Our First Month (Positives)

So I did a bit of complaining in the last post and pointed out a bunch of negatives. Here are some good things:

The boys’ rooms are bigger than they’ve ever been. :-)

We have a “toy” room.

Since moving in, we have spent more time outside than we ever did before. This has pushed back the boys’ bedtimes, but doing yardwork and going for walks and just being outside sure does feel good when it’s the whole family together. Our front yard is in the shade in the evening so it’s nice to wash the cars, water the grass, play with the sidewalk chalk, and just be out there. The back yard is so weedy still that we don’t spend any time back there. It’s kinda a blank slate waiting for some lovin’.

Ooo, this is nice, the laundry room isn’t in the kitchen anymore! And it’s not in the garage, either. Well, technically it is, but they built the laundry room INTO the garage space so it doesn’t “feel” like it from the house.

We live really close to a great splash park.

Our neighborhood has a pool though it will be quite a while before we actually get a “key” to it. At least we live really close to that great splash park.

We have around $50 in equity! I mean, wow, that’s not a lot but we’ve made one house payment so far and $50 of it didn’t go to interest! Woot! So much for “not throwing money away” (we just threw more than our rent payment EVER was into interest, so in my mind, that’s “throwing money away” in a big way… oooh, I better check myself, I’m starting to teeter on the negative stuff again.)

The kitchen exhaust (built in to the microwave somehow) vents outside instead of just blowing your food smells right back into your face.

Oh! How could I forget? We recycle, have a recycling bin, and it gets picked up curbside!