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Here is my new listing, just a great little starter home!
This adorable little 3 bedroom 2 bath home has more space than you think! Extra long driveway to two car garage plus 2 additional rooms off the garage and a workshop with laundry hook-ups! Natural gas hooked up to the property. It has a very nice little covered patio in the backyard.
It has happened, the holidays are rapidly approaching and full scale chaos is just around the corner. Thanksgiving is next week and the kids are coming home! - AAUGH! I'm not saying that I don't relish this chance to see the babies and the kids and have everyone all together, in fact that the very best part - the AAUUGHH is for all the work to do before this happens. You know what I'm talking about. The carpets have to be cleaned. The shower in the second bath which hasn't worked in months has to be fixed. Babies and toddlers will be in the house - which is definetly NOT childproof! - I don't worry about them breaking stuff, I worry about them eating stuff. Stuff that I would never consider eating, babies and toddlers will eat.
I did seriously consider taking a suite at a nearby resort, but ruled out that option. The only other option is to clean like mad, crawl around my home and put stuff away and clean it again.
One year, when I was a newly familied young person, my mother decided that we would all just rent a three bedroom in a resort in Oceanside. We had our Thanksgiving dinner at this really posh resaurant and me, my husband and our baby girl joined with my parents and yournger sister eating at this huge table. My beautiful baby girl didn't like her dinner. In fact, she hated it, she hated the restaurant, she probably hated the little fluffly dress I had her in and she wanted to make sure the whole restaurant knew it. She THREW her plate across the room like a champion frizbee player. Yup, everyone in the restaurant knew.
The thing about Thanksgiving is that real families can be really messy. Literally and metaphorically. That was the last time I took my Thanksgiving public. So, here we are.
Usually, Thanksgiving at my house is pretty tame. We all sit around eating too much and talking all at once, I look around the table at all the different personalities and all the beautiful people who sit around me and I feel so very blessed. I'm always the one who gets all emo when we say our thanks. Thanksgiving really is my favorite holiday. No expectations really, feed everyone and be together. That's all.
So, although I still have a lot of work to do at my house this week, I know it's all going to be worth it.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
Meanwhile Real Estate keeps going. Only 714 Active, residential listings in Shasta MLS, 287 of those in Redding. If you want a bargain, there are only 12 homes priced under 100K.
