Well when I have lots of ideas and thoughts running through my head I find that often forget to put a final check mark on the mental checklist I always have going. I never even updated people on our finidings after having had the realtor here. We could do fairly okay on the market and if we had been prepared for this it would be a good thing…however you really have to have all of your ducks in a row ro make it worth it. We do not have money set aside right now for a down payment and it would be silly to walk away from a house and even though we would not owe anything we would only have a couple thousand from the sale. I would much rather go into our next house with a nice down payment instead. Plus we have a busy summer of things ahead of us. Honestly things here are not so bad that we are going to kill each other because we do not have enough space either. There is more than enough room for us and all of kids have their owns rooms and are happy. It may not be the most perfect set up at times but we are so blessed with what we do have and should stay in the content zone while things are good.
So who know what the long term plan is because as much as we say oh yeah lets look at things again in 2 years it’s hard to think about losing some of the great perks that we do have here in this house! Which then puts us back into the circle of what can we do here to make it what we want. The main thing of all things would be to find a way to give Maddie a real bedroom. If there is a way to make that happen then honestly that would solve most of the problems that make living here a con. If she had a bedroom that was not where it is now that could become an office for Joel and the Basement would offer better storage options again as well. We really love our location here in the Village of Spring Lake that allows us to walk to a lot of things and an awesome Bike path as well. Who knows but maybe in a few years that is when we will know what the right direction is for us. For now it seems that the path God wants us to follow is to remain here and to be happy with what we have now.
In the mean time we may make a few more tweaks along the way to make things better. One of the things that needs to be done is make the back porch a bit more inviting. It’s always so dirty and it make sitting out there so much of a chore at times to me. Maybe we can repaint it all get different type of gate that doesn’t allow for everything to blow back there and make our nice area so dirty. We could even get a new table set at some point with nice outdoor cushions on the chairs that give it more of a retreat type of feel. Some of the changes would be so easy and cost so little. I could probably work on a plan ahead of time so we know what we are looking at instead of just jumping into like I do so well.