One thing we love about the new house is its level of coziness. This is a cozy house, both in size and in feel. I think it will feel even more cozy once I get more decorating finished! We are not really missing the 1100 square feet we lost in the move.
For us, one of the best things is the set-up of the bedrooms. In the old house it was hard to hear the kids from their rooms, especially at night. Add in making treks up and down the stairs in the middle of the night to check blood sugar, my paranoia about not being able to hear Anna if she had trouble during the night, and it was not a good combination. So, a one-story house was on the top of our list while we were house hunting. I really expected that we would probably end up with a split floor plan, master on one side of the house, bedrooms on the other. That would have been fine. But what we ended up with was even better! We have a long hallway off of the living room, at the end of the hallway there is an enlarged "landing" area with some built in storage, off of the landing are 3 single doors- Anna's room, Alex's room and the guest bathroom, and one double door- the master bedroom.
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| The view from my door way. |
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| Looking in on Anna. |
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| Looking in on Alex. |
Now, don't get me wrong, there are certain moments that I wish they were back upstairs. But the trade off has been worth it. More peaceful sleep for all of us.
Gosh...I sure do love those kids.
