Karen is going CRAZY!!!!!

So, I've been up since 4:20 am. I finally decided to give up and try to blog myself to sleep. :)

We went to look at houses (yet again) yesterday. The house we were looking at looked better with stuff in it. I still really liked it though. Although Jon thought of a new problem. The downstairs looked perfect to me...of course that's because I'm 5'3". Jon, however, being 6'2" decided that if we have enough children to fill the house (I hope so, but we'll see) our system would have to be tall kids on the top 2 levels and short kids on the bottom or he's certain that the children will be living with chronic back pain for the rest of their lives. Only one room, I think, would do that to the children and lets be serious, the children have my genes in them too...we're bound to have one short child...although the first two don't look very promising on the "short gene" theory. :P Plus, the funny floorboards in one of the downstairs bedrooms, turns out the realtor (not ours, it was theirs) lied. He/She told our realtors that it was just "crappy construction" (Which made me a little iffy anyway because the entire house was rebuilt in 2002 (minus the foundation) and I'm assuming that they had the same contractors build the entire house. Buuuuuuttttt, when Jon asked the owner about it (they were in the process of moving while we were there) and the owner said that the room flooded a while ago....hmmmm, I wonder who's telling the truth? I think I will take the owner's side on that one. Stupid, lying realtor...although his story didn't sound much better either. So, it turns out that since they are already moving and having to sell it for less than they owe on it, the bank has to approve any lower offer, and seriously... And to add to that, someone put an offer on the house. So our realtors said that if we want the house it would be a good idea to put in an offer. The people who made the offer told the owners, the owners came back with another offer and they haven't heard back. But I talked to Jon and I told him that if this was a $20 or even maybe a $100-$200 purchase I would probably rush the decision and if I decided later that it wasn't such a good decision we would be out some money...but $139,900 is a little different than $20. If we rush it and it's a bad decision, you're just kind of stuck with it. Plus, since the owners aren't making any money on it anyway they are just going to let it go into foreclosure and they aren't planning on fixing anything. I told Jon that if we got the house, the first thing we would have to do is put some plywood or something over the pet door because Chris would escape in the middle of the night. Sure enough first thing he did when he saw that was try and climb out of it.

The other houses that we saw were nice too though. (Sorry, I forgot my camera and we still haven't been able to hook up our scanner, so no pics). There was one I kind of liked, but it only has 5 bedrooms and 2048 sq. feet and 2 bathrooms, all of which would not be a problem but that means (compared to the house on Park) we get 2 less rooms, almost 1,000 square feet less and 1 less bathroom...all for only $10,000 more. (That was with a sarcastic tone, just FYI). And yes, I did say MORE, otherwise I would be thinking about it way more. Of course it was within walking distance of the elementary school which means a TON more child molestors. That's what I've noticed while looking at houses (and it scares me to DEATH!) When you go to familywatchdog.net (I think it's .net) to check for the child molestors/rapists/"other" offenders you can usually tell EXACTLY where the bounderies are for the "you can't live this close to schools" are. There will be the school and then a really really little circle around the school and then a TON of child molesters all within a block or 2 or 3 of all the other ones. It's rediculous! Why do they get to live even that close? I would also like to know the nature of the crime. Because if it was an 18 year old that got "caught" by their 17 years and 300 days old girlfriend's parents who just were not so pleased so they thought they would ruin that boys life...I would not worry so much about that. But all that is a completely different story altogether.

My next favorite house was a 5 bedroom 2 bathroom house. The master bedroom was really 2 bedrooms but they wanted a bigger room, so they just knocked the wall down in between the 2 rooms. And the laundry room was really big...you know you're a house wife when you get as excited as I did about a LAUNDRY ROOM! :) hehehe. It has a really big deck and we would need to add a small piece of fence to make the whole back yard fenced in. (If I remember right) this house was on a quiet street too, not much traffic. So we could teach the kids to ride bikes in the middle of the road like you're supposed to do. That one was only $135,000.

So we are just going to wait and pray. If any of those houses are meant to be for us, then they will be there when we make a decision and are ready to start the "house buying process". Which is rapidly losing all the glamor it had at first. We are still looking for houses in Inkom. We still kind of liked the one that we saw with a GINORMOUS back yard, but for now we will pray about where we will be the happiest and go from there.

Wow, this has to be the longest blog I've ever written. Good job Ranee' now I'm never going to write in my journal again...I'm telling the prophet that it's all your fault. ;)