where we brought our first baby home from the hospital to. We have painted every room at least once. We (Matt) has thrown his back out tiling showers, digging up tree stumps, replacing lighting, ripping out carpet, building fences, trimming trees, building pergolas and planting flower beds. We have shed some major sweat on this house trying to make it our little dream home. Up until this point it really has been our dream home. It is perfect in every way. Well, except the fact that it is only 870 sq ft and with our plans of growing our family in the future, we know we will outgrow our house. We are pretty much starting to bust at the seams.

We try and not keep stuff we no longer have room for and try to be creative with our lack of storage but there comes a point when enough is enough. Our house is adorable. It is small. It is very easy to clean. When you walk through it, it rattles and shakes like there is a stampede running through, which is perfect for Cohen's nap time which when nap time comes I either have to park it on the couch and not move for an hour or go outside until he wakes up.

We could easily add onto our house but that gets expensive and at this rate, we will need to stay in our home another 20 years before we can make a profit on it. The neighborhood is nice with lots of old homes, like we love, but a lot are rentals and the feel of the neighborhood can change on a monthly basis.

With all of these factors, we have decided to start looking for a new home. It will be hard to give up our little shoe box that we have slaved over to make so pretty. It is where our life started.

Where we learned to live together as Mr. and Mrs. Where we learned how to be parents. Where we learned the joys of being home owners and the great responsibility that comes along with it. If I could, I would bring it with me and put it on a back lot.

So the hunt begins. Over the past month we have looked a many home and only finding 3 worth bidding on. The first one was pretty. To talk about it now still makes me sad. It was perfect. They went with another offer. The second house we great, too. So much potential. They were way over priced and wouldn't come down at all. The third house is one we saw yesterday. It has the potential to become wonderful. It sits on half and acre, which you can't see since it is so overgrown with weeds. It would be perfect if it had a pool! We have put in an offer on that one and are now just waiting to see if they accept. Maybe third times a charm.

I thought I would be so sad to leave this home but after looking around at new homes I find that I am becoming less emotional at the thought of moving on. I think it means it's the next chapter in our life. A bigger home which will have room for a bigger family. I think of it as this. You know when you have had a dog your whole life? That dog has been the best dog and no other dog could ever take it's place... well the dog starts getting older and while you still love it, you decide to get a new puppy. With the puppy you have new excitement. You then start to find yourself not so attached to the old dog and thinking it might be pretty easy to say good bye to it when the time comes... that is how I feel in this situation.

Hopefully we will find a great house soon and we can move on to the next chapter in our lives.