Rainette goes house-hunting

[la_rainette]

Yes.

We are house-hunting. *siighs deeply* OMG this is going to be the longest week in my entire life.

rainette: get your coat on, Tadpole, we're going to visit houses.
Tadpole: other houses?
rainette: YES! We're going to pick a BRAND NEW HOUSE! And then we'll go LIVE THERE! *beams*
Froglet: NO! NO! NO!
rainette: ?
Froglet: I'm gonna miss my toys so much
rainette *soothing tone*: we'll take them with us when we move.
Froglet: oh.
Tadpole: I want a BLUE house.

We'll see about that, sweet pea. How about neutral colours?

Husband *surfing real-estate sites on the internet*: oh, that's a colourful house.
rainette: Oooooh, yellow living-room! How, erm, colourful! Especially with the red dining-room.
Husband *loads picture of bathroom which is BRIGHT PURPLE*
Husband and rainette, together: AAAAAAAARGH!
Husband *closes internet window*: Great. That killed my eyes. I'm going to need glasses now.


At an open house, on the balcony:

Husband *burst out laughing*
rainette: ?
Husband: See how the balcony isn't quite level? And how there is NO HOLE to let the water out if it rains?
rainette: ?
Husband: This is not a balcony, it's a SWIMMING POOL FOR HAMSTERS!
rainette *facepalms*


Froglet *slides down railing*: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Tadpole *climbs on furniture and giggles*
Husband and rainette: NO!

The good point about taking your kids house-hunting is that you figure out the danger-zones, if any, right away. Want to know if your house is child-proof? Borrow the Froglet.

Also, you get to try out all the toilets. Cos there is nothing like an unknown toilet to make a kid want to pee.

In other news, remember how Froglet lost her tooth and draw a picture of it, and wrote dent perdue (lost tooth) on the drawing and put it under her pillow? Well, the tooth fairy came by and gave her a few stickers and a toonie (2 Canadian dollars). And then she lost the toonie *facepalms*.

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[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Hee! My mom and step-dad used to take us house shopping, and even a bit older, I remember my brother making things... interesting.

Also, we used to call my brother the toilet tester. If we were somewhere there was a toilet, he had to use it.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D In those over-equiped Canadian houses, the rule is: if there are mutliple bathrooms, pick one. You don't get to go in all 4. Yes, some houses we've visited have 4 bathrooms. Hey, NOW WE CAN ALL PEE SIMULTANEOUSLY! Finally a chance to win the peeing constest -- whoever pees first wins (usually that context is strictly a Froglet-Tadpole competition, with Froglet on the toilet and Tadpole on her Big Blue Plastic Potty).

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Aww, sympathies for you house-hunting during the holiday season. As if life is not stressful enough during those times.

When we moved into our current house, the master bedroom--which is huge--was painted Pepto-Bismol pink. With Christmas-green carpet. It was nausea-inducing just to walk in. Also the brick fireplace in the living room had been painted. PINK. Argh.

The plus side--paint is cheap. The minus side--painting is very very difficult with small frogs. Remind me sometime, and I will tell you the story of how my brother and I got religion via a near-death experience as young kids when my dad made us paint a rent house for him.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

pesto-bismol pink *hyperventilates* apparently, pink is a mood-brightener, but I'm not completely sure about that shade. I mean, waking up in the morning is hard. Waking up to a pepto-bismol environment probably qualifies as cruel and unusual.

We're hoping to find something that suits out taste enough so that we won't have to paint right away, but if we do have to paint or replace stuff -- luckily Husband is pretty good with these things.

[lunamystic]

Froglet: I'm gonna miss my toys so much
rainette *soothing tone*: we'll take them with us when we move.

Hee! I distinctly remember having this same conversation with my parents when I was five years old and found out we were leaving VA. I was greatly relieved to learn we didn't have to leave everything behind. However, I did have a weak moment when I found out that my beloved swing set wouldn't fit on the moving van. *grins*

Good luck with the house hunting! Chad and I went through that last year. It was... interesting. :D

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Heee! :D It's cute, the things little ones come up with. Sometimes kids freak out and you have no idea why (the trick is to sit down with them and listen. It doesn't always make sense to us adults, the irrational fears they have, but it's important to try and explain to them why it doesn't make sense)

Thanks! Right now, it's an "open house" hunting thing, more like: we tour whatever area we are in to look for open houses on the week-ends. There are a few, actually, but not too many people are eager to buy at that time of the year, which might be a good thing for buyers like us.

