travel with a baby

WOW
Traveling with a baby is HARD! I knew it would be but it was difficult:)
Ok, so I knew it would be HARD but I didn't realize how exhausted I would feel.
Zach and I traveled to Carbondale, IL to search for housing for the next few years. Zach will be going to Law School at Southern Illinois University. We sold our house here in Utah in just 6 weeks and we were looking to buy a home/condo in Illinois. Well, we got there, looked around, called a realtor and started looking at houses. The cheap ones we saw online were definatly yucky up close and we ended up falling for a more expensive house than we had planned on. It was new but very reasonibly priced and we made an offer. The house is less than a year old, ranch/rambler style and had 3 beds, 2 baths, fenced yard. Anyway, it was great. They were asking $116,000, yes I know, that's cheap, so we offered 113 and they countered at 114, we accepted and went home. THEN we stared looking in to financing, which wasn't bad but the closing costs (high for the price of the home) and the taxes (outrageous 2100/year) and what those factors did to our "low monthly payment." Welllllll. We backed out, lost our earnest money and we are renting a new mobile home on a 9 month lease. That way we can leave for summer internships and not pay mortgage and rent elsewhere. OK, so that's the story. Our home here is just over a year old, and I love it. We put it under contract for $220,000 and are scheduled to close July 10th.
That's the story of our travel- kinda or at least the results.