House Hunting

We are officially house hunting. I'm excited and terrified at the same time. Let me first tell you why i'm excited. We bought the house we are currently living in when I was 8 months pregnant for Nadia. We really needed a house and didn't hav the luxury of taking our time. This house was a major deal and Rob just felt we couldn't pass it up. We had looked at it together once and I wasn't convined it was for us. It needed a lot of work and it was small. The next day I went to work and the real estate agent called Rob and told him that the family really needed to sell and would pretty much take ANY offer so she suggested taht Rob really low ball and offer and go from there to at least getsome negotiations started. So he did...remember, i was at work so I wasn't informed of this decision. Anyway, the people surprised even the agent and they accepted our offer. So we knew this house was not a long term thing. We made the decision to stay for 5 years and then move to what would be the house we want to live the rest of our lives in. 5 years was last September andwe are still in this house. The reason being we went and bought a 25 000 trailer last year and Rob felt we should pay 2 years on it before approaching the bank for a mortgage. Fast forward to now. We saw a house on the market that we just had to go see. It seemed to have almost everything we were looking for and even Rob agreed that we should go see it. So we did. We both like the house but now that we've seen that one we ant to see a few more before making any decisions. We are going to look at a few more next weekend that I'm even more excited to see because they are newer. One is only 1 year old and another is only 5 years old whereas the one we say yesterday is 19 years old. I am way past ready to be out of this house. I can't wait to start the next chapter of our lives in a new home, in what really would be our dream home.

Now, on to why i'm terrified. Remember that trailer I mentioned...well we don'teven have a full year of payments under our belt yet so we may not even get approved for a mortgage and that scares me. I would HATE to fall in love with a house only to be told we can't afford it. So Rob is going to go meet with the bank this Friday so we know before we start looking to much more. Also the houses we are looking at are not where we currently live. They are in communities 20 and 30 mins from here. That would mean a new school for nadia. It would also mean that I wouldn't have the family resource center every morning like I do now and I have a large community of friends here that took me a long time to find. So it would be out of my comfort zone to leave this. I thought I had made up my mind to stay in Sussex, but now I seem to have buttlerflies in my stomach about the thought of leaving. You know that feeling you get when you meet someone for the 1st time and there is that chemisty between you that makes you feel all silly inside. That' s how i feel.

I'll be sure to keep you updated as we go through this journy. Any words of wisdom would be apprciated.

If you're interested check out www.mls.ca and look at numbers 265180, 270152 and 265847

Update

Well, I now have 3 workouts under my belt at curves. I'm still not certain howI feel about it. I like getting out of the house by myself and I like that everyone there seems to be very welcoming but what I don't like is how regulated it is. It is 30 min 3 times a week and that is it. You are not to go 4 times a week you are not to do more then 30 min. I just don't feel that30 min is enough for me. I talked to one of the workers and she agreed that I seem to need a bit more and says that it is because I am already in such great shape. To get 30 min you go around the circut 2.5 times she said she thought it would probably be ok for me to 3 times around starting next week. We'll see how that goes. She also said some of the other staff may not agree with that idea. Anyway, I'm glad that I'm going and i will miss it when the month ends but now I have a whole new dilema. There is a bathsuit that I really like in the Spring/Summer 2007 sears catelog, but it's expensive. So now i may have to make the choice between continuing at curves or buying the bathing suit. My EI runs out mid February and then i will depend on babysitting money so doing both is not really a choice.

On the babysitting front. Last week was my 1st week with Scotia (yes that is her name). She did great! This was the 1st time she has ever been left with a non family member and her mom was really worried but she adjusted really well. There were no tears, in fact she did cry when her mom tried to take her home the 2nd day she was here.

Today is Friday and I have a little break, both Vanessa and Scotia are not here today so it will be just Livy and i until Nadia gets home from school. This has been a great week and i'm really glad to have it end this way.

Have a great weekend everyone.

staying in shape

I began jogging last April and by October I lost 30lbs! Obviously I was very pleased with these results. I've manged to stay at that weight and have been trying to work on toneing instead of weight loss. I have a couple of work out videos and I still jog when the weather permits but I'm not really making much progress. I really think i need to go to a gym so I can get some weight lifting into my routien, however who has time to go to a gym when they have kids!!! I just can't fathum that I would actually have the time to go so I feel I would be wasting my money. Speaking of money...it's expensive. For example, a friend of mine gave me a free months membership to curves (my 1st workout is this morning). I'm really looking forward to trying it out, however, if i love it and want to continue the price just to join is $99.00 plus your months membership fee of $40.00. I go back to work at the end of April at which time I will not be able to go to a gym anymore so I really can't bring myself to fork over that kind of money for 2 months use. Anyone have any advice for me?

Wish me luck today at Curves...i'll let you know how I make out.

Finally I can post

I've been trying to log into my blog for a couple of weeks now to no avail. Finally today I'm able.

We had a fantastic Christmas. Christmas day my faither in law and brother in law came here in the morning and then after lunch we went to my parents house. The girls got WAY to much stuff this year. Would you believe there are things that i haven't even taken out of the boxes yet and they haven't even noticed.

Only 3 more months until I go back to work and I'm already counting down. I'm really looking forward to working again. In the mean time I start babysitting another little girl on Monday. She will be 2 in April so a little younger then I'm used to having around but she is a sweet little girl. Hopefully i'm not biting off more then I can chew with a 3 year old, a 2 year old, and a 1 year old. We shall soon see.

Well supper is almost really so i'll end with some pictures and try and post again soon.