Retributive Kharma

Why is it that on the night we stay up late having An Important Discussion About Our Future, our four year old wanders in at 4:45 a.m. and proceeds to disrupt sleep for us until Tim's alarm goes off? Some sort of bizarre synergy -- you know, like "I'll push, you pull; you free-fall into space and I'll land on you like a trampoline" -- that sort of thing.

Or possibly the feral instincts of small children who know when you are most vulnerable and choose that time to set the seal on your complete inability to form coherent thought for the day. You could argue that their self-preservation instincts are woefully underdeveloped, since this sort of disruption in my already deprived sleep cycle greatly increases the chances that I will sell them later on ebay.

Wow, am I knackered today.

We met with our realtor last night and are both encouraged and vastly nervous. We think we can get what we need to out of this house, we also think we can make a good (for us) offer on the dream house without seeming insulting. We also learned that houses in our price range are selling well, despite all the media propaganda explaining how the housing bubble has burst and the market is dead.

Now that we are really on the brink of a serious decision, we are trying hard to go into everything with eyes wide open. Can we deal with the shortcomings that house has? The lot's rather small, the driveway is sloped, the tile is not a fave, there are way too many trees in the backyard, the basement is large, but not laid out in the most functional configuration for our family. Can we cope with all this? With the things that are basically not changeable?

Not sure. We're going to try to decide something this weekend, so we can at least move forward.

On the up-side, I did find a houseplan that is almost identical in size and style, though much nicer in elevation, so if we could find a sweet lot, we could build more or less the same house. Something else to think about.