My DH and I have been looking for a home for a couple months now. His daughter and my son both know we have been looking and that within the next months we have to move. We chose to leave them out of the house hunting process and never took them with us as its hard to discuss finances and its hard enough deciding on a house together with two adult opinions and we didn't want the kids to be put through liking houses and we not get them. We'll today we signed a contract on a house. Obviously its a process and our closing on the house isn't till mid January. I'm just unsure of when its appropriate to tell the kids. I mean the realtor when we were looking told us we shouldn't be excited until all is said and done and you have a key in hand because anything can happen. I told my DH last night I think we should wait until we close to tell them because its pointless to tell them and show them and they like it and something happen and the deal fall through. He didn't like that idea but agreed to keep it to ourselves until then. What do you think? Should we tell them sooner that we found our home? Or wait until we know its for sure? We will start slowly in the next couple months packing things and getting rid of things but we can always just tell them we are preparing to move since they do know about the move. I just don't want to get their hopes up and this not work out and us be back to looking again. What would you do?