I've grown to like it here. My little Mayberry neighborhood. Don't get me wrong - I'm still scouring Craigslist and Zillow for houses out by Mountain View and occasionally Boulder and even once in a while Ireland, but now that the boys have started school it's getting harder to think of leaving here. I mean, logistically it's amazing. I am 4 blocks from work, the school is literally half a block down the street and visible from the front window, the Metra is 3 blocks away when we need a quick downtown fix. Heck I just read the public high school here is actually ranked a couple slots above my own high school, and the park district facilities rock. It's looking more likely that if we don't move out of the area we'll either move within a few block radius of our current house, or just add on to where we live right now. I definitely want more room, especially considering we'll be a family of SIX this Summer, but the main problem with adding on is that I really don't want to encroach too much on our existing yard. Also we're super close to having completed every major upgrade to this house that we wanted, and now it's really not half bad. We'll get a new roof this Spring, and I think the only major things left to do are replace the hideous siding on the addition and garage and get a back patio (we seriously don't have one, at all.) Oh wait, I did forget to mention most of the food options here
are still sub par suck. There's a specialty grocery store that's awesome, and owned by our local celebrity chef, and a little Mexican restaurant opened up just two blocks away and it is quite good. But really though there are many restaurants within walking distance, none are too great. It's what I would consider the biggest drawback of where we live. I really love being able to walk to everything, and I would hate to live someplace that required a lot of driving to get around. I'm sort of a homebody, and I think without exception every place Eric and I have lived has been super walkable. I think our apartment in Park Ridge was the furthest removed from the main drag.
The other thing is we've made a lot of friends and I really love it. I mean LT and BP (and even AMJ) have so many friends and Eric and I have become close with a number of parents, and these are people and families we'll be able to not only hang out with but go on vacations with and that means a lot to me. Even knowing that we could make new friends someplace, it's getting much harder to imagine doing that. So, for now at least, we're (probably) staying. And expanding (our family.) And re-roofing.
Maybe next time I'll write about how horrible my morning sickness STILL is! See, and you were just wishing I blogged more.
We're going to Don Juans now. Brendan didn't nap and Aidan only took a short nap. Wish us luck.
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update on dinner. no one was horribly behaved, but for I think the first time ever or almost ever, AMJ wet his pants, and of course he was sitting on my lap. I ordered the wrong food, Liam accidentally pushed his thumb through his lemonade cup and a lemonade waterfall spewed everywhere, and Aidan kept touching the pictures and mirrors on the wall. I was one of those chastising through gritted teeth parents that I can't stand, bit I must admit I have been like that a lot lately because I feel so damn sick. so it was fine but not our best dining experience. well maybe our best of 2013, and we've got room and time to improve.
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