Here are my thoughts on the new plan for the move. We will talk to the in-laws and make sure that we can move all of our stuff in and make the home our own while we live there for 18 months. I do not like the home much nor the decorating style and it would make a big difference to me if we had all of our stuff and little of theirs. If we are on the same page I am thinking of starting my son in the school by my in-laws. My hubby would drive him and then after school he would walk to the in-laws home (literally three houses down) and wait for 1-1 ½ hours before hubby picked him up on the way home from work. We would have to do this for four months. He would do homework or play with new friends in the neighborhood. That is my new idea. (Does that sound doable to anyone who has had kids in all day school or taught school? We are new at this and feel like we are treading on new soil.) We would be able to save about $10,000 extra dollars to put on a home that we will stay in for quite awhile, HOPEFULLY. This would also give us time to know how my hubby’s new business was going. In two years from now we should know for sure which direction business is going. Another thing to add is that many people are saying that the market value here has peaked or will soon and then will go down. It might be a good time to sell our current house and wait for the market to go down.
My husband takes care of all of our yard needs as well as our garden. The one thing he hasn't touched is a little piece of dirt in front of our house that is supposed to be for flowers. It has had tons of weeds growing there. We have had a couple of overcast days where the temperature hasn't been in the 100's and so I took it upon myself to weed. What a workout! It was so much fun though. There was a little bit of rain falling, my boys played in the dirt after I removed the weeds and they were completley content most of the morning. The cats even joined in and had a ball chasing bugs, spiders or anything else that moved. I can't wait to finish it off and get some beautiful flowers growing. I have never done anything like this before and I'm quite excited. Off to Wal-Mart to pick some flowers. We'll see what I end up with. I'm not even sure what any flower names are. Here goes nothing.
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A question came up for me. How comfortable will your MIL be with storing her stuff? I understand that you want to make the home your own, but isn't the plan for them to move back in after 18 months? This adds work and expense to the equation. The school plan sounds reasonable, assuming your MIL wants the responsibility of a five-day a week visit after school.
How are you?
The thought of moving with 3 little ones would be stressing me out.
Emily (GatewayDreamer...Lessons, Thoughts, and Dreams on the Beck site)
Those are great questions. At first I leaned toward moving into mil house to help them out, but like you mentioned, would moving all their stuff help them out and paying for a storage each month and then having to move everything back in? I don't think so. Plus the normal wear little ones put on a house. There are no toys in their backyard. Nothing for little ones to do there, not even a fence to keep them secure. My hubby says that they have thought through all of this and they want us in the house - maybe they are trying to help us. Anyway, in-laws are in England right now and will be back August 4th and I think we will go out to dinner with them and talk it all over. I think they haven't thought it all through. We could still mow the lawn and check on the house if we didn't live in the house, especially if we lived closer.
I think your point about a grandchild EVERY single afternoon is a good one. I will have to run it past them. So many things to do and all before school starts in three weeks. Yikes.
Yes, I'm stressed. I think of this all the time. I appreciate that you care enough to ask. :)
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