working out what's what..

So obviously it's all been a bit quiet here... I think we can be pretty clear I am a haphazard blogger!

I am still having to manage my impatience as, despite lots of viewings, we've had no offers, yet.

However, things have also become a little more complicated. A couple of weeks ago we went back to the lovely Monmouthshire and looked at some more properties. Well only one in the end due to snow, and the car claustrophobia of our littlest. But, this one property is lovely... on 2 lovely flat acres, in a little hamlet, is a good size house, that has a great barn attached to it that we could one day extend into. I really liked it. My lovely husband also liked it, but not as much as the first contender... the mountain home.

You see the mountain home has much more land (another 6 acres) and is very romantic and wild, it has great potential for a glampsite and thus income. However, the mountain home is quite isolated and (unsurprisingly being on a mountain) is up a very steep road with a lovely hairpin bend!

As you can imagine, there have been very many long and lengthy discussions about these two houses and which is the best option. For me, though I love the mountain house, and I do, the thought of being up there, alone with two small children, for large portions of the day, and inevitably some nights when himself has to work away, scares me. Partly because I am prone to imagining worse case scenarios, and because I grew up a city girl. But also because my bigger girl can get some pretty nasty croup attacks and I like to feel that in an emergency i could yell to a neighbour for help.

Now I know there are neighbours up there, and my little ones won't be so little forever, but its a very important concern for me. The other house, barn house, doesn't have those worries... but it is a whole chunk more expensive and doesn't at the moment have the obvious, immediate income potential of the mountain house.

So the lists, comparisons, dreaming and discussions continue, there is no decision, and we'll be heading back for more house hunting shortly... just in case there is a third contender!

Because, you see, none of it really matters at the moment, all discussions are academic, until we have a buyer for our house we can't do anything anyway...

And here we are full circle, back at my impatience! It will happen, we will get there, someone will love our house, we'll work out whats most important for our move, things will progress.... won't they?