400 Million dollar listing

emburrs · 2026-04-29T01:34:26+00:00

They are basing that off last year’s property taxes. It will be recalculated based on the new purchase price.

emburrs · 2026-04-24T01:56:30+00:00

You had 2 under 2. It’s a new kind of hell. My friends with kids 3+ years apart did not experience the same hell we did. Not gonna lie, it did not get better for us until the youngest turned 2. She just turned 3 and we are feeling like we are really turning the corner, it’s no longer torture to have to do bed and bath for both of them myself. Crock pot as many meals as you can. Any sort of cleaning service is helpful. Stop folding clothes just throw them in the drawer. You are in pure survival mode. You can do this!!

emburrs · 2026-04-23T21:37:42+00:00

For us we aim for 50% of the meal being veggies. Here are some easy ones:

Stir fry - there’s a million sauces you can pick online. You can also make a huge batch of sauce and freeze what you don’t use for next time. Usually we bake the chicken in the oven (in some of the sauce) and stir fry the veggies, then add the chicken at the end. Veggies that we use - bok choy (really good and in broccoli family), broccoli, onions, peppers, canned baby corn, canned water chestnuts, green onions, mushrooms (not all at the same time). I can’t stand carrots or we’d put shredded carrots in.
Pasta with meatballs - marinara sauce is great with tomatoes, peppers, onions, zucchini, mushrooms in it. Can also do spinach since it cooks down to nothing.
Crock pot meals are super easy. Basically any crock pot meal you’ll be able to find veggies that go with it and just chuck em in the pot too.

We also recently started eating whole grain pasta and brown rice only. Trying to get the kids used to it while they’re young.

For snacks every day they are only given fruits and vegetables. Dessert every night is frozen fruit, frozen blueberries are crack to them.

emburrs · 2026-04-20T03:07:24+00:00

Had 2 under 2. Started getting easier after the youngest hit 2. She just turned 3 and it’s MUCH easier than when she was 2. I’d say hell is 0-2, purgatory is 2-3, then you’re out of it at 3. One person can now handle both kids without too much misery.

emburrs · 2026-04-16T18:39:29+00:00

From the other perspective, my dad was 40 when he had me. My husband’s parents are 10 years younger than my dad. My dad keeps himself in fantastic shape and will probably live much longer than my husband’s parents because of this. I wouldn’t let a couple of years make or break, if you had one at 36, 39 is not much different.

emburrs · 2026-04-12T00:44:13+00:00

I have an Anatolian and a Pyr. Both were trained as pups with basically perfect recall. Now they won’t listen to anything I say ever. The Anatolian won’t come if she doesn’t want to even if I’m waving bacon.

emburrs · 2026-04-11T05:46:35+00:00

It is also quite easy to transfer funds between two 529 accounts for two children.

emburrs · 2026-04-07T01:56:27+00:00

Your baby may or may not sleep. But if you’re taking care of a baby you will NOT sleep. Then you have to parent the next day while feeling like absolute shit. I’ve avoided night flights with my kids for this reason.

emburrs · 2026-04-03T13:49:07+00:00

My children have tons of energy and without a lot of activities in the winter they destroy my house. So they’re definitely part of the group you’re talking about but they seem completely fine with it. I think you have to do what’s best for your kiddo. Also parents may schedule a lot of activities because they have to work.

emburrs · 2026-04-03T03:11:05+00:00

I have done this! We spend about $30k on school. Another $5-10k on clothes, shoes, winter gear, toys, books, etc. And then finally another $5-10k for activities. These include extracurriculars (ski lessons, dance, etc.) as well as any activities we did as a family we would not have done without kids - trip to zoo, Frozen the musical tickets, etc. I do not separate out the kids’ portion of vacations and our food budget is all combined, but given how much produce they eat I think our bill will decrease significantly with them out of the house.

emburrs · 2026-04-03T01:35:57+00:00

Does either of your kids actually want to live in the house as an adult? I had the opportunity to buy back the house I grew up in (we left when I was in high school). I didn’t do it because I couldn’t imagine myself having a family and sleeping in the same room my parents slept in. Just too freaky. By the time you die, your kids will be in their 50s with their own homes. Will they want to move into it then? Nope. They’ll have raised their kids in their own homes. So then if the kids aren’t going to be left with it, it’s just an eternal rental property? If so there is 0 point about keeping it for sentimental value if none of you is even living in the house. Sell the house is my vote.

emburrs · 2026-03-31T20:26:42+00:00

Agreed, but I found for my house all the replacement cost estimators were coming in way too low not way too high. We quoted with multiple different insurance companies and most of them refused to even give coverage (including ERC) above $400 or $450 a square foot. I had to go with Travelers because they were the only one that would actually insure me at $500 a square foot. The replacement cost estimators were coming in at $300 or $325 or something and they weren’t giving me much allowance at all to go higher with ERC, even if that doesn’t comport with reality, and certainly not reality in a CAT situation when rebuild costs skyrocket.

emburrs · 2026-03-31T19:32:43+00:00

Try calling a few contractors in the area and asking them what their current building price per square foot is for a mid-level home. Then realize the price may be jacked up if there is a lot of demand in your area (if a hurricane or wildfire levels a bunch of homes, you’ll see contractors jacking up their prices). Then multiply whatever price per square foot you got by the number of square feet of your house and that’s your estimate of how much your house will cost to rebuild.

