We hit the ground running and began looking for houses as soon as we woke up Thursday morning.  We have now survived-just barely-4 solid days of house hunting.  We chose to avoid the very very expensive storage option for our stuff and have to find a home before our truck gets here on Saturday.  Thus the mad rush to find a house.  We have seen a grand total of 26 homes.  Some were so frightening and smelled so horrible I could barely bring myself to walk inside them.  Some were beautiful in a not so beautiful place and some were not so beautiful (yuck!) in a very beautiful setting.  It’s been really hard to make the decision because of that!  Some had closets that were made into bathrooms so that should you want to, you could go to the bathroom AND use the sink to brush your teeth at the same time!  Most were either too old and yucky, too small, though new, or too big and expensive.  And NONE had garbage disposals!  Sigh.  I’m going to truly suffer here I can tell.  On a good note though, we are zeroing in on a  house in a beautiful town called Berkeley Heights about an hour west of NY.  The streets are lined with trees and the houses all have shutters on them- MY DREAM TOWN!  I’ll post more on that as we make progress there.

The boys have been very cooperative and good tempered about spending the last 4 days looking at houses.  For which we are very grateful!  But they are indeed bouncing off the walls when they are not strapped into the car. (So we keep them strapped in as much as possible)  Unfortunately, there are no straps in our temporary housing-a Residence Inn room with a kitchenette and two bedrooms with a living room area.   There’s only so much you can do with 3 small boys in a small hotel room.  So far they have passed the time jumping on the beds, setting up obstacle courses to jump over and onto the couch and they run from one bedroom to the other yelling like wild Indians.   I’m quite sure that the people above, below, and next door to us are ready to tear their hair out-I sure am.  🙂   I keep waiting for someone from the front desk to call and say they’ve had complaints.   But we are grinning and bearing it.  Ok, just bearing it.  I will be honest and say that patience is wearing very thin.  Hopefully we won’t all end up killing each other before this week is through. 

Stay tuned.