I can't believe how quickly time seems to be flying by. My baby girl is already over 15 months old and my husband and I are talking about having baby #2. All of that seems so crazy to me! The past few months have been busy and we seem to have lots going on right now.
Steve and I have been discussing the timing of having baby #2. Ultimately we would love to get pregnant on our own without the help of a fertility doctor, but we are also pretty realistic in the fact that this will probably not happen. So baby #2 is going to cost us some money, money that we have a limited supply of since I am not working. But before we have another baby, I want a bigger house. I love our little house, but that's the problem, it's little. We have three bedrooms, so that would be fine for a second baby, but currently this bedroom is full of stuff: my scrapbooking and craft stuff, extra toys we have for our older nieces and nephews, and just stuff. In order to use this room for a baby, I need to find a place for all of this stuff to go. It can go in the attic, but then it basically become unusable. I can put it downstairs, but we already have so much stuff in our living room and the tip out that it really won't fit there. Plus, this is stuff that I don't want to leave out where little fingers can touch and play with it.
Another problem we have is that our living room is too small for all of Grace's toys. Some of them have spilled out into the dining room now. And we can't take down the dining room table and stuff to make that room a play room because then we would have no real place to eat. Our kitchen isn't an eat in kitchen and sitting on bar stools at the counter doesn't really work as a viable option. Basically - we need more space!! and storage.
We have decided that it makes the most sense to put our current house on the market and purchase a new house that is bigger and allows our family to grow. Once we have the new house, then we can make decisions about when to see our RE to use our frozen embryos. That is of course, if we don't somehow manage to miraculously get pregnant all on our own. Which is certainly something we are going to try to do. It might happen, for the first time in my life I have been having regular periods. That's something I never thought would happen, so that's one positive.
Our life the past few weeks has been consumed with packing up all of our clutter and organizing our rooms to maximize their size and appeal to buyers. We've also been working on some projects in the house like replacing our broken mirror in the upstairs bathroom and painting scuffed places on our walls. I still need to work on painting all of our trim and the upstairs bedroom doors. When Steve comes home on his next set of days off we are going to work on our basement and he will hopefully get a few outdoor projects completed (as long as the snow and cold weather don't get in the way). Our goal is to be on the market for March 1.
Until then I have been browsing homes online and looking forward to finally house hunting. We are also planning to meet with a builder next week to see what our options are for possibly building a house. I don't think building is the way we will go, but Steve wants to check it out and I figure it can't hurt to look at all of our options. I'm sure the next few months are going to be eventful as we try to sell our house and buy a new one with a toddler. But I'm excited about the possibilities and finding our forever home, especially because once we have a home, we can work on the plan for having another baby and that is even more exciting to me.
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