Ahhhhh!

I'm getting very fustrated now, I really thought this property was the one, but our offer has been turned down. We really cant up the offer so its back to the drawing board. We are up against the clock now, Our pre-approval only lasts 2.5 more months and then we will have to reapply. This doesn't sound hard but we scraped our preapproval though before an expense change at the bank, if we have to reapply then the new rules will apply which will drop the amount the bank will lend us by about 20-40 thousand dollars. I know I have to have faith that God will find us the right property for our family but on days like this it is a struggle. Will keep you updated.

Still plodding along!

Just a quick update. We are still ploding along in our hunt for our farm. We got pre-approval from the bank so we now know exactly what we have to spend which is good. We have also put and offer in on a property of 135 acres. Its got a lovely 120-140 year old stone farm house, is a working sheep farm with a lovely old working stone shearing shed, the biggest chook house I think I have ever seen and andother stone shed. It has 4 dams and a winter creek.

It means the kids will all have to change schools, but it is in a discrict of one of the schools on my list that I liked. It is actually closer to work (55mins) for Ian that the Birdwood property. I loved the Birdwood property that we put an offer on but walking around this property, I think, "what was I thinking, This feels like home!"

Well now we just hold our breath and wait on the reply to our offer. I will keep you updated, and if we get it I will put up lots of picies.

Bye for now!

Still hunting!

I assume that you have guessed from the lack of posts that we didn't get the house. Someone else has bought the house and we are still on the hunt. Just about every weekend we got trapsing up to the hills to look at yet another property. We even have been looking at blocks of land to build a house on ourselves. Still to no avail. Patience is a virtue - so I am told. I will keep you posted.

The wait is killing me!

the wait to find out if our offer is accepted or if someone beat us out is driving me nuts. I tried distracting my self by packing for my daugters trip to Perth on saturday. Well that was a disaster, I discovered that she has had a growth spurt mid winter and grown out of all her clothes so then had to go shopping (I hate late night shopping!) - The things that you don't notice when your kids live in school uniforms or sports/swim suits! I tried tv, knitting soaking in the bath (I think that made the clock go backwards?!?) eating nothing is making the time go quicker. well end of whine!

One step closer

Well we have put an offer in on the birdwood place now its just a matter of waiting to see if its accepted. The real estate agent tells us there is possible 2 other offers beside ours that he will be taking to the vendor on friday. The waiting is excrutiating, I just want to know either way.

To distract my self I have been looking for furniture for the girls room. When (notice I say when) we move I will need furniture for one of the girls room as we will be finally seperating them.

I have also been trying to find out info on Golden Retriever dogs. Thats the dog we plan on getting once we move to the farm maybe even 2. They are good farm dogs but they tend to also be very placid which with our kids will be important. well best go will keep you updated.

School Visit

Today I went and checked out Birdwood Primary School. The acting principal was lovely. The school was a georgeous school and was really well layed out, they are getting a new gymnasium and library this year. I was very up front with the acting principal about my little special joys and she sees no problems that we can't work on together. They have other children with Aspergers, Dyslexia and speech problems so our kids weren't anything they haven't dealt with before. I came away feeling good about the school.

If we can find a house and move by term 4, I will have all kids at school - 6 hours a day to myself - na surely not possible. LOL!
catch ya later

Another Property!

We are still plodding along looking for a property. We went and looked at one in Birdwood yesterday - here's a link.
http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?fslm=1&a=o&id=105782558&t=res&s=sa

The property is absolutely georgeous, it has a creek cutting the property in 1/2, 6 good sized paddocks, The vegie garden is over grown but is fenced in which is one less job I need to do. There is a chook pen and another animal enclosure. It also has a small dam and has both mains and rain water to the house. There is good fairly new shed as well as another animal shed and a few little garden sheds. (lots of sheds for the boys). The gardens will need a bit of work - they are a bit bushy and look like the perfect spot for snakes to hide.

The house is smaller than our current house. However my view is I can fix a house but I can't fix a property. There are many options to get the house up to par, just depends on how much we have left to spend on it after we have paid for it (if we do purchase it). Even though the house is smaller it has potential for the 6 bedrooms we need and will still have a family room and lounge room. What I do like though is that the larger room is the lounge/dinning room. This house has the large room as the family/dinning room (it is huge) but when we are sitting down at the dinning table talking with friends (adults) and the kids are finished eating then they are playing in the same room us adults are in and you end up yelling above the noise of the kids. With the formal lounge being with the dinning room and the family room seperate this will be lots better.

The house only has 1 bathroom, which we had ideas how to solve this problem. Now we have seen the house it is a priority to sort out. The bathroom is very tiny (can't swing a cat). The toilet is seperate though so this is good. We could turn the laundry into a second bath room and put the laundry outside the house, if we just added the 2 extra bedrooms by taking part of the family room for them. If we actually build the 2 rooms on then we would include a bathroom in that. It all depends on how much we would have left after purchasing the place.

I am planning to go and talk to both the primary and highschool this week. There is no reason they should be able to handle my special chicklets but I would rather check before we put an offer in on the place. Will keep you updated.