FINALLY THEY SETTLED

Well we have been nothing but busy.

I finally got the insurance to settle on my car accident. They called me on Monday and offered me a settlement. We didn't feel as though they were offering enough so we counter-offered and believe it or not they called me yesterday and were happy to except our offer. So they are sending me a check today. I am so stinkin' excited. LOL.

The most exciting part of the whole deal is "I AM GOING CAR SHOPPING". We had to sell my Saturn, due to me being out of work so long and our bills piling up, so now I get a new car.

Other news, we have been house shopping. We have decided that we can't stay here another winter. Just this past winter months we paid the exact amount for monthly rent as we did for our monthly electric/gas bills. Plus our summer electric bill is outragous due to running 2 window unit air conditioners. So we have to do something.

We went last night and looked at a BEAUTIFUL 4 year old house on 3 acres in Drexel. I FELL in love instantly. Of course, there are pros and cons. The pros mainly consist of the amount of money we would save during the winter. The rent is the same as what we pay now. The con's...yeah, the con's. She has it on the market until December, BUT she said she would be willing to see about getting it off the market, since she hasn't had one looker since she put it on in April. We would have to haul water, but we can handle that. There is a total of 10 acres, but it is split with a house of 3 acres and a house on 7 acres. In order to get to the house, that 10 acres is up on a hill in the middle of 75 acres. You can't see the house from any surrounding road. To get in the driveway, we would have to cross a set of railroad tracks, BUT, beings it is a small rail line, they don't run that many trains. So we could probably live with that. So we are debating everything.

If it just depended on the house we would be moving immediately. It is a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bath, formal living room, formal dining room, MAGNIFICENT kitchen, breakfast nook in the kitchen, and a family room. The outside has a 2 car garage with a large covered porch off the side of it, the house has a beautiful front porch and a nice deck off the kitchen.

But we have to look at the thoughts of the driveway, hauling water and living so far away from family. It is only about 40 minutes from Paola, but our family doesn't like to travel. LOLOLOL.
So we should know by next week if we are going to take it or not.

So as you can see, we have been busy. Maybe by this time next week, we will be starting to pack. Which by the way if we do move, we will be having a LARGE moving sale. Since that house doesn't have a basement, I would have to drastically downsize. LOL