Saturday, January 3, 2009

Time to move on?

My dad left this morning to drive back to California.  The boys and I are going to miss him.  Ayden especially.  He and Papa have a special bond.  I was sitting in my chair relaxing after I put the boys in bed and I all of the sudden missed having my dads company.

The boys and I just hung out at the house for most of the day today.  We ran a couple of errands later in the afternoon, nothing major.  I think we will go to Walmart tomorrow for a few things.  I need to get Christian new school supplies for the next half of the year.  

I've been thinking a lot about moving.  This house is great and its special because it is our first home however I am NOT emotionally attached to it.  Dominic on the other hand IS.  He would have a hard time moving because we have done a lot to our house.  We put new windows in, we updated the bathroom, painted all the rooms, built a deck, changed all the lighting fixtures...etc.  In my mind, those things just add to the value.  The fact is that we have outgrown this house.  We have a lot of furniture and every wall has something on it.  The house looks cluttered now and I don't like that.  Here's what we need:  at least 4 bedrooms, a dining room, two living areas, maybe a bigger garage or a small piece of land and a bigger kitchen for sure.  I am going to use this time while Dominic is away to make some improvements/updates to areas that I feel are going appeal to a buyer and hopefully I can convince Dominic when he gets back that we NEED a bigger house.  Now that we have no credit card debt we could probably qualify for a bigger loan too.  The homes here haven't lost value like they have back home.  I think the biggest problem is that unless we buy something that is newer, we will have to do some work.  It seems that people spend more money so they can drive a new car than on their homes here.  We had that problem when we were looking for a home when we got here.  It was a frustrating roller coaster of emotions that we were on.  Anyhow, we'll just see what happens.  There's no huge rush.

I'm going to hit the sack.  Mason is back in his crib tonight so hopefully he and I will both sleep good.

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