I'm back from Colorado.
I got back from Colorado on Saturday. Just in time for the Easter Bunny to arrive! :-)
I had a really good time. I just sat for 11 days by myself in the mountains in Estes Park in my in-laws rental house. I watched TV and read and it was wonderful to be able to do those things without interruption! :-) I did go to Rocky Mountain National Park a few days and just sat by the steams and listened to the quiet.
I didn't watch a ton of reality shows but I did watch a couple like Little People Big World. I think we need to have our own, Kellam's the Frugal Family, show. :-) I could just have Mike follow me around all day with a video camera.
Poor Mike has re-affirmed his desire to NEVER be a stay at home dad! LOL Even though my mom came over a lot, took David some days and did all the laundry he still was out numbered and we don't even homeschool! hehehe
I have to say that I am very thankful for my hubby and mom taking over so I could get a break. It took about a week for my nerves to stop twitching and then I started to feel somewhat better.
It was a little frustrating. I was hoping that my being so sick lately was from all the commotion at home. Even though it helped being away from everyone my problem is I just have an illness that we are going to have to try and work around. We just have to many irons in the fire right now and we are going to try and start fixing or getting rid of some.
The first one is after going back there we decided that we don't want to live in Colorado anymore. We feel like for some reason God wants us to stay here in Kansas and has taken that desire away from us. I have no clue why we are supposed to stay here in Kansas but I guess some day we will find out. For right now we are just going to trust what God wants us to do and do it.
So..... since the decision to stay here has been made #2 is we are going to start looking for another house here and move. I would love to be moved by mid-June but that's only 8 weeks away so that may be very optimistic. I just really don't want to move in the July or August heat. We are going to start looking this weekend. We are going to find a house first and then try and sell this one. (Anyone know of a good realtor in Wichita? If so email me!)
The office is in the master bedroom and the family room is the master bedroom right now so we are going to have to "move" a lot in our house before we can sell it. We don't want to move stuff around until we know that we have found the right house first.
We decided to move and sell it because my muscles didn't hurt nearly as bad in my in-laws ranch house as it does at home. It's because this house is a bi-level and going up and down the stairs all day is just too hard on me.
We are going to look for a ranch and something that is at least 2000 sq. ft. We are in 1600 sq. ft right now and even though it's ok we don't want to move again in the near future so we would like to get something that we can stay in for awhile.
We are also going to have to come up with some $ for a good down payment. We are going to see if we can get at least 20K. We are going to be having 2 major sales in the next 2 months so hopefully that will give us the money to do it. The houses we are looking at are around 125 K and we can only afford about 100K so we need the down payment if we are going to move. We won't get much out of this one.
We also got 4K back on our taxes! We had accidentally overpaid so that will be a great start! We would use it to pay off the rest of our debt which is about 5K but it's at 0% interest right now so we would rather put that money on a house that will hopefully help me feel better.
Well, that's the short version for now. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm back!
Tawra
I had a really good time. I just sat for 11 days by myself in the mountains in Estes Park in my in-laws rental house. I watched TV and read and it was wonderful to be able to do those things without interruption! :-) I did go to Rocky Mountain National Park a few days and just sat by the steams and listened to the quiet.
I didn't watch a ton of reality shows but I did watch a couple like Little People Big World. I think we need to have our own, Kellam's the Frugal Family, show. :-) I could just have Mike follow me around all day with a video camera.
Poor Mike has re-affirmed his desire to NEVER be a stay at home dad! LOL Even though my mom came over a lot, took David some days and did all the laundry he still was out numbered and we don't even homeschool! hehehe
I have to say that I am very thankful for my hubby and mom taking over so I could get a break. It took about a week for my nerves to stop twitching and then I started to feel somewhat better.
It was a little frustrating. I was hoping that my being so sick lately was from all the commotion at home. Even though it helped being away from everyone my problem is I just have an illness that we are going to have to try and work around. We just have to many irons in the fire right now and we are going to try and start fixing or getting rid of some.
The first one is after going back there we decided that we don't want to live in Colorado anymore. We feel like for some reason God wants us to stay here in Kansas and has taken that desire away from us. I have no clue why we are supposed to stay here in Kansas but I guess some day we will find out. For right now we are just going to trust what God wants us to do and do it.
So..... since the decision to stay here has been made #2 is we are going to start looking for another house here and move. I would love to be moved by mid-June but that's only 8 weeks away so that may be very optimistic. I just really don't want to move in the July or August heat. We are going to start looking this weekend. We are going to find a house first and then try and sell this one. (Anyone know of a good realtor in Wichita? If so email me!)
The office is in the master bedroom and the family room is the master bedroom right now so we are going to have to "move" a lot in our house before we can sell it. We don't want to move stuff around until we know that we have found the right house first.
We decided to move and sell it because my muscles didn't hurt nearly as bad in my in-laws ranch house as it does at home. It's because this house is a bi-level and going up and down the stairs all day is just too hard on me.
We are going to look for a ranch and something that is at least 2000 sq. ft. We are in 1600 sq. ft right now and even though it's ok we don't want to move again in the near future so we would like to get something that we can stay in for awhile.
We are also going to have to come up with some $ for a good down payment. We are going to see if we can get at least 20K. We are going to be having 2 major sales in the next 2 months so hopefully that will give us the money to do it. The houses we are looking at are around 125 K and we can only afford about 100K so we need the down payment if we are going to move. We won't get much out of this one.
We also got 4K back on our taxes! We had accidentally overpaid so that will be a great start! We would use it to pay off the rest of our debt which is about 5K but it's at 0% interest right now so we would rather put that money on a house that will hopefully help me feel better.
Well, that's the short version for now. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm back!
Tawra
posted by Tawra Jean at 1:53 PM
5 Comments:
Hooray! I'm so glad you're back writing again. My hubby and I are house-hunting right now. We thought we wanted to live in Indiana but recently feel pulled to be in Florida. You will be in my prayers--- keep us in yours! Feel better and good luck with the house hunt. :)
Welcome home!! So glad you enjoyed yourself and got a nice break. I love reading your articles and have missed reading your blog. :)
I missed your blog, too, but was soooooooo happy for you that you got a break!!!
Gonna pray for your house-hunting/moving/down-payment process, too......and that the show, "Frugal Living with the Kellams" will become a reality soon. ;-)
---Kimberly
I'm so glad you had some quiet time, and got home safely. It was so good to meet you while you were here in Estes! I'll keep you in my prayers re: finding the right, affordable home. :)
Peggy
Hi Peggy! I was great to meet you too! I'm sorry we didn't get together while I was there. I wasn't feeling that great for the first week or so and then I just did nothing for the rest of the time to try and catch up on my energy. :-)
I have been wondering how is your sister doing? You can email me and let me know.
Tawra
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