We are moving!
Chances are friends, family, and blog readers already know this! I promised I would post an update and so here it is. Military moves can be hard. We have done so very many of them over the years and I thought with time the would be less stressful but to my surprise, this hasn’t been the case. I have been very stressed trying to plan all the details of moving this family from MD to GA. While it is only an 8 hour drive (10 with 4 kids and stops!) it isn’t a small or easy move.
Where are we going to live Mom?
A question I have been trying to answer for over a month now. I made the mistake of talking online to a realtor about a home that had a huge fenced yard with a home that wasn’t the perfect fit but the yard made up for it. I braved asking if they would allow a few chickens and chicken coop and he said it wouldn’t be an issue. I then shared a video online of the home to my 6 and 8 year old who I needed to talk to about possible room sharing. I wanted to make sure they loved it and would be ok with the plan. The yard had it’s playground so they seemed to not care about anything else. It was infectious how happy they got about the house. Days latter back and forth with the realtor and me planning were all our furniture would go and such and the agent got back to us that the owner would only allow one small outdoor dog. We have 2 small dogs and cat. So we could have chickens but not our normal pets. I felt very badly telling the kids that the house would not work out.
The next house we wanted, we submitting an application for. It had a small yard but it had a pool and playground and would allow all the pets. The owner asked if he could e-mail us the contract for it, making us think it was ours, so we started to again plan. Only after not hearing from the owner for a week we got worried and it turns out the current renters are waiting to close on a house of their own and things keep coming up. I asked the owner what the chances are of us getting that house in February and he told us 50/50 and to look for a back up. 50/50 felt like 0 at that point.
So then we checked with on post military housing, and they could get us into a small 4 bedroom with small yard on the 18th. It was our back up and it helped but we really don’t want to live on post given all we have heard about Fort Gordon post housing. So we did something we have never done for a military move, we took leave and went down house hunting early.
