When you go out to breakfast early...

If you have children who wake with the sun, you might consider one day going out to breakfast a little early.

You might envision a quiet morning at the local bakery sipping coffee.

And this might happen... for a record of about 30 minutes.

Then you might look at your watch and realize you have 30 minutes before swimming class starts.

You might consider going home.

Then you might realize that it is a pain to drive home, unload the kids from the car and reload them 20 minutes later.

So you might decide to go look at the coveted lots to see which ones have sold.

You might not be surprised to still see available lots.

Then you might drive down a street not normally travelled.

And you might see some really big, huge and very expensive houses.

Then you might see this house perched by itself.

Then your spouse might pick up the sheet of paper like he always does while commenting about the sweeping views.

And he might announce that this house is not so huge and not so expensive as all the other houses in the neighborhood.

Then you might forget about it for awhile while you pay attention to kids swimming.

Then after swimming you might start talking about the house again.

And during naptime, your husband might just pick up the phone and call the real estate agent.

And you might just schedule an appointment to see the house.

The kitchen might look something like this:

And there might be a walk in pantry in the kitchen.

And there might be a wine cooler built in.



And you might love the house.

And the agent might tell you about the "very motivated to sell builder" who has had this house "on the market for 6 months" and beg you to "just make an offer please".

And you jolt yourself back to reality and keep your lips tight.

And you might have to comfort your son who fell down the stairs.

And you might leave.

And this might be the topic of conversation for the rest of your weekend.

Your spouse might even use the words "obviously meant to be".

You might try to figure out how to buy this house.

You might start phoning family in real estate and mortgage lending for their thoughts.

You might just ache looking at the pictures.

You might cry thinking about someone else getting this house.

You might sob when you think about how it appraised for $40K more than the listing price.

You might feel a little sick to your stomach trying to figure out how to get your own house fixed up and on the market.

Then you might just go sit down and watch a movie and try to forget about it all.

You might be able to.

And then again, you might not.

All because you went to breakfast early.