House Hunting

A few weeks ago we found out that our landlord wants to sell the town home that we are renting right now, so when our lease is up in mid-April, we need a new place to live.  We knew that the end of our lease was coming up, but we were hoping to just extend it until December and then move to Dallas.  That plan, of course, was all contingent upon P finishing up his PhD by December and finding a lab in Dallas to work in for 5 months before jumping back into medical school.  So, as the saying goes: best laid plans of mice and men often go awry...

We are now house hunting once again in the Houston area and it is brutal every.single.time.  As The Hubs put it, the Real Estate Dilemma: Size and niceness, location (safety in this case), affordability. Pick two.  We have not found anything in our current neighborhood that meets our needs, and we are sad that we will most likely have to leave the area.  The biggest problem with that is the fact that Gray's daycare is really close to that neighborhood, and everywhere else that we're looking makes his daycare out of the way.  It would make me really sad to pull him out of that daycare, they are so nice and the curriculum is pretty special (hello, mandarin! spanish! sign language!).  His current place is also quite affordable, and I don't know that we would find something better out there.  


All of this to say, we went house hunting this weekend and looked at four different properties.  We were able to cut one off of our list because of its location, and another one because of its price and large lawn.  That leaves us with two possibilities from this weekend, one town home in walking distance of P's lab, and one house that is closer to his lab as well, although it doesn't have a washer and dryer, so we would have to figure out what to do about that.  The house comes with lawn service, so we wouldn't have to worry about taking care of the yard and it would be really nice to be able to put Jackson out back in the mornings instead of walking him.  Decisions, decisions!

We want to try to make a decision by March 1 and start moving out of our place mid-March.  This will allow our landlord to get her property on the market faster, and get us out of having to keep the place clean for showings.  

And now, for the real reason everyone stops by...

I like to call this one "Breakfast in bed"

Jack really thought he was going to get some...he probably did, let's be honest.

    Can you believe G-bug is FIVE months old today?!  We've got to have a photo shoot tonight.