Why don't I blog more? I have asked myself that question a lot lately. I think it is because I am living life on auto pilot and blogging would actually require me to stop and focus on life and what I want to say about it. Even with tennis activities at a minimum right now due to weather (dang this has been one cold TX winter), we still seem to find time to be busy all the time. Actually, we've had some lovely weekends at home the past few months with minimal outside activities involved. We have spent that time, cleaning...looking at houses....watching tv...playing on the computer (the kids - not me). We seem to be eating at home more which is a nice change of pace. My favorite and least favorite thing we've done w/ our "spare time" is looking at houses. We have been in our home for almost 13 years. We moved in when Ash was just 9 months old. I didn't like the house when we bought and I'm not sure I like it very much now. It's like an old shoe - comfy and warm but ugly and dirty at the same time. When we moved in there were lots of promises to ourselves and the house that we would "fix r up" when we had the time and money. Problem was, the more we fixed - the more we broke. We are not handy people and alot of our "little projects" were just not up to par which left us with a house that never seemed to be right. I love the use of space in this house and the size of the rooms but I really dislike the layout and flow. Every ceiling needs scraped and textured - most walls too. All the carpet needs replaced and two bathrooms need complete overhauls. A few months ago, DH found a brand new house on the other side of town that was just "perfect". We weren't looking - we really haven't even talked much about moving at all in the past 13 years. He was bored and went in to take a look. He fell in love with this house and soon he had the whole family smitten as well. Once catch, the house was the right size but the cost was so far out of our ballpark - it was not even funny.

Then we found some other builders in town that didn't seem to be out to get top dollar from the poor schmucks wanting to live in TC. These are reputable builders with much better prices. So now we've looked again and seen some things we like and we are hooked on the idea of moving. However, we would have to do so much work in our current home before we could put it on the market that the whole thing seems pointless. If we haven't done these things in 13 years - why would we think we would do them now? The biggest downside to our grand plan is that I don't want to move until our dog passes on to the great dog pound in the sky. She's almost 16, blind, deaf and barely moving but this is her house. She's marked her territory in ever nook and cranny. It's her yard. It's what she knows and I'm not sure she would make the transition very well at all so I know we must wait. It gives me an excuse to continue procrastinating on the updates to the current house.

So for now, we will live in our home and make the most of it just like we have for the last 13 years. I'll just add a little shoe polish and some more Scentsy and she will continue to feel good around us all.