Sebastian’s Quiver

After over a month of back and forth and waiting and edge of your seat anticipation, we have FINALLY sold our house in Decatur, Georgia.  I’ll certainly miss it - I was there for over 7 years - and selling it in a down housing market certainly sucks, but overall I’m glad to be rid of it.  It was on the market for 8 months even though the Decatur market wasn’t that bad.  Problem was the house is a two bedroom, and apparently in the current market, they are a lot harder to sell.  But now we are free and clear of it and we don’t have two house payments.  I don’t know if I’m going to know how to live in Portland and not pinch pennies.

One of the most exciting things is that we can now start looking at houses here in Portland.  True, our lease isn’t up until April, but we already paid last months rent, and first month’s mortgage is free, so if we buy a house in February, the month of March is totally free for us.  We’ll probably start looking in earnest in December, if we can last that long.

Taking a hit on the house in Decatur certainly sucks big time, but the housing market in Portland, which has been totally ridiculous for the past several years, is finally coming back down to earth.  Any money that we didn’t make on the house in Decatur should be made up by the housing drop here. (That is what we call the silver-lining-analysis.)

For your patience with the blog, I’m throwing in some extra photos for your enjoyment.  I dug deep into the photo archive to come up with some special photos that have yet to see the light of day.  These are photos from Sebastian’s six month birthday.  I was supposed to have a separate, exclusive post for these, but that never happened, so I’m tacking them onto the end of this post.  Here, in all their glory, are the photos of Sebastian’s first meal of solid food (rice cereal).  You’ll see that he wasn’t too enamored with the flavor, which he has since come to enjoy (those photos will be posted at a later date).