Against all odds

Husband has tons of work to do (at 10 p.m.!!!) and Lotta is asleep so I thought I'd write a bit since it's been a while. Let's see. Well, one big thing is that Lotta moved to her own room a week and a half ago and it has gone very well. Before she was even born I was thinking that Christmas break would be a good time to move her away from our bedroom. I've been spectacularily wrong with everything else I thought in advance so it came as a surprise that this actually seems to have been a good idea.

It all started with my cold and the fact that I was so worried that my coughing would wake her up that I moved to sleep in our living room. It turned out when neither Husband or I were sleeping in the bedroom with Lotta she slept better and so did I (Husband always sleeps well :)). It took some days for me to be ready to move her but now we have. A lot of things have gotten easier now that her stuff is in one place but the night feeding now means me getting all up and going to her room and that's a bit tiring. Lotta eats so whole heartedly and hungrily that I haven't the heart to force her out of it, she will in due time stop needing the 3 or 4 am feeding I'm sure.

A lesser thing but nontheless important to me is that I have a new mobile phone. I really liked my old one, but the battery was getting old and also I kind of wanted a mobile with more memory since I'm prone to taking a lot of photos. So, a new one I have. Its a Nokia (5220) although I'm not too impressed with their policy when it comes to how they treat their employees. However, we have at least four Nokia chargers in our household so it felt like the easier choice after all. I like the new phone but it doesn't have any of the old tunes and I liked those :).

Another big thing is that we've found a house we like. However, we can't buy it :(. Not yet anyway. We have tonight made a decision about the real estate agent we'll hire to sell our flat so that is finally settled but when our flat finally gets sold is anybody's guess and before it's sold we can't buy. The house is on the market for a very reasonable price so it's very likely it'll sell fast.

We're not selling ours for a huge profit either but for some reason it seems to be pretty hard to get apartments sold in our neigbourhood. Nobody seems to really know why. The economical decline in the world ain't doing us any favors when it comes to selling either. Against all odds I am still stubbornly allowing myself to hope that the house is THE house. It probably isn't but one can always hope.

What's special about it you ask? Not much really but there's just something about it. There are practical things such as the fact that the bus to Turku goes on the other side of the street from the lot. Husband's commute to his work would be pretty much the same as now. The lot is really big so there's plenty of space. There's a really well designed kitchen with plenty of counter space. A toilet upstairs and downstairs and a separate shower. And again there's plenty of space.

Then there are silly and even less convenient things such as a sauna which is veeeery old and in a separate building but that's exactly what I'd like; Husband, not that much but I would. There's something resembling a spring behind the house down a slope. When it's dry it dries up but I like the idea it's there.

There's even a swimming pool. Seriously! It's ridiculously small, absolutely useless most of the year and a pain in the bum to keep clean and we'd get rid of it if we got the house but I like the silliness of it being there ;). There's even a small potato field on the lot! As I said the lot is kinda big. Unlike my friend mama L I've never been to much into the color green but the house is green and there's a lot of green in the interoir of the house, too, but I don't mind, I just like the house. It remains to be seen wether it wants to become ours, though, but I really really really do wish - and pray - it would. If it doesn't I'm sure it'll be a splendid home for whoever buys it and God has something even better in store for us. But... still.... I r e a l l y like the house.