Home Sweet Hot Home

It's nice to be home. I sinned today with food (and yesterday and the yesterday before that). Tomorrow will be a new, better, gluten/dairy/peanut-free day.

I don't have the amount for Sunday, but for Monday she had about 12 oz of formula from a bottle and 5 oz of orange juice/milk out of a sippy. Tuesday she had 16 oz & 5 oz out of sippy. All in all, not too bad. And she had a good amount of solids. We've been putting Simply Thick in her bottles. We haven't noticed a huge difference yet, but I guess we'll keep doing it.

It is scorching hot. It seemed a lot cooler on the beach. I'm dying here, people. It's rained 1-2 days in the past 50 days. It's Seattle. Yoohoo, rain gods, it's Seattle!!! Come back.

We drove by the house we liked on the internet. Eh, it wasn't so nice on the outside. The main reason being is that it has this big aluminum structure in front of it that it looks like they built for their business. So not attractive.

But... the house next door is up for sale. It's quite a bit more though. Based on the flyer it looks nice, and the outside is appealing. It's a bit older, and it's hard to tell based on the pictures how updated it is. We would probably at least have to update the kitchen. We're toying with the idea of calling up the agent to look inside.

It's soooo expensive though. We are fortunate to own our house outright, and the thought of getting a huge mortgage is disheartening. Even if S lost his job right now, I'd be freaking out and we don't even have a mortgage payment. If we had a big mortgage payment, I'd be a basket case.

The taxes on that house would kill us too. It's assessed for more than 2x our house.

I don't know. Maybe living on the water should be more of a long-term goal.

The other idea going through my head is cashing out our house. Sell it, rent an apartment for a while and make our move when we see a house we like. If we cashed out our house, maybe the interest we'd earn on the proceeds could pay for an apartment & we'd be in a better position to save money.

Making the move right now seems so much like we'd be biting off more than we can chew.

Some days the whole cashing in the house and living in an apartment has some appeal. I can't figure out why. Maybe less responsibility and all that.