When we started this adoption journey, we thought we would be moving to a larger home this fall. Selling one home and moving to another is easier said than done now right now. When we moved from Dallas to northern NJ, it was a big and costly move and quite frankly, sticker shock. It was insane when we moved to NJ in 2006, the height of the market. In our desirable town, we bid on 3 houses and 3 bidding wars before we were the winning bidder on the house we live in now. I can hardly believe the insanity of what I witnessed purchasing a home in 2006 in NYC suburbia. The people we bought our house from lived in it for 2 years and they made a profit of what our home in Dallas cost. Our realtor told us we could live in our little house for two years and then we would move on up. I knew it was too good to be true, but you have to live somewhere and we didn't want to pass us the tax break.
Now, times have changed and its a great time to buy, not a great time to sell. Adding to the trouble, because of the cost of housing in our area, its all jumbo loans, right now, every lender wants 20% down. That's a sizable chunk of change, especially when you factor in the amount it would take to unload our house. So, we are revising our plans. We're staying put for the forseeable future. That means I finally have to downsize our furniture and all the stuff we have had taking up space in our basement for the past three years. We moved from a 3000 square foot house to one almost half the size. Add to that the massive amount of children's paraphanalia and I have some purging to do.
We toyed with the idea of purchasing a cosleeper and having Oliver sleep beside me at night. We were thinking of doing this so we could continue using our guest bedroom as a guest room. But we decided the other night that after our summer guests leave, the guest room will go to a storage unit and it will officially become Oliver's room and he will sleep in there. Chloe has a queen bed and when guests come, they can use her room. Trust me, she's in our bed most nights anyway so it won't put her out.
Matt says he and Chloe are picking the paint color. That means I need to get going picking out the bedding so he will have some inspiration (or should I say a strong hint) at what color to pick. In two weeks I am going to the Po*ttery Ba*rn outlet and am hoping to get some ideas.
In the meantime, the list of to dos is growing. Its raining today, so I guess its a good day to get started.
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