When the news broke that we had a bun in the oven, we initially thought we would stay in our quant little Philadelphia home. But a new baby combined with a big giant white German Shepherd in a small house with a husband that travels a lot for work = did not compute. I always jokingly say we moved for the dog, but really we did. Because Chris travels so much for work we really needed a yard to let the dog out into while he was on the road. Me without a baby in tow could walk the dog in the city, but with a baby in tow, thats a bit too much to wrangle around the city. I know, I know, people do it. But really they don't have giant german shepherd dogs. Anyway, it has all worked out! Claire (our daughter) loves Kane, our giant german shepherd. She calls him "Puppa." She loves chasing him around the loop that our kitchen, dinning room and hallway create in the new house.
Here I am in my pregnant plumpness after we bought the house.
So after considering these things, and when a great house became available we decided to take the plunge and move out of the city and into the burbs. We still own our Phildelphia home, so who knows maybe one day we'll get rid of the dog and move back ;) I kid, I kid. But really.
We decided we wanted to hang onto our Philly home because the neighborhood it is in is expanding really quickly. We realized pretty quickly that we had to create a feasible bedroom on the third floor before anyone would pay us money to actually live there. So we quickly had to get into demolition mode of knocking a wall down on the third floor and then rewiring pretty much the whole house. On the third floor the wall had to be knocked down, all the rubbel had to be removed, the floors had to be refinished and then sealed, and then the walls had to be painted as well as other minor home improvements to get the the house rent-ready.
Literally, every weekend between April to July in 2014, we had something going on with either our Philadelphia home or our new home. Our schedule was tight to say the least. I like to think of that point in our lives as "everything at once."
We moved to the new house when I was 6 months pregnant in June of 2014. We decided to start charging Chris' brother Jeremy rent. Well, we kindly house him in one of the bedrooms in our new 5 bedroom casa in exchange for the rent, of course. We decided this extra cash-shola and extra help in the new house would be worth it. Also, Chris' brother is an easy going lad that isn't hard to live with.
The new house we bought did not have a washer, dryer or refrigerator. So we had to purchase a new refrigerator and washer and dryer. Yes, I know what a terrible burden that is. That was actually a selling point to me. I was like a kid in a candy store picking out those appliances. Way too much adulating going on over here.
The first thing that we did, meaning Christopher and Jeremy, was put in a fence in the backyard for that big german shepherd dog I mentioned before.
Stay tuned kids, these posts to follow in detail!!! :
- Wall demo on third floor of Philly home
- Floor refinished on third floor of Philly house
- Re-wiring of the whole dang Philly house!
- Construction of the farm three rail fence at the new house
- Picking out appliances for new home
- Birth story of Claire's arrival
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