buy this house

http://www.realestate.com/axx/applications/cob/asp/NSHomeView.asp?homeid=22564534

our home has been been on the market for about a month. we've had nine showings, and one repeat, maybe two, if you count the guy (realtor) who approached me in the driveway to "preview" our house for his clients. it's a soft market. our realtor told us to expect 4 to 5 months. there are a lot of homes on the market in our area. statistically, only 10 percent sold last year. we can't move until the end of June, giving the Peanut about a month outside my belly. or maybe i'm just making myself feel better.

we're taking a trip up North next weekend to look at homes. we are not is a position to buy, as el Jefe' and i are too conservative to carry 3 mortgages. i've downloaded maybe 50 properties. we've shortlisted something like 15 to view between Friday and Sunday afternoon. the more i look, and the more i stay here, the more i love this house.

it's not perfect. i used to say it was too big for us, although we had room to grow, and we didn't plan on growing, and we didn't grow until we'd been here 7 years. i'd like another bedroom now that Peanut is on the way, but as coincidence would have it, we're relocating 450 miles away so eventually we might have that extra bedroom. it has a wonderful open floor plan. it has a separate dining/living room, which i never thought i'd want, but it's great for a dining room table for holiday dinners, buffets at parties, and a little escape from the kitchen/family room (translation: another place to store Punkin's toys). it has a view. it has a fireplace and jetted tub in the master, and we put in a pool and hot tub, and have spent every year cultivating our back yard.

i'm holding out a little hope that when Punkin (and Peanut) and i move up North, it won't be to a two bedroom apartment with two dogs. there's still time.