Don't get me wrong, I LOVE owning our own home with a yard and a garage! I love it. We have a washer and dryer and a dishwasher so I don't have to do things by hand anymore. Yeah! I love our basement that the kids can run around in and Brendan can have his office. I love the fact that we can take chalk and go out and draw on the driveway, or take chairs and sit on the deck.
But what I don't like, and quite frankly makes my head spin, is home maintenance. I have no clue what I am doing when it comes to appliances breaking down, changing filters, or yard/garden work. I do know there is a learning curve, but I think my brain just cannot keep up! Things need doing at certain times and I find myself pushing back "deadlines" because I'm at a loss.
We do have a home service plan for the major fixes, but I will be darned if I am going to pay thousands of dollars for the little things that we should be able to keep up with.
For instance, our lawn. It is in sorry shape. The previous homeowners stopped taking care of it once the home was on the market. We should have said something, should have caught it, but we didn't. So now we are stuck with a sad, sad yard and not a lot of experience. I refuse to spend a few thousand on sod and have it not really work or work well.
So I sent Brendan out with seed and fertilizer and then we water the heck out of things, hoping for the best. Hehe. I know we will eventually get used to this home ownership thing and come up with a plan and a system. But until then we seem to be treading water. Oh, and Brendan likes to include the kids in home projects, I think it is cute.
