House Hunting

Things we've seen and thoughts we've shared this week....

We should have known things were going to be tuff when the first house we viewed smelled of a mixture of mold, mildew and of course the lavender Glade aroma candle burning just for us. How nice! The house was outdated but not as bad as the underwear lying on the floor upstairs..... All this for only $210,000. How could we refuse!

The realtor assures us he notices that we want a more up to date house, and swiftly takes us right down the road to a lovely two story vinyl-sided home with green goo on the eaves and a laundry room upstairs in a bedroom no less. What were they thinking? The up to date part must have been the paneling or maybe the wall paper that was less than ten years old. But of course the pool was an oasis. The kids assured us they could look past the shortcomings of the house because they would be living at the pool anyway right?

Wow, by the third house the realtor really new our taste and took us to see a newer home in a prestigious subdivision. While it was very pretty, it had no back yard and a balcony upstairs that was open on both the living room side and foyer. The first thing, Seth tried to do a Tarzan to the bottom floor.... Scratch house number three....

The realtor told us about big a house we could get real cheap. Now we're talking! Only the Biohazard crew would have to clean it up first because it was used as a meth house.....

We looked at a house today that was georgeous on the internet but it only reinforced our thinking that everything looks bigger and better on the internet.

So, after exhausting almost all efforts (not many houses for sale in a town with a population of 4,500) we think our 4 year old has the best idea. He asked if we were going to take our house on the big truck with us when we move. Well, we might just do it. If there is underwear on the floor at least I won't be afraid to pick it up.