What's Been Happening

We have had a pretty busy past few weeks. Jonathan has been working away and is home at the moment but it looks like he will be leaving again next week. It's not ideal having him gone, we all hate it, but the money is really good so we figure it's just a short term sacrifice in order to get ahead a bit.

We have also been doing some house hunting over the past few weeks. We found one that we were really excited about. It had all the rooms we were after, 10mins from a major shopping centre and movie complex, 15mins from the beach, on a big block, close to the freeway and train station and, since it was a bank repo it was quite cheap at $215,000. There was a lot of cosmetic work to be done on the inside, which also gave it a lot of potential to increase the value. When we researched it we found that, with all the cosmetic work done, we could resell it for at least $300,000. We were just on our way to the real estate agent office to put in an offer when she called us and told us that someone had already beat us to it. So now we are back to the drawing board. We have found another potential house we are looking at, which isn't in such a great location and also needs a lot of work doing on it cosmetically. It is on a big block and has a swimming pool in the back yard. They are asking $249,000 but, with all the cosmetic work that needs doing, we don't really think it is worth that. We have decided to go ahead and put in an offer (a pretty low offer) but we are not really expecting to get it accepted. We won't be too disappointed if it doesn't.

So with all the house hunting, Jonathan coming and going and everything else going on we haven't really had much time to think about this baby that will very soon be here. I'm afraid it has completely snuck up on me and I am completely unprepared. We still have no idea what the sex is but we have another appointment on Thursday, so we will hopefully find out then.