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

My mum used to build the houses we went to live in :p

I want a blue one though *pout*

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D You and Tadpole can go live together in the Big Blue House, preferably with the Bear. (There is a kiddie show called the Bear in the big Blue House, but Tadpole's love for blue is completely unrelated: she loves blue because her sister loves pink. Yeah, I know.)

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

Hey, I remember hearing about that show, and saw part of it once for some reason.

That bear scared me though ;.;

[levi.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the house hunting! We are debating moving to Tennessee, scarily enough.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Tennessee? Why?

Thanks, we've seen a few interesting things on the market. *is hopeful, but trying not to get her hopes up too much*

[levi.livejournal.com]

We just visited her mom and sister there. They live in the boonies, but only have to drive 20-30 minutes to get to stores, restaurants, and highways. Land is absurdly cheap there.

Example - Decent large double wide trailer, in good shape + -5- acres of land, $90,000.

Another example - Brand new 3 bedroom/2 bath 2 story brick house, 3 acres of land - $119,000.

The house up here would be at least $250,000 with no land. And it's gorgeous down there.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know exactly what you mean. We're trying to get closer to downtown, a little (or at least closer to the public transportation, because we have only one car, the ground rule being: whoever has the kids has the car), but we know that for the same price we could have a much larger house, further out East. *makes face*

Well, on the other hand, the beach area (where we live here, close to the lake and the boardwalk) has become unbelievably expensive in the last few years, and you pay a HUGE amount of money for the privilege of being within walking distance of the lake. We don't mind being away from the water so much. *shrugs*

[levi.livejournal.com]

The only thing I'm worried about is that it's Tennessee. The Deep South. There are rednecks everywhere. However, with that much land we wouldn't really worry about neighbors and we don't feel the need to make out in public.

[notions.livejournal.com]

Husband: This is not a balcony, it's a SWIMMING POOL FOR HAMSTERS!

eeeehehehehehehEEEHEHEHEeehe. eheh. :D

Why are you mooooving? GOOD LUCK. I remember house-hunting when we moved here, it was awful. But if I was good the lady who was helping my parents would give me stickers! Um, yes. That part was fun. ;D

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D We're moving because when we arrived here, three years ago, we weren't landed immigrants and we had no credit record: I don't think any bank would have lend us money! So we've been renting since.

And now it's time to take The Big Step and buy a home.

[notions.livejournal.com]

Exciting! Good luck finding one colourful enough for the kidlets without ruining your eyes ;D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

lost the toonie...! HAHAHAHA! /relate

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D I know! It's hilarious! And very typical of Froglet who loses everything, twice if she ever happens to find it again after the first time ;)

[raesa.livejournal.com]

Froglet reminds me of my little cousin. I just had a "conversation" with him on the phone on thanksgiving, which basically consisted of me learning how long he could go without breathing while he talked NonStop for as long as he possibly could. Benjamin apparently lost a tooth too and got a dollar from the tooth fairy. He lost the dollar the next day, but the tooth fairy returned it, saying she had "seen him misplace it." After whispering this to me, Benji whispered that he was going to pretend he lost it to see if he could get another dollar. He's six. *sigh*

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D He's very smart! Had he pretended for the first dollar, too? He sounds like he doesn't truly believe in the tooth fairy (which is OK. How very nice of him to still humour his parents :D )

Froglet lost her toonie before I woke up on the week-end, and Husband got up first and told her to look for it, and then she found a coin and came over while I was trying to wake up and showed me her find, saying: "look what the tooth fairy brought me, mommy!"

And I nearly blew it altogether when I blurted out IT BLOODY WELL DID NOT :D cos the tooth fairy wouldn't bring her a French franc, especially since the currency no longer exists... (we still have a few at home, they use them to play with)

[raesa.livejournal.com]

XD That's great! It's hard to watch what we say in the mornings sometimes...
And no, Benji actually did lose the first dollar. His genius plan came after he got another one. He still believes wholeheartedly in the tooth fairy... I think. But since he doesn't know where she is, he automatically assumes she doesn't know what he's doing. It's actually a pretty smart plan...

[bookwench31.livejournal.com]

I realize what a pain moving is, but I'm still laughing so I can't be super sypathetic right now. Remember you an paint anything.
On a side note, I have a christmas package for you and yours so don't go moving suddenly with no warning. *grins*

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEE! *bounces up and down* Oh, you're so sweet! *hugs* No, there is no sudden move to fear, we have no intention to move before Christmas anyway (no that we could possibly close before then, I heard. It's bound to take time, especially since most of our money first has to be converted in Canadian dollars and moved to our Canadian bank account.