Well, after 6 months of trying to sell my house, it finally did! Selling a house in this market is hard, and so I'm just happy it did sell, even though we lost some money. The next house we are buying (hopefully it all goes through-cross your fingers for me!) needs some work too and is really more expensive than we can afford right now, but we're going to live frugal for awhile and suck it up. No more take out whenever we feel like it (eek...), no more coffee shop or Starbucks (sigh...), no more scrapbook store binges (humph...), no more massages(aggghhh!), no more craft store sprees (ohhhhh...)no more clothes shopping (sob...) But the house is great and has huge potential! So for awhile we'll be just fine with going without the perks. It's located in a wonderful suburb of Philadelphia with picturesque homesteads that are storybook stone colonials and Victorians. Big, old tree lined streets and large front porches. Here are some pictures of my new home (hopefully!-we're negotiating-wish me luck!) 
the front porch
fireplace by front door, large butler's pantry, dining room,
stairs from second floor to third floor
door to my "sunroom"/meditation room, basically a room with all windows. It's off from my bedroom. Cool, huh???
Living room (that's the Realtor off to the side) Like the super deep window sills? 
Kitchen, will be redone next year, but totally livable now. The kitchen has back stairs that go up to the second level. Always wanted those!
Not a great picture of the backyard. It's three tiered. On the second tier we'll add a garden in the spring. The girls play gym will be off to the side of the house. There's a nice blue stone patio under the sunroom window. I thought the third tier would be nice to have another small sitting area to read or sip cocktails with friends.
So wish me luck, ya all! November 16th is the big moving day!!!
