SylvanTrails New Home

We are now tenants in our old house…it now belongs to FIL. All of the property swaps have been done, the loan is in place, the house has been contracted and is being built at the factory, and the foundation is in place. I need to post pictures of the property before the foundation was put in and after, but I don’t have them on this computer, so it will have to wait.

The house gets delivered later this week, weather permitting, and then they do the finish work on it, and on the property. Things like putting the new septic tank in, the electricity to the new house, removing the water lines to the OLD house, etc. The scrub brush on the septic field needs to be gotten rid of and a low growing…something… needs to be put in. Hubby wants clover. We’ll see what happens.

We’re making progress on the packing. We rented a Pack Rat (a competitor to PODS) and we’re filling it up. Once it is full and we’re ready to move, we’ll get it picked up at our current house and moved to the new place and then unload it there.

Tentative move date is mid-March.

I’ve included a copy of the final floor plans, just so you can get an idea of the layout of the new house. Pretty spiffy and just what WE want.

Final Floor Plan–SylvanTrails

Hubby started a new job in January. With his old job, we were driving into work as a family, I’d drop him off at his office, my two boys at my mother’s (she takes care of them while we work), and then go to work myself. In all, it would take me about 50 minutes to get to work, my hubby’s commute was about 25…and we’d get to spend the time hanging out as a family, discussing whatever needed to be discussed.

Now, we’re driving separate cars, BOTH of our commutes are in the 30-40 minute time-frame, and, in general, it’s not as much fun. Also, in general, currently we are at least 10 minutes, usually 20 or more, from everything…shopping, church, family, tae kwon do, life.

Our current house is a nice house. It is just under 2000 sq.ft., an open floor plan ranch, with nice, big rooms for everyone. It is smack dab in the middle of 4 1/2 acres of land and is, in general, a pretty nice house. It does have a couple of drawbacks…the closet space leaves more to be desired than you would think from looking at it and there is no attic. None. Zilch, zip, nada…not even any way to access the area between the ceiling and the roof. But, all in all, it is a NICE house and I originally didn’t want to move.

However, with the new job, we realize just how far from everything we want to do we are. Now, for some people, that may not be a problem. But, for us, it is. I LIKE coming home at a decent hour and fixing home-cooked dinners. I like coming home and relaxing…heck, I like coming home at a decent hour, period. So, I told my husband that, if we needed to move, it would have to be into a very special house.

Originally, I had the thought of moving to a particular neighborhood, one that would put me within biking distance of my work and my mother’s house and my husband a lot closer to his work than he his now. But, after thinking on it for a while, we realized that we wouldn’t like living in town because we are used to the quiet of the country where we live. So, we kind of put the moving idea on the back burner, until….