This has come up suddenly for us though the idea has been tossed around for the last two years. We love our home and especially our yard and have put time, effort and money into making it a great place. We were so blessed to find this house our first week of moving here in January of 2006.
We've considered moving to find a slightly larger home so we can actually have a guest room with a real bed to accommodate the many visitors we have. At the moment they either sleep on the floor or at someone else's house (=
So after much thought and prayer and checking of internet speed (a must since Tom would move his office back to the house) we are trying to find the landlord to give our final yes. This is not as easy as you'd think, but we are hopeful (= We already have the keys and hope to manage the cleaners and painters that he promised. There was an American family with seven kids in there before so somethings are well set up and others are just well, dirty and well used (=
In the midst of all the thinking of arranging and sorting out where we'd put stuff, our fridge is acting a bit wonky, our stove was out of gas for two days and Tom had to go to SIX stores to find a tiny rubber piece, our main ac has only worked about 3 days in a row and our washing machine stopped working mid-June. This is the calm BEFORE the storm I keep telling myself (= Tom and I have already had several conversations about trying to seriously lower our expectations of how the move will go. Moving during the summer is bad enough and doing it during Ramadan is really stupid but if we are going to sublet our current house we need to be out in August even though Tom will be for 5 days and then we'll all be gone for 10 days (= Fun fun fun.
Our current plan for "success" will be to only hire people between about 9pm and 1am (= Kids will be sleeping (potentially), it won't be as hot and folks won't be fasting....hence they will actually sort of work.
We've considered moving to find a slightly larger home so we can actually have a guest room with a real bed to accommodate the many visitors we have. At the moment they either sleep on the floor or at someone else's house (=
So after much thought and prayer and checking of internet speed (a must since Tom would move his office back to the house) we are trying to find the landlord to give our final yes. This is not as easy as you'd think, but we are hopeful (= We already have the keys and hope to manage the cleaners and painters that he promised. There was an American family with seven kids in there before so somethings are well set up and others are just well, dirty and well used (=
In the midst of all the thinking of arranging and sorting out where we'd put stuff, our fridge is acting a bit wonky, our stove was out of gas for two days and Tom had to go to SIX stores to find a tiny rubber piece, our main ac has only worked about 3 days in a row and our washing machine stopped working mid-June. This is the calm BEFORE the storm I keep telling myself (= Tom and I have already had several conversations about trying to seriously lower our expectations of how the move will go. Moving during the summer is bad enough and doing it during Ramadan is really stupid but if we are going to sublet our current house we need to be out in August even though Tom will be for 5 days and then we'll all be gone for 10 days (= Fun fun fun.
Our current plan for "success" will be to only hire people between about 9pm and 1am (= Kids will be sleeping (potentially), it won't be as hot and folks won't be fasting....hence they will actually sort of work.
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