My Little Real Estate Problem

As Clint's mom likes to say, "We Cresaps are really good at obsessing." Anyone who knows me well knows that real estate is my little addiction. It's the thing that I turn to when I need an escape from doing the things I should be doing but don't feel like doing. You know, like meals, dishes, laundry and putting the kids to bed. Well, March was the month that I really fell down a real estate hole. I let the mortgage commercials get to me and thought, "We might really regret not taking advantage of these low prices and interest rates!" After all I could see houses like this lovely one on the east bench in Layton. It has 4,000 square feet 5 beds/3 baths, hot tub, views, community pool, courts and private access to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. This house would cost 1/2 what we're paying in rent! Seemed like a good idea to me. And I can be very convincing, so Clint let me start exploring options. Many missed meals, piles of laundry and tired children later I realized that it wasn't a good idea to buy a house when Clint may not be retiring from the Navy yet, or even if he does, when he doesn't know what his second career will be or where we will be living! My thanks to Clint for being really patient with the insanity. And I'm back to being a full-time wife and mom. It turns out it really does take my full-time effort to keep a happy family! Not to mention that we live in such a lovely neighborhood where all the boys have wonderful friends, Clint comes home for lunch everyday and we couldn't ask for better neighbors, ward or school. It has been a lesson in quieting my restless feet and being where I am.