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The amount of sleep lost over the past 6 days is piling up. As if getting up every hour to pee due to my estimated 5-pound daughter "resting" on my bladder wasn't enough, the emotional stress of deciding what to do over a house we saw last week is taking it's toll. B and I saw a fantastic home. It reminds us so much of where we live now - the large amount of natural light, hardwood floors throughout, aesthetically pleasing paint color selection (okay, so we only painted one wall in our current house a contrast color upon the advice of our creative architect friend CA, but if we had the energy and, well, just the energy, we would choose a similar color palette that we saw used in the sought-after property for our current abode), new kitchen, finished basement, slated breezeway/mudroom...it is the perfect place for our next move...well, almost...
The drawbacks? First off, it only has three bedrooms...there goes the idea that our parents and any other visitors could have a room to call their own when they came to stay with us. It only has 1.5 baths, and it does not have the desired "Great Room" that we would like for entertaining. The heating system is radiator heat, and the cooling system, as they call it, consists of AC units on rolling wheels that you can pull out of the closets (oh, the closet space is limited, and by limited, I mean if the AC unit is in a bedroom closet, you had better have a large dresser, because your clothes would not have a place to live) and hook up to a "vent" (read: hole cut into the walls by current owner, covered with a make-shift plastic disk).
So basically we would need to add central air if I ever wanted to hear the end of how hot it is in the house in the summer...B loves to throw out an exact temperature reading for the house whenever it is not to his liking...thanks to my brother J and his Christmas gift from a few years back, B is able to look at the indoor/outdoor digital temp readout mounted prominently on the wall for affirmation for how his skin feels...
The positives? A fenced-in back yard. A driveway with a garage and two parking spots outside. A fantastic neighborhood. Close proximity to J, D, AW and AM, as well as a slew of other friends. Easy access to the highway (B's commute to work), and a short trip to the center of town. Close to the commuter rail. A third bedroom (better than what we have now). The price is right.
This is such a hard decision. B and I love the spring/summer in Boston. After battling through a crappy winter, I feel like we are owed all of the wonders that living so close to the city has to offer. Access to the Charles for walks and runs, a walk to Fenway Park for games, impromptu weeknight playdates with our close friends S and T and their kids W and L who live right down the street...those plusses alone make me want to bypass this option to buy and suck up loving in a two-bedroom for at least the summer, if not for the next year. But in the same breath, the desired house is the first we've seen that we really could imagine ourselves living in, and it wouldn't force us to eat hotdogs in the process. We could easily get our place on the market, and head out to the 'burbs if we can come to an agreement on price with the current owners of the "new" place.
Where does that leave us? We haven't seen anything on the market that compares to this place at anywhere near this price. Do we keep in hot, flaming pursuit of this opportunity, or do we stop, drop and roll away?
Sigh. Even after venting on "paper," I am no closer to a decision than I was before. My mind is flooded with thoughts around just welcoming our second child into our home, but where will that home be? Only time will tell.
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