New home!

We have chosen our new home! It's about 600m (as the crow flies) from our current house. It's currently empty so we have no chain really, just our buyers and us which hopefully will make things less complicated. It's quite a significant jump in price and size but we wouldn't really ever have to move unless we really wanted to. It's strange to think that this could be the home we stay in forever. Apart from the house I grew up in (my parents have lived there ever since they were married...), I lived in 14 different houses between the age of 18-25 until we finally moved here. Even living here, although it has been our home and I love it, we always knew we would move on to something bigger in the not too distant future so it is hard to think that this could be it!

Finally I see light at the end of the tunnel when I say 'I'll do (insert blank) when we move to our new house'!

Result!

WE SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm soooooooo pleased. We had 2 couples come and look last week on Wednesday and Thursday then the 2nd couple came back on Friday with parents in tow which is always a good sign. I could hear them saying things like 'oooh the dining area looks much more spacious than on the photos' so we were pretty hopeful. Then on Monday they made us a decent offer so we accepted! It was my birthday on Sunday -I was pretty spoilt - and what better present than this? They had looked at the house 2 doors down which was £18,000 more than ours, couldn't afford it, saw ours and snapped it up! No more tidying! Ok, I will tidy really... just not as perfectly... Ben has declared that he is never mowing the lawn again so I tried to declare that I was never washing the kitchen floor again but I'm not sure that is sensible or actually hygienic........

I got all emotional after I rang the estate agents to accept the offer and then when I told the neighbours. I'll probably be a snivelling wreck come moving day which brings me nicely onto our next problem - choosing which house to move to out of a limited number of options. Option 1:The cheaper 4 bedroom house which has smallish bedrooms and small weird shape garden but a decent amount of downstairs space but not alot of light. Option 2: pay quite a bit more for a much bigger garden, bigger bedrooms, bigger bathroom and alright size downstairs with good light but going to have houses built next to it and behind. Options: limited.

Oh

I forgot to mention that the viewer didn't want to buy our house. I think she must actually be crazy, there can be no other explanation.

On the move...

I think we have slighty outgrown our 2 bedroomed house even with its lovely new kitchen. 2 kids, 3 parents, 2 bedrooms doesn't work out too well for long! We are doing the finishing touches to our house over the next few days to get it on the market next week. Actually, all we are going to do is paint the hallway/stairs and the living room and tidy up the garden a bit. Though it's exciting and necessary I've been feeling pretty sentimental about leaving this house. This is longest I've lived in any house except my parents, it's our first bought house, we have 5 years here, welcomed 3 baby girls into our family and made many, many happy memories. The location is great, quiet and safe for the girls to play out, plenty of children to play with, easy distance to school/playgroup and you don't feel like you are living on top of your neighbours. As much as I am looking forward to moving I'm so sad to leave. There are a few houses on the market we are interested in so watch this space!!!

Every penny counts!

We've been looking to move house for over a year now, not quite the right time yet but hopefully soon. Anyway, yesterday we went for a walk to the Bluebells woods (which was gorgeous, Bex took some more fab pics soon to be uploaded) and on the way back Esther asked if we could plant some bluebells in our garden. I told her we would plant some in our new garden when we move house because if we planted them in this garden we probably (hopefully) won't see them bloom. She asked when we were moving house and we explained it all depends on money to which she replied that she had some in her money box we could have. When we got home she went straight to her money box, emptied it and gave it to me telling me it was for the new house! How thoughtful and selfless!! She has been asking me all day if I have the money for the house somewhere safe. Unfortunately all the coins were 1p's or 2p's but it's the thought that counts!

50 days!

Wow, I can't believe it - 50 days left till baby Conway is due! Still so much to do!!! We are currently debating swapping bedrooms with the girls. Our house only has 2 bedrooms both decent sizes but ours is bigger. So we are debating moving them into our room and putting all their toys up there so they don't need to be stored in the living room. At the same time the baby will be in our room for at least 6 months and we are hoping by then to be able to move house so maybe it's not worth the hassle of swapping over. Then there is the issue of the car, not sure if we can fit 3 car seats in the back so maybe we need to buy a bigger car! Then we are waiting to hear when our kitchen is going to be fitted. There are a few houses on the market we want to take a look at too. Ooooh lots of big things going on - or so it feels like!

On the plus side Eliza is doing fab with the potty training! We had our first accident free day on Sunday but having said that she has never had any horrible accidents mostly just teeny tiny ones so I am really glad I bit the bullet and got the potty out!

Esther and Eliza are starting to really play nicely together and enjoy one anothers company - I love to watch or listen to them together.

Right then, I'd best go and do some of my to-do list!