Decisions, decisions

So, John and I have been contemplating on what to do about our future. I'll explain. We bought our house in 2006 knowing that we would not stay in this house forever. We basically bought it for a starter house. We bought our very first house we looked at here in Daviess County. Trust me, we looked at other homes in Evansville, Newburgh, and Oakland City, so we pretty much knew this was the one. So, now we are at a place in our lives where we need to make some decisions. Now that we have Lily, our house is getting smaller and smaller with all of her toys and stuff. The location of our house is not ideal for small children either.....too much traffic. Plus, we are still in our 20s (well, John won't be for long) and I would like to find a place to live for the rest of our lives so after 30 years, we can have our mortgage paid off and still be young enough to enjoy ourselves.

So, here are the options we are exploring: 1) we move to a home closer to Dubois Co since both of us work there. 2) we add on to this house like crazy...it would take a lot of work. 3) We build a house on John's parents land. 4) we move to my hometown in Illinois and remodel a home there. In my opinion, I'm saying no to option 2 and 4 all together. Option 3 sounds nice, but there are some cons that go along with that as well.

To be truthful, none of those options are all that great. Living in Daviess County is not that ideal for me. I'm sorry, but I'm just not a fan. I have met a lot of really nice people here, but I have also met a lot of not so nice people. It's those few that basically leaves a bad taste in your mouth. I'm not a fan of moving home to Illinois either. I do NOT want people knowing my business and talking about me. I know you will get that anywhere, but not a whole lot of people know me here, so it's nice. John tells me that I have to pick here or there. We can't move anywhere else. So, the lesser of two evils would probably be here.

So, anyway, we are trying to decided on what to do. Knowing us, we won't do anything. Neither one of us is good with change. However, this is pretty important. If we ever had another baby, we pretty much have hit capacity in our house now. So, we don't have our house on the market, but if anyone is interested in our 3 bedroom 2 bath home with a partial unfinished basement on 1 acre of land in the Glendale area...let us know!!