Do you ever start dreaming about moving into a different house? Even though I like my house, there are quite a few days where I wish we could move into something with a little better of a lay out. When we bought this house I liked the open layout where the kitchen, dinning room and living room were all one big room with no dividers.   Now that we have lived here for 8 years I’m thinking differently.  I’m still thankful that we have the 3 bedrooms together on the main floor so when the kids yell for me in the middle of the night I might here them.   (I tend to sleep quite soundly)  I just wish the bathroom would of been between our bedroom and the living room as those two rooms share the same wall and with Paul working 3pm-1am, it makes it quite hard to keep the kids quiet in the morning so he can sleep. 

I ended up finding a house that has the floor plan I think I would like.  Granted it’s out in the country so we no longer would have city water and I’m sure would end up having to look at water softeners someday, but to be able to also have the piece and quiet of no neighbors nearby would be heavenly!    Thankfully our current neighbors are great neighbors, no loud parties at all hours of the night, they keep their yards up and they don’t let their kids run around like Indians where they get into trouble.   But there are just the days where I wish I could go outside with Kevin & Katie where we could enjoy the outdoor just the 3 of us by ourselves without all the other kids coming over to play or at least feel like we are being watched.

I don’t know if I feel that way just because I did grow up in the country and was used to having more privacy, but that’s one thing I still haven’t gotten used to.  Maybe someday we will end up finding our dream house in our price range where we wouldn’t have to take another mortgage out and it could be more an even swap for our house.   Hey… a girl can dream right??