So tired already of looking through house listings. I wish my heart was in this more, but to tell you the truth I am not loving the idea of a mortgage. I may see a home I love, but then the idea of a home loan creeps in and totally spoils the romance of the house for me.
Besides - a home is a commitment, you know? For Brian and myself with our budding family, we need to select our location carefully.
Family=important. Work=important. Sure, we don't know where we'll end up career wise, but I am due for a salary increase and so is Brian. Plus, we currently work at a hospital that still gives pensions (and a money maker like a very large hospital is not likely to go out of business or run out of pension money). Both perks to staying at our current work location...not to mention Brian is comfortable working with the patient population he has, and I absolutely love my floor and the people I work with.
My mother doesn't see the need for Brian and I to live closer to our jobs, because of her own, strange idiosyncrasies. My family factors in a little heavier, because they provide necessary child care for the babe, soon to be babies. Child care is expensive for you people without kids - like - it's premium. I would love to be a stay at home mom, but since I decided to go to school and take out school loans, it's only fair that I take a job and pay them back, wouldn't you say? :) Word to the wise - don't go to a school that you cannot pay cash for. Trust me on this one, and you'll be thanking me to the bank...
Anyway, this whole house thing wouldn't be bugging me so much except for the fact that we NEED a house. Right now we have two bedrooms, 1200 square feet, a daughter and a baby boy on the way. Sure, junior will be in with mommy and daddy for a few months, and if push comes to shove, we can squeeze him into his sister's room (she'll be 16 months when he's born...also of note is that unless they changed the laws here in PA, it's illegal for a boy and girl to share a bedroom...of course, how can they possible regulate that?)...but how is THAT going to work?
Brian has a small room to work on his guns and inventions - I don't have anyplace to keep my sewing machine out except for the kitchen, which is nice, but small enough as it is, and baby girl gets into everything! Her room is small, no place for all her toys and books. Storage space? Forget about it! I have to bath Tatum in the sink because our tub is a huge whirlpool that would be impossible to bath a baby in (and she hates showers).
I mean, this space works for now, and if we had to, we could make it work for a long time.....but it's not like living in another country, and it's not practical for us. Then again, I am thinking neither is getting a home loan!
Call it what you want, but buying a house isn't an "investment" in the financial sense of the word. Familial wise, of course it's an investment, and a huge reason I want a house/home.
Brian and I just need discernment. I am trusting that if/when the timing is right God will put forth the perfect specimen that Brian and I both feel is right, and that He'll take care of the price tag.
Right now it's daunting. I need a house break. lol.
Besides - a home is a commitment, you know? For Brian and myself with our budding family, we need to select our location carefully.
Family=important. Work=important. Sure, we don't know where we'll end up career wise, but I am due for a salary increase and so is Brian. Plus, we currently work at a hospital that still gives pensions (and a money maker like a very large hospital is not likely to go out of business or run out of pension money). Both perks to staying at our current work location...not to mention Brian is comfortable working with the patient population he has, and I absolutely love my floor and the people I work with.
My mother doesn't see the need for Brian and I to live closer to our jobs, because of her own, strange idiosyncrasies. My family factors in a little heavier, because they provide necessary child care for the babe, soon to be babies. Child care is expensive for you people without kids - like - it's premium. I would love to be a stay at home mom, but since I decided to go to school and take out school loans, it's only fair that I take a job and pay them back, wouldn't you say? :) Word to the wise - don't go to a school that you cannot pay cash for. Trust me on this one, and you'll be thanking me to the bank...
Anyway, this whole house thing wouldn't be bugging me so much except for the fact that we NEED a house. Right now we have two bedrooms, 1200 square feet, a daughter and a baby boy on the way. Sure, junior will be in with mommy and daddy for a few months, and if push comes to shove, we can squeeze him into his sister's room (she'll be 16 months when he's born...also of note is that unless they changed the laws here in PA, it's illegal for a boy and girl to share a bedroom...of course, how can they possible regulate that?)...but how is THAT going to work?
Brian has a small room to work on his guns and inventions - I don't have anyplace to keep my sewing machine out except for the kitchen, which is nice, but small enough as it is, and baby girl gets into everything! Her room is small, no place for all her toys and books. Storage space? Forget about it! I have to bath Tatum in the sink because our tub is a huge whirlpool that would be impossible to bath a baby in (and she hates showers).
I mean, this space works for now, and if we had to, we could make it work for a long time.....but it's not like living in another country, and it's not practical for us. Then again, I am thinking neither is getting a home loan!
Call it what you want, but buying a house isn't an "investment" in the financial sense of the word. Familial wise, of course it's an investment, and a huge reason I want a house/home.
Brian and I just need discernment. I am trusting that if/when the timing is right God will put forth the perfect specimen that Brian and I both feel is right, and that He'll take care of the price tag.
Right now it's daunting. I need a house break. lol.
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