i decided while outside eating dinner looking at it. when i’m panicking over money and wondering what we have done, i am going to go outside and look at it. the back view *is* my dream home, no wonder we overextended to buy it.
Anyway, BB is a happy girl. she has been plying with those press and ghastly woofy tunes play type toys today. mesmerising! Also while in bath did first roll from tummy back to back – a surprise for her! She lies on my lap like a little cherub form rubenesque school! we would make a very rubenesque mother and child!
SB had her stagecoach show today. it was all very lowkey – as anticipated for a group of mostly 4 year olds. i though SB concentrated remarkably well, and her overacting building sandcastle and pretend cry as sea washed it away drew laughs. I was proud!! [also low key].
At home we played shops – gradually i am using money with real values as i think we use switch too often! We also made our own pompoms to turn into a chick. attention span didnt quite last, so i finished. A bit of piano playing and object hide and seek.
the day brightened though, so we went out intio the garden and dug up more potatoes and picked more beans – yummy. SB raced around the garden, and even rode bike without stabilisers [i think the like a bike a like was instrumental there]. We played tag, and i was hampered by BB in my arms, particularly when my trousers fell down – luckilly no cameras! SB also had great fun climbing and swinging on the tp frame.
the weather was so nice we ate our curry sitting on the lawn. BB had peas and swede instead, as dont fancy her having tummy ache!
OH, earlier in the day SB wrote my sisters birthday card. She is getting quite into writing so nearly did sonlight order for getty and dubay but couldn’t find cc. Also hadn’t clicked from mudpud. on that note, cant find my link to sarah’s science experiments in a box??
chris and i have come up with an order of housedisasters to be sorted – roof leak being at number one spot!!
edit – omg 2.30. how did it get to that time??
It is lovely – and if all else fails, we’ll just have to come and live in it with you
You got room for us to have our own sitting room, our own bathroom… just about enough places to sleep everyone…
Hm, we made a deliberate choice to do the opposite – to not ever over-extend ourselves for the sake of a house. (and to be honest, we still probably have more house than we *need*). Bob would probably have been encouraged too, but I wouldn’t hear of it. But sometimes when I look at gorgeous houses like yours, I do wonder if we made the right choice. We have a very pleasant 4 bedroom detached house, about 30 years old, in a *nice* area, but it’s very ordinary and soulless. Though mostly I am fairly content, as I find debt just about the most stressful thing imaginable, and I hate worrying about the amount of money I have in my purse. I don’t think I’m particularly profligate, (in fact, even frugal on occasion!) but I do like to be able to spend money without counting every penny.
TBH joyce, that was my plan too. not a debt fan. however, chris and i couldn’t find a cheaper house to agree on, and we both wanted a ig garden – we like to try and grow own fruit and veg, and with work, for me an allotment isn’t viable as i’d never be bothered to go there. this severely limited the search! also had to be within 10 miles of wokr etc etc.
the house we would really have ought [at upper limit of budget] would have been a good compromise all round, and I drive past it to work wishing it had stayed on the market [we tried to view it 3 times before it came off] but some things just aren’t meant tio be. This house is just so gorgeous that we bought it in full knowledge opf bottomless pit.
unfortunately my work chnaged goalposts, dropped my salary, and it will drop some more next april = more stuffed than planned!!
so yes, we should have just settled our differences, but hoping it all comes out good in the end. After all, if things got desperate we do have options – shcool and chris at work, or private practice for me. neither appealing though
I think I might have been tempted for you house as well
And I’ve only seen pictures of it. House prices are so ridiculous now – the house we moved from to here (admitedly a better house than this one, with a much bigger garden, on the outskirts of Edinburgh), changed hands again recently and in 9 years it was sold for three times what they paid us for it. How can salaries possibly keep uo with that? Scary.
well, feel free in your tour of the uk to come and make an inspection!! our leeds house went for 3 times the amount we had bought it for 8 years prevously. Silly money indeed. And this one is double that – sigh