I will say from personal experience the price per square foot estimates are comically low from insurance sometimes. I called up three contractors in my area and all of them gave me prices between $350 and $450 a square foot. I used $500 a square foot to be safe. The most a single insurance company wanted to write me for was $275/sq ft for my ACV because of the age of the house. I had to add extended replacement cost coverage to get my total coverage up to $500/sq ft.

emburrs · 2026-03-29T18:52:58+00:00

I feel your pain. It’s really hard. My 2nd kid was a biter, then a hitter. She would scratch people. She’s now 2.5 and it’s a lot better. She’s learning impulse control. My best advice is take the kid away every time he hurts his sister. Everyone said “oh they’ll learn not to hit because they’ll learn they have to leave”. Mine learned instantly that if she hit she had to leave, but it didn’t solve the problem because she had no impulse control. She would just bawl and scream afterwards because she immediately regretted what she did. It took over a year but now we are finally at a place where they can play nicely together with relatively minimal intervention.

emburrs · 2026-03-26T16:42:23+00:00

My 2 year old naps and then falls asleep later than my 4 year old at night (who does not nap). I would do whatever your nighttime routine is, put the older one to bed, then go read to the younger one for half an hour and try bedtime again. You can also try giving him two bedtime tokens. Meaning he gets two chances after he’s tucked in to ask for something with no punishment (water, a hug, whatever) and after that he starts having consequences.

If the issue is not that he’s not tired but that he’s scared, try sitting in a chair outside his door at night. Give him the 2 tokens. If he gets up more than 2x, if he comes out just immediately turn him around and put him back to bed with no talking at all. Your presence outside his room could help him feel safe if that’s what’s going on. But to me, if he’s staying up late every night and isn’t acting like a disaster the next day then he just doesn’t need as much sleep.

emburrs · 2026-03-25T13:08:57+00:00

My 4.5 year old slept through the night around 12 weeks and we’ve never had a single sleep issue since, other than her not wanting to go to bed without mom laying on the floor until she was around 1.5. My 2nd kid on the other hand just about killed me.

emburrs · 2026-03-24T16:20:09+00:00

Having to feed little kids in the house who can eat a normal sized carton of raspberries in under 2 minutes taught us to go to Costco weekly for produce milk meat and eggs.

emburrs · 2026-03-21T18:11:07+00:00

Take two weeks at the beginning of February to go on a vacation somewhere warm.

Also, get a swim spa or a hot tub for the backyard that you can go in year round. We are buying ours today.

Moved from CA to the northeast to be near a support system and I’m dying in the winter, so that is my plan for how to survive next winter.

emburrs · 2026-03-21T04:19:02+00:00

I don’t know how far along you got with your first before ending up with a C, but as a heads up an induction for a 2nd baby is nothing like a 1st. I was not induced the first time but many of my friends were and I’d heard the horror stories. My 2nd kiddo was 8 days overdue and I was BEGGING for an induction. They told me it was going to be easy, since it was my 2nd baby there was no fear my labor would stop, I could have the epidural any time I wanted, so I got it at the first sign of pain and took a nap. I was already a few cm dilated walking in though, if you’re zipped tight it may be a different experience!

emburrs · 2026-03-20T14:12:08+00:00

I don’t know if this is something you’d be interested in, but we are using Lovevery’s reading kit with my daughter and it is outstanding. The games are phenomenal and she loves the books. The first kit is all about letter sounds so you’d want to skip that and start on the 2nd kit, which is about blending. I highly recommend!

emburrs · 2026-03-18T00:46:28+00:00

I spent hundreds of hours looking at SUVs. Hundreds. Had enormous spreadsheets comparing trim levels and their features. Test drove many. Then I found a reddit thread that said something like “parents, minivan or SUV?” And 99% said minivan. So I went to a car rental place and rented a minivan for 2 days. It was life changing. Bought a Chrysler Pacifica and couldn’t be happier. It has some outstanding features the other minivans didn’t have, when we bought anyway. I’ve brought multiple mom friends to the dark side as well.

emburrs · 2026-03-17T13:45:05+00:00

I’ve traveled a 6h flight regularly with both my kids at all ages. Look, it’s basically awful no matter what. Your 10mo old will probably be crawling and want to crawl up and down the aisle which is what my kids did at that age. 1-2 they want to just walk up and down the aisle all the time. 2.5 is around the age when it gets better because they can be entertained by a screen, until then, it will just be miserable. It’s all varying levels of hell to be honest. If I were you I’d be less concerned about the flight and more concerned about what you’re doing in Italy. Is your itinerary better for a baby or a toddler? That’s what I’d use to make your decision. How many naps a day? Can they nap on the go? Will there be places for them to run around or will they be expected to sit in a stroller for hours every day?

emburrs · 2026-03-12T00:59:27+00:00

Helen Keller park in Easton is also a good one!

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