House for sale

Well, our house went up on the market today. I was a little sad about that. We've not even lived in this house for 2 years. The realtor seems to think it'll sell really quick. All of the other houses in this area do. I know the housing market is way down nationally but it's still booming here. This is a good thing for us. Hopefully we'll sell ours quickly at a good price and then find one we can get a really good deal on in Maryland or Virginia. We've already been pre-aproved for a home loan from a couple of different places. We've heard from several people that houses are not selling quickly up there and sellers are coming way down on their prices and are even paying all the closing costs ect...Hopefully we'll get a good break on whatever we decide on. There was one house that I've had my eye on. It's beautiful and I love the inside of it from what I saw in the pictures. As luck would have it though someone else thought so too and made on offer on it. It says pending so I'll still keep tabs on it just in case it doesn't work out for them. There are still about 6 others to look at. It did have the #1 spot on my list though. Oh well....that one wasn't meant to be I guess. We're supposed to chat with the realtor in Maryland tomorrow. Hopefully they'll have some houses for us to look at that I missed somehow. I'd really like to have between 8-10 to look at. I'm really not worried about finsing a house anymore. I'm more worried about finding a good school for the kids. They go to a really good school right now. There's even a waiting list to get in. From what I've been able to find out about the schools in Hagerstown, they're "average". Of course I don't know what they're comparing them too. We're still not set on that location, it just happens to be where most of the houses are that we're finding. I think I'm gonna have to go on a tour of some of these schools when we go back up there.

I just realized last night that if we live in Hagerstown it'll be a 3.5-4 hour drive to the ocean. I was really hoping we'd be 2 or less from it. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that I can drive to it and back in a day if I want to, I was just hoping it would be a wee bit closure so the kids and I could go at least once a week in the summer. You know what...I love the ocean too much, I may drive down there once a week anyway...lol. Do you know what I just realized? If we do end up in Hagerstown, it's only a 3 hour and 45 minute drive to New York City. My birthday's 2 days after Thanksgiving and I'm seriously considering going up there to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I REALLY wanted to do that for my 30th b-day since it was on Thanksgiving but didn't get to. Since I can get there and back in the same day I can do that now! How great is that?! And how great for all of you that I'll live right smack in the middle of everything and can take you all sorts of places when you come to visit me! LOL! I can take you to D.C. (since I'll be right there..lol), the ocean, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlantic City, New York City....I could just go on all day here LOL! I'm terribly sad that I'm moving away from my best gal pal but am really excited that one day I know she'll come see me and I'll be able to take her places that we've only read about or seen on the news :). For the first time Cassie's made a big request that's actually doable. I really could take her to see the Statue of Liberty and could be there in just a few hours :). Our atlas has definately been my friend lately. I've spent a lot of time looking at the things that'll be near us and all of the places that we can go.