We bought a house last night.
This will be our 4th house in 10 years. I know…I know…we are serial movers. The thought of actually moving makes me cringe. We only moved into our current house just under 2 years ago.
Beautiful house. Beautiful neighbourhood.
But it never felt like home.
Soooo…we sold our big, beautiful home with a gigantic backyard in February and bought a house in our old neighbourhood. Smaller house. Smaller yard.
(We’ll be shaving a ton off our mortgage – so that makes me feel better about shaving a bunch off our backyard)
I suppose the main reason to move was that we are on flex boundaries for the school in the current house. We were told back in the fall that it is not guaranteed that Eva will get in once she starts kindergarten in 2011 because the school is nearing capacity.
I won’t split the kids up. And Cuyler cannot – CANNOT – move schools. I LOVE the school they go to. Small school, wonderful staff, great kids.
Cuyler really has a “place” there. He is well known and well liked.
A bonus to moving back there is that the neighbourhood knows Cuyler. When we moved into our old house, I was pregnant with him. The adults on the street watched him grow up, as he grew up with their kids. It wasn’t always easy seeing all the other kids meet their milestones and develop beyond what Cuyler did. But it made those blows a little easier knowing that he was always included and had a special place in the neighbourhood.
He evolved with the rest of them and he found a spot there among them. The kids would try and include him. They would modify their games to allow him to play at the level he could. Nobody told them to. They just did it. They didn’t judge him for being different, or exclude him because he was different.
The parents are patient with him. They put up with all of his questions and always answer them with a smile.
I drive them to school every day. In the next place, we’ll be able to walk/ride bikes to school.
I feel safe over there knowing that at any given time of day there will be a bunch of friends for Cam to play with, there are a bunch of little girls from the school who just dote on Eva and a great big group of kids who will be there to welcome Cuyler into their world – even though he may not always be in it.
One other thing – the boys want to share a room with bunk beds, so I suspect we’ll be seeing alot more of this. They’ve never shared a room – hopefully it works out.
Do your kids share a bedroom? How’s it working out for you? Them?
Where is this utopian neighbourhood? It seriously sounds like a the greatest place on earth! I’m considering moving again as well – will be the 4th in 8 years – your real estate agent must love you as much as mine does me. Sounds like the total right move!!!
Congratulations AGAIN! 😉
Keigan and Molly started sharing a room last summer…it started with them having sleep overs and then moved to an every night thing. We decided to move them officially into the same room because it free’d up another room as a “playroom” and we needed the space! The girls love it…most nights we find them in the same bed together…it has worked out great for us! I am sure the boys will love it too! Especially bunkbed…tres cool! 🙂
Hello Christine I LOVE YOUR POSTS! We have a 5 bedroom house and my kids 6 and 8 boy and girl sleep together EVERY NIGHT! That is actually how we got them to start doing their chores! If there chores are done they sleep together if not no sleeping together! It will be different but life with kids is different and challanging everyday! I am excited for your new adventure and the new house is BEAUTIFUL!! XOXOX L
Serial movers? We have lived in 10 homes in 11 years! We’ve only had to do one school change though, so the kids love the adventure of a new house, while everything else in their life stays stable.
My son and daugther shared a room from ages 5 and 2 until they were 8 and 6. Actually, the still share a room at their dad’s house. Our only problem was that neither one wanted to sleep on the top bunk! We did let them switch often to keep it fair, but everyone was much happier in a house where the bunkbeds could be split in 2 single beds.
Good luck to your family, it sounds like you’ve made a great decision! Moving sucks, but it’s nice to start fresh.
Our kids have always shared rooms. It actually works out ok for the most part. For now. When they are teenagers? I think it will be a different story. But I can tell it’s working, because a while back our youngest girl wouldn’t sleep in her bed, she wanted to sleep with us. My older daughter was so upset because she didn’t have, in her words, “a friend to sleep with”. (yeah, my heart melted.)
We just got our boys bunk beds. I highly recommend the kind we got, because they are sturdy, and the way they are set up, makes it hard to jump from the top bunk, which was important to me. And the bonus is it has a small built in dresser! We got these: http://tinyurl.com/y3mspyv
My ASD boy loves them because the bottom bunk has a magazine rack too, and he can keep all his favorite books in there that he looks at to put himself to sleep each night.
/random infomercial from me about bunkbeds.