(this picture has absolutely nothing to do with this post)

I really would love it if someone would buy my house, so then I would not have to worry about it when we move.

When we put it up with a realtor, I was not happy about paying her 6% and then another 1% to Derry Township. (she was so encouraging though and we thought our house would sell fairly quickly) However I do not have time to sell a home on my own...or do I? At this point the realtor says people are offering $a certain amount less than the list price. If we take $that certain amount less we will not even cover what is owed on our mortgage, after we pay the fees. We have given up on getting back what we put into the house. Apparently the advice of you will get back the money you spent on a kitchen and bath is not true in "this economy" (I am a wee bit tired of hearing that phrase everywhere).

If we would have rented a house we would not have gotten our great tax refunds for the last few years though and would have had to worry about the kids breaking things. When you own the home if your kids break it you can choose to ignore it and paint it however you want. We did paint our rental house living room RED in our last house, it was worth not getting our deposit back.

enough of the negative nonsense... the little monsters are playing nicely together. baby Maggie is so much fun now, she is kind of on a schedule and sleeps nicely in her crib for most of the night, and she giggles and it is very very precious (and now I sound like one of those annoying bragger moms, but she is cute). I have gotten rid of a bunch of stuff that I will not need to move. Today is the day for my weekly philosophy microdermabrasion, the kids are having less homework as the school year ends so they can just play outside, Sam's skin icky gross stuff is getting kind of better, and until tonight I am caught up on the laundry.