We Found a House!

Finally! We found a house. Living on the coast was a difficult thing for everyone. I guess we pretty much wore out our welcome. Okay, I know, six months is a long time for two teenagers and a mom to live in one room together. They had none of their friends around to hang with. Not to mention the strain we put on the g'ma and g'pa. They were so done with us...and I don't blame them. I'm really lucky to have an excellent family I can turn to when I need them.

Well, for us, it was worth the waiting a hundred times over. We have the most amazing house. We looked at so many. I calculated it out, sort of, and I'd say there were probably about fifty houses. Out of those fifty, we drove by about thirty-five or forty and we actually went inside about fifteen. These calculations are based on the addresses entered in Google Maps (the addresses still come up when I enter a number) and on my memory, since I did not use map search for every house. We spent many hours just driving around desirable neighborhoods and sometimes we would see a "for rent" sign. I also looked on lots of different websites; local property management sites, The Tribune's online classifieds, and craigslist and they would sometimes have directions.

We found this house on craigslist. It is brand new. I mean new as in "no one has EVER lived in it" or as in "the carpeting isn't in yet, but it will be a tan color" new. Yeah, like that new! It's exciting and we are happy. We have so much to do. Lots of unpacking still (I'm kind of a book hoarder).