Apartment Hunting With The Twins

On Friday we went apartment hunting. As you may recall, if you've been following our journey since the beginning, we just moved into our current apartment when we got the call asking us to care for twin girls in need of a home. Here they are 9 months later...

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We are so thankful to be adopting these beautiful girls! Our lives have changed in many ways, but we couldn't imagine it without them.

Why we're moving

As much as we love our apartment, we originally moved here thinking we'd need to be at this location for other jobs that we had at the time.

Those jobs ended up being shorter-term than we expected. And with our current work situation (@ironmanmatt is still applying for positions), we need to downsize and move someplace where we don't have to pay as much for transportation.

We currently live on a little hill, which means more greenery and quiet, but also means we can't walk to anywhere nearby.

We did attempt walking to a local "mamak" (or cafeteria) at the bottom of our hill but it was a long hike back up.

Apartment hunting

So on Friday, we visited an apartment complex in a nice (and not too expensive) neighborhood.

This week we plan on visiting another complex and then hopefully we can make our decision.

Gearing up for "the purge"

Wherever we end up, we'll probably be cutting our square footage in half! I'm already making the mental checklist of what to keep and what to sell/give away. We've done the "purge" so many times since we've been married, that it's really not intimidating like it used to be.

I know we don't have much for ourselves, but we have been given a lot of baby things. I will have to go through it and see what needs to be given back and what we can pass on.

Work's been ramping up (for me ... which was not part of the plan LOL) ... so we'll see how these next few weeks turn out!

The new apartment checklist

We have a checklist of all the things that have bothered us about past apartments that we wish we would've checked first ... but we always seem to find new things to look out for with each place we move into!

How about you? Anything you've loved or hated about past dwellings that we should be on the lookout for too?

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Thanks for joining us on this wild ride!

If you're interested in reading the rest of our story:

• Intro: Surprise, we have twins! The story behind why I fell off the face of Planet Steemit...
• Part 1: Babies can be victims of human trafficking too
• Part 2: Bringing home the twins
• Part 3: They don't come with a manual | Taking care of twins
• Part 4: Two love stories and understanding the twins' loss
• Part 5: Feeding the twins, feeding ourselves, and working full-time
• Part 6: Twins, not twins & going out with preemie babies
• Part 7: Taking a family vacation with twins to Cameron Highlands
• Part 8: Night intruder | Our vacation to Cameron Highlands continued
• Part 9: Ending the year as parents and celebrating the twins' first Christmas
• Part 10: What it takes to be the Superdad of twin babies
• Part 11: The twins eat solids and get new nicknames!
• Part 12: Adoption & Attachment | How a baby handles grief and loss
• Part 13: Infant survival swimming lessons with the twins | Our "Baby Minnows" go underwater
• Part 14: The Steemit Twins are cranky | Is it the state of crypto that's got them down?
• Part 15: The great formula scandal | What will the twins do?
• Part 16: Great moments in history began with baby "steps" | Dealing with racism as an adoptee
• Part 17: Wearing thin, but the twins are cute and I'm still thankful
• Part 18: What's better than a baby GIF? Twin baby GIFs! And teaching the twins to share
• Part 19: Typing a blog post while riding on the back of a mechanical bull

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