3095 Sq Feet of Big News

Well for almost 14 years James and I have lived in a 1000 sq ft , 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom "beach cottage" with our 16 lb cat, Tigger.  Then two and a half years ago we added a 7 and 9 year old of the human variety, plus a bird, hamster and dog.  Although we have subsequently lost our precious cat, our parakeet, and  the hamster to animal heaven (or more realistically the Pet Cemetery between our garage and the fence) and our dog, Sophie to whoever must have wanted a cute dog for free - we have Molly now who is a bundle of energy poodle/bichon mix and seems like about five dogs!  So it was time . . .


It was a Sunday afternoon in early March and James went to the office to plow through some tax returns.  The kids and I are always looking for something inexpensive (read: cheap free) to do - so we decided to go out to lunch using one of our famous coupons and drive over to the park where Justin was signed up to play basketball.  It is a very nice park next to a very nice school - so we played a while and as we were leaving  we noticed an open house sign.  The kids learned early on that being an Open House "Looky Lou" is one of my favorite things to do - so we stopped. 

We got out.  We looked at it.  We loved it.  Andrea got it in her head we could call Dad and ask him to buy it for us.  I said absolutely not - Dad is stressed enough without you begging for a new house.  Andrea is very good at asking for things until she wears you down - however she just barely mentioned it that night for which I was eternally grateful!  I was afraid we could push him over the edge with this request!  The next morning I told him a bit about it - I did mention that it was the perfect house.

Little did I know that he had decided that morning that if the kids and I loved the house that much - we would get it!  What . . .I know tax season is doing something to his brain!  So I get into the office and he asks me to call the realtor and make an appontment - one look and his remark was "We'll take it!"  Thirteen years of marriage and I never knew that he was so easily persuaded during tax season - although come to think of it we did start adoption classes on April 5, 2008 - I just never put it together! 

To make our long story even longer - we put in an offer, it was accepted (why not - who doesn't accept their own asking price?) - but we decided to keep it from the kids , so they wouldn't be disappointed if something happened and it fell out.  Last Friday we got final approval on everything, had our walk-thru on Saturday and told the kids!  What a day!  They are ecstatic!!!

3095 SQUARE FEET of bliss!  A room for everything and 5 bathrooms (no the 5 is not a typo!) and a pool and a spa!  One of the bathrooms is only accessible from the outside!  Yahoo!  No wet bathing suits in the house and no pee in the pool!  We get the key this Friday, tax season ends, Justin is in two nights of the Pageant of the Arts, then we have a trip planned to Colorado until May 1 - we will move in early May!!!

Gotta go and run out to buy cleaning supplies - the rest of my life will be spent cleaning!

You can see the house if you google virtual tour of 5052 cornell ave.