First of all, we were renting our old house from my parents, with the intention to buy it soon. We really loved the location of the house, but it just was not meeting our needs right now. It really was not something we wanted to buy. The house consisted of 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (only one shower), a living room, dining room, and kitchen. We also had a nice big storage room and rec room in our basement. The rec room was more of a lego explosion room than anything else. :)
What wasn't working in that house was that we had the three boys sharing the smaller bedroom (it was about 8 x 8 room) in order to have a designated school room. We chose this option because I was stressing out over using our dining room as a school area and having school stuff spread through out the entire house. Having all three boys in one room was NOT working for us! We have one that is an early riser, one that is a sleep in-er, and one that is noisy when he wakes up! That combination did not work well! In other words when the early riser got up at 6:00 or 6:30 they were all up! Which left a grumpy one, and one that didn't know how to just chill out and play quietly. If you haven't caught on, I am NOT a morning person, and I prefer to ease in to my day.
The criteria we used when looking for a new home, included the following: At least 3 bedrooms, at least 2 bathrooms (one of those being a master bath), two living spaces, a dining room, and a designated area for school. Things that we were hoping to find but were not deciding factors were: an updated kitchen, an attached garage, and a nice size yard.
I am so happy to say that we got almost everything we were hoping for!! We found a split level 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home with two living areas, an attached garage and a nice size yard. The one thing I had to compromise on was the kitchen. Its not terrible, but its tiny, and could use a little updating.
Here is how we are using our new spaces. We have a master bedroom with a bathroom. We have two of our boys, Noah (the sleep in-er) and Zach (the noisy one, who will also sleep in if given the chance), sharing a room, and then Elijah gets his own room. This has been amazing for all of us! They now sleep in until about 7 or 7:30! In our basement area, we have a large family room and the fourth bedroom which we are using as our school area. There is also a half bath down stairs which works wonderfully for when we are doing schoolwork and Zach needs to use the potty.
I don't have great pictures right now of our spaces, but here is a little glimpse of where we do school and our outside space. I hope to post better photos later and give you a little tour of our home.
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| To the left in the picture is my oldest sons desk, he's the tall one in the photo. To the right is my middle sons desk, he is not in the picture. The little on in the picture is our three year old. |
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| We were so lucky that the previous owners left this great play set. It has a climbing wall, a slide, monkey bars, and swings. |
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