I must be a grown-up

We are planning on moving to a bigger and better place in the not-too-distant future.  Well, not necessarily better, but definitely bigger.  We are in a 3-bedroom home currently but it is just not big enough for the 5 of us (do not ask me how my mother coped with 8 kids - yes 8 - in a 3-bedroom house because I have absolutely no idea).  We are noisy family and there is just no escaping one another in our house.  Actually, we are not as noisy as my new neighbours who seem unable to communicate with one another without the whole extended family (because there seems to be several adults as well as the kids) chiming in and it eventually escalates into a massive screaming match so that I end up wanting to pop my head over the fence to add my 2c worth by shouting "SHUT THE F--- UP!"

But I digress.  So we have been looking at the same area for a while.  Our plan has been to buy an investment property with a view to fixing up our current place and moving in about 6 - 9 months time.  That plan was scuttled last weekend when we saw a place that we both just loved, rendering it necessary for us to sell our house NOW!  So this week has been a frenzy of meetings with mortgage brokers, agents, calls to banks, storage places, furniture rentals and I've basically been running on pure adrenaline all week.  The real estate agents I've consulted assure me that we can get the place on the market before Christmas, because being such a highly multicultural area the majority of people don't celebrate Christmas anyway, so it pretty much makes no difference to the housing market.

Until this morning.  When I woke up thinking "I am not going to put myself through 2 weeks of hell attempting get this house sale-ready when I HAVE NOT EVEN DONE MY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING YET!"

I know it means kissing the house that we both really loved goodbye, but, you know, there will be other houses that will be just as nice, maybe even on the same street.

I can't tell you how mature I feel for having come to this decision.

So here I am.  Instead of madly weeding and scraping paint and packing boxes for storage, I am at leisure to waste time on the computer.