We started out with Mother's Day. The kids made me super sweet cards. And you can always count on your kids to have one of these gems thrown in the mix :p
Caleb surprised me and took the day off so I could take a night off from painting and enjoy some pizza and wine.
Speaking of painting, behind the flowers you can probably tell the kitchen is starting it's sad transformation back to beige.
Which brings us to the most important news of May.
Caleb and I have been talking about moving for I think over 2 years now. We loved our home, but we've found some things we'd probably change. We were hoping for a little more land. But most importantly, we needed to move before the kids would be in middle school. Their elementary is amazing and we've had a great experience there, but the middle school, not so much. In less than 2 weeks Casen will officially be a fourth grader (I can't believe it either,) so we realized we were starting to get down to the wire.
We met with a realtor and he said the area we lived in happened to be in really high demand and we would have no problems selling. We took it with a grain of salt, but pushed ahead in the process. The first one being, paint my kitchen. We got it all ready to go, had the professionals do all the video and photography work
....and less than 24 hours after our house was put on the market and 16 showings later, our house was sold.
And then Caleb and I had a bit of a minor freak out.
We had no idea the house would go that quick. And we now needed a new house.
We had three counties in mind that surround the one we currently live in so we would still be close to Caleb's work. We looked at a few houses and thought we found the one, so much so that we almost didn't go look at the last house of the day. But we walked into the last house and I told Caleb, this is our home. And we're really really hoping it is! Just waiting on the lovely inspection madness on both ends to finish up and the moving shall commence. It is the perfect location. A little bit off the beaten path, but super close to everything we've grown accustomed to. The closest commute we've found yet to Caleb's job. It's quite a bit more land than we're used to and the square footage is even more than our current house. Last but most important, really good schools.
I mean how can you pass up a house with a secret room :)
So the month of June will be spent doing lots and lots of packing. Leaving the home where we celebrated Arya's first birthday, Casen's first day of Kindergarten, and Caleb becoming a police officer. We'll be heading to a quiet house in the woods where we hopefully will make lots and lots more memories.
The June update may be a little late. 😋
