Our offer on the townhouse in New Jersey was accepted today. We had to compete with another buyer, but it appears that we won. New Jersey real estate is crazy compared to Connecticut. I’ll blog more about this once we’re firmly in contract.
We spent the day in Manhattan, taking Laini to [American Girl Place](http://www.americangirl.com). She had been begging for one of the dolls since forever, and we agreed to buy her the doll at the store for her birthday (instead of having a party). [The doll](http://store.americangirl.com/pls/ag/ag_agt_splash?catid=48533) is expensive, but it’s well made and very cute. I would have killed for one of these when I was Laini’s age. Laini named her brown-eyed, brown-haired doll “Daisy.” The store was packed. Three stories of American Girl, including a hair salon (you can get your doll’s hair braided for $20…more than I spend to get real haircuts for the girls!), restaurant, theatre and rooms and rooms of clothing, accessories and dolls. What a racket! But it was a fun day. Relatives knew this was an American Girl birthday year, so Laini’s aunt bought her doll-to-be an outfit and her cousins got her a gift certificate which helped offset some of today’s expenses.
Now we’re figuring out exactly how we’re going to manage the move. We’ve decided to sell 90% of our furniture before we leave. The style of the new place is very different and most of our stuff won’t “fit” physically or aesthetically. Plus, it will be cheaper to move less and start over there.
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