It’s funny what life tosses your way from time to time.<\/p>\n

On Sunday (three days ago), Susan, the kids and I went to visit an open house for sale. The house is gigantic, and has lots of cool features, and isn’t too far from where we live now (about 10 miles north). <\/p>\n

So, we bought it.<\/p>\n

It was more complicated than that, of course. Between the low interest rate and our current horrible housing market, we got a great<\/i> deal on the place. The purchase is not as big of a surprise as it may seem; Susan and I have been saving for several years now with plans of buying or building a new home in a few years anyway, so finding this particular home for sale just kind of just sped things along. The trade off for not building brand new (the new house was built in 2005) or building exactly<\/i> what we wanted is that we’re saving over $100k on the house. <\/p>\n

We don’t close until mid-October, which gives us a few weeks to start packing and moving things into a storage unit. A good family friend of ours (Pat Deckard) is stopping by our house later this week to give us some cleaning and staging tips. I suspect one will be, “get rid of any trace that Rob ever lived here,” but we’ll see. <\/p>\n

By clicking here<\/a> you can see a few pictures of the new place. Expect many posts about packing, moving, and de-cluttering over the next month or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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