Not Everyone's Mama

We finally got into the manufactured home yesterday to look at it.  (I was informed that they are not called mobile homes anymore.)  It is HUGE.  When you walk in and go to the right there is a big bedroom, another big bedroom, one of the bathrooms, and then the master bedroom.  Both of the bedrooms are big enough my kids can share and not fall all over each other.  Room for all of their dressers, desks, beds, etc.  In the master bedroom there are 2 huge closets, which is awesome because Pato is a clothes hog and only gave me about 1/4 of our old closet.  (I know, so wrong!)  The bath off the master bedroom has a corner Jacuzzi tub and a stand up shower.  Loved it!

go back out and that’s the living room which I think I will actually turn into my office/room for the birds’ cages, Nano’s train table (someone on ReUseIt offered him a train table since his was destroyed by the water), the girls’ kitchen (which I am hoping I can get the smell out of – it’s their favorite toy), and I want to put a couple of bookshelves in there instead of stacking my books on my desk.  Then you go to the left and there is the dining room – to the left of that is a family room with a fire place, and then off the dining room is a huge kitchen with an island, sky lights, all the appliances I need – dishwasher, fridge, gas stove (which I’m finally getting used to after living at my brother’s for 3 weeks), and a garbage disposal, which I’ve missed so much since my apartment building burned down.

Off the kitchen is a laundry room….woot woot!  Finally somewhere to put my washer/dryer other than in the garage!  I’m hoping it still works.  I only used them for a year and a half before we had to store them away for 6 years.  They will still work right.  Off the other side of the kitchen was a storage area.

Outside there’s a huge wooden porch which needs painted, but I’m good with that.

In the back there’s a shed that is almost big enough to park Pato’s grand prix in.  He needs that for his tools, the kids’ bikes,  the stroller, etc. 

Here I was seeing all the fun features, how much space there was, etc.  Pato is all, this needs fixed, this needs fixed, this needs fixed.  The court manager said he thought we could get the guy to go down to $50,000 with the repairs that need made.  Pato is hoping that taking my dad on Saturday and having him look around, estimate what needs done, etc will help have the guy lower more.  He is having my dad sit in on the negotiations. 

I’m not allowed to go.  I’ll smile and say, you want $53?  We’ll take it!  I have no poker face when I want something.

The kids have already planned their rooms.  Jordan wants 2 walls to be army green and the other 2 to be camo.  Then he wants me to paint his loft bed black. 

The girls’ want aqua walls with clouds on top and a grass/flower scene on the bottom.    If we do that we’ll have to call in Aunt Shelley who is much better at that stuff than I am. 

Pato wants to pull up the carpet in the living room, dining room, family room and put down wood laminate.  (See, I’m not the only one dreaming.)

I want the living room/family room to be a deep red.  I want the kitchen to be a lemony- soft yellow, not too bright, not off white.  I want white accents and white soft eyelet like curtains to make it bright and sunshiny in there.

We haven’t even signed the contract and I’ve already got it picked out.  I want to go to Home Depot and look at paint palettes.  We should sign the contract first right?

Wish us luck!!!

Have a great day!

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