Onward and Upward

I didn't have any work today so I decided to stay home and play with Ada. I thought it would be a good use of time to update you with what has been going on in the Reese household, and post some cute pictures of Ada of course. Hopefully this post will explain some of the absence of new posts.

Jennie and I never seem to sit still for long. I wouldn't really think of us as active people, but we are rarely idle in life and always seem to move from one project or endeavor to the next. Recently that has meant shopping for a new house. Every since Ada has been born it has been very clear to us that our current residence was not going to work for very long. It is a mere 800 something square feet big, and is not located in a great neighborhood for families. It was fine when it was just Jennie and I. It is centrally located, cheap, and requires virtually no maintenance. But we are a family now and we wanted more for Ada, like a nice yard to play in, a good school to go to, and room for a little brother or sister. The only real reason not to move is that we, like nearly everyone else in America were upside-down  on our current mortgage a fact that had haunted us for months as we lay awake at night trying to find a solution to get out of it. Finally I urged Jennie to at least call a real-estate agent to find out what our options were. To Our surprise he informed us that we were in a great position to get a new house and be able to rent our condo, thereby saving our credit and even protecting our chance of one day cashing in on some equity from it. We couldn't be more thrilled, at first...

It had been quite some time since we had been house shopping, and we were quite excited to dive right in. Our constant diet of HGTV had led us to believe the whole process would be a lot of fun. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of house hunting will know that we were very mistaken. I will spare you the details and just say that we have been at the Six Flags of emotional roller coasters over the past few months. After many failed attempts though we are very close to closing on our new home!