LeAnn Rimes’ bachelorette pad is going from love nest to full-on family home. E! News has learned that Eddie Cibrian and his children are moving into her Hidden Hills house in Calabasas next week.
“Eddie and the kids are moving in with Leann to save money since Eddie lost his CSI job,” says a source. “Mason is moving into the dog’s old room, and Jake is moving into LeAnn’s office.”
Rimes purchased the home, which is a few blocks from where Eddie lived with his soon to be ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, shortly after the two went public with their relationship last year. (Cibrian and his ex currently share equal custody of their two boys.)
“It just made sense for them,” a source tells PEOPLE. “Eddie’s lease was up and LeAnn’s home was bigger and already familiar to Eddie’s sons.” (Cibrian shares custody of Mason, 7, and Jake, 3, with his ex, model Brandi Glanville.)
“It’s somewhere the kids know and it allows Mason to stay in the same school district, which was important to them, that there’s continuity for him,” the source says. “They take [moving in with the kids] with a lot of responsibility. They want to make sure that it was done in the right way.”
According to the source, the move to the gated community in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley won’t “be an overnight thing,” but will happen over the course of the next month.
Rimes’s rep confirms the news, telling PEOPLE, “they’re excited for this happy new journey.”
The country singer, whose covers album “Lady and Gentlemen” is due Oct. 5, is excited to let Mason and Jake decorate two of her former guest bedrooms so they can feel at home, says the source, who adds that the boys “love LeAnn’s dogs, and the swimming pool and the backyard.”
With Rimes’s divorce from chef Dean Sheremet finalized in June, and Cibrian’s divorce pending, could an engagement be on the horizon?
Says the source: “They’re just enjoying the moment and are hopeful about their future together.”
And it looks like Cibrian is already carrying his weight around the house…Sunday Rimes tweeted, “@eddiecibrian showing me how to do yard wrk! Think it’s the first time I’ve ever paid attention to yard wrk.”
But it looks like the out of work actor may not be penniless for long.
Last Thursday Rimes tweeted, “hotel room
tmrw! Eddies working today and so am I, so looking forward to a second of a break!”
Maybe Eddie’s trimming hedges as the new hot gardener on Desperate Housewives?
Blah. Actually, it kind of amazes me that Eddie is so gung-ho about this whole endeavor. He doesn’t seem to be having any mixed feelings whatsoever. Perhaps he’s totally content to be a kept man. By the way, I just wanted to put up one tweet from LeAnn that almost made me barf. She’s so saccharine, it hurts.
