We Might Be Moving

This is more like an e-mail, really. Except instead of writing a mass e-mail and trudging through my contact list, I'm just going to post it here. For simplicity.

The story:

The church we're attending here has a classical Christian school attached to it. They just bought a huge tract of land (by local standards, anyway. This is not Montana.) to renovate into the new school campus. It was originally a small military academy, and most recently, something else (name deleted for security purposes). Well there is a house on the property that is currently being used as an office building. The school wants to renovate it back into a house and rent it out to some nice happy family folks.

That's where we come in.

So our friend from the church (who is the Mr. Money Bags of the venture, far as I can tell), showed us around the place this morning. Andy saw it Wednesday night but I had other obligations to attend to (Mommy, The Bedtime Slave). It looks quite promising. I mean, when you're living with your in-laws, doesn't anything with four walls you can call your own look promising? (I'm just kidding. I love my in-laws. I just don't want to live with them for the rest of my life.)

Right now it looks, well, rather office-y. Stark white walls and old faded indoor/outdoor carpet. And a huge copy machine right smack dab in the middle of the kitchen. The showers were taken out of the bathrooms and there is no stove. Quite useful things for a home you plan to, you know, live in.

BUT! If we decide we want it, they can start the renovations right away. And I would get to pick the carpet. And the wall paint. Have you ever heard of such a sweet deal? (That was rhetorical, bytheway.)

Alright, details, details. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms. The room we'd use as the master bedroom (it could really be an upper-level family room) is enormous as far as bedrooms go. I could have my own sitting area. Where I can have my maid bring me hot tea and fashion magazines. There's also a door that leads out to a small deck/porch area. And a bay window.

The two other main bedrooms are a good size. I'd put Drew in his own and make it a big-boy room. No more of this baby nursery powdery blue. The girls would get the other room. It would be pink, naturally. There's even two closets in there. And the fourth bedroom could pass for a shoebox but it will do just splendidly for a study/office. For Andy. Since that's why we moved here.

The lower level - it's a lot of space but really low ceilings. Oh well. One can't be too picky. All the windows (and there are a lot of windows. Love those.) are relatively new and easily go up and down. It's really bright and sunny from all the light pouring in. Which will be good in March when I'm suffering from the 'everlasting winter' depression.

The kitchen is big enough to accommodate a good-sized table and chairs. Then the living room area (did I mention the low ceilings?) is about half the length of the house and is a pretty good size as well. It's more space than our house in Ch@ttanooga. And then there is a utility/storage room where they are going to also have the laundry stuff. (So I can continue to be Mommy, The Laundry Slave.) That room is huge, too, probably bigger than the kitchen.

Oh, and since it's relevant, the utilities will all be lumped together in a flat monthly fee. Which includes phone and cable. Just thought you'd want to know.

Oh, and the school playground is in the backyard. A nice feature.

All in all, once the renovation is complete, it would be a really comfy house for whoever will move in. We'll just pray for now that it will be us!