Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Family Planning

While I've been sewing or cutting or cooking for Husband, I've been watching a lot of HGTV. This, in turn, means that Husband has been watching a lot of HGTV with me. The not-so-scary-but-should-be-scary thing that has come from this is we've been looking into houses to buy in our area.

Now, we've brought up the buy-a-house conversation before, but at the time, we were NO WHERE near ready to even consider it. I think it is because we've really had time to work on this house, and again, watch a lot of HGTV that we've started to seriously think about it.

Which brings up the idea of family planning.

To me, a house symbolizes permanence. It is settlement. So, when looking online at houses in our area, we realized that we really could probably pull off a mortgage payment and still get a house that we could grow into. Grow into, as in, have kids in.

In the online home search, you can type in number of bedrooms and number of bathrooms. Husband thinks we need at least two bedrooms to start with, if not three. We want a yard for a dog, trees in the yard to provide fun and shade, and we've even considered proximity to shopping and school districts for our future kids.

Am I really this old?

Am I really old enough to start thinking about a house, pets, kids, school districts, taxes, and planning my life around how close the grocery store is?


I guess I am.




And I love it. I also love it that Husband is excited about it all too.

1 comment:

stillarockstar said...

After working in education for so many years, I have a general idea of what districts are good...hit me up if you have questions & have fun "planning"! :)