My Newbie Birdroom...

[Grant]

So cool! Now you need one of my custom designer aviaries to fill up some of that space.

[Ginene]

Nanajennie
Lol, Jennie!!! I like the sunny room as the bird room option too! But if you're going to be putting you house on the market...keep in mind that buyers have no imagination, so your house has to be designed to sell. Meaning, staging your house so people can see themselves living in it is key!!! I just did this to my moms house and it sold fast...and for the price she wanted too! So you may have to settle on a spare bedroom until you are in your new place. Sorry to be Debbie Downer, my friend.
Btw...I just charged $60 for organic hulled millet and ABBA Nestling food (plus 2 perches and some coco fiber) for when my babies become fledglings. Gotta be ready!!!

[Ginene]

Grant
That would be amazing...but I would rather have one for my family room. I can live with regular cages in the bird room...its the rest of the house that has to be stunning .

[Asym]

It's beautiful and so very clean!

[Ginene]

Asym
Thank you, Ali!!! Its a mess right now! Lol!!!

[Nerien]

I just checked the real estate listings for my town. There are 324 single family homes for sale right now. 108 of them are listing for $1 million or more (up to $12 million). Another 16 are in the $950K to $999K. Ridiculous. They're just houses, most of them.

I'm not the dumpiest house in the neighborhood, I live in the dumpy side of town. We joke that we are the slums of this town, as our houses are all the small ones built back in the 50's and 60's, many as summer cottages around the lakes. These little houses still cost way more than they should. Funny, I have a 1200 square foot house, and that's considered tiny here. Was listening to someone talk about their "little cottage" up in the Adirondacks and how their three kids went stir crazy and were trying to kill each other when they were their for a week, since it was "only" 1500 square feet. (No....your kids went crazy without all their electronic entertainment devices because they no longer know how to think for themselves, and they tried to kill each other because you have never taught them the word No or not to hurt each other, you just don't notice what they're doing to each other in your big house--my daughter has come home from playdates with quite the tales--little sister spraying an entire can of hairspray under the door trying to force them to come out of her friend's bedroom, biting little brother just short of breaking skin because he had the TV remote, this little girl is 10 years old...). But anyway, we dumpy people take great pride in our dumpiness, and we stick together and vote down all the high-minded expensive, useless ideas the other sides of town come up with to spend money on. (Belgian block edging on the sidewalks on the three blocks of Main Street that even have sidewalks? Really?)

So I'm dumpy and crazy, and proud of it. No one has ever accused me of being normal!

[Nerien]

Lol!!! I hear ya, Ruth. We bought a 4 bedroom house, planning on filling it with children. But it turned out that God had different plans for us. So this house (that is too big and too expensive for us) provided us with the loan we needed for Lil Joe's adoption, a big living room to use as a Sensory Gym and a spare bedroom to use an ABA/OT/Speech Therapy classroom. It has also provided a beautiful basement apartment for my mom, which she moved into this past September. So even though we are a small family of 3, created through adoption, affected by Autism and are big house/therapy poor...I wouldn't change a thing... .

I love your story of your family. How absolutely wonderful!!!

[Ginene]

I love your story of your family. How absolutely wonderful!!!

Thank you!!! Your's too