Easter 2016

This weekend was anything but calm at our house! Friday night started with the kids playing outside and us thinking we were going to get the house all ready to go on the market by the end of the weekend. Friday night turned into a police mandated emergency where we were not allowed to be in our house until after 9:30. Thank goodness for the Ide's! Katie, Josh, M & O welcomed us over to play way past bedtime and we were so grateful to have a place to go for a little while.

Saturday was the big Bloomington Easter Egg Hunt! The Keehan's joined me and the kids in search of eggs and music. It was a fun little outing and then J & A were able to go play at their house for a few hours while we worked on the house.

Sunday, after the kids hunted down their Easter baskets, we headed north to the farm for dinner. Though it was a quick trip up (and who realized there was still snow up there..forgot snow pants!), it was really nice being together with everyone. The kids played and we ate more than we should have.

The big news from this weekend? We found a house. There are still some hiccups to iron out, and we need to sell our current spot, but, if everything goes according to plan, we will be moving to West Bloomington sometime mid-May. The house is 3,000 square feet, with five bedrooms and plenty of family space. It is just down the road from the kid's school and it is bright orange! I absolutely love it and am hopeful that everything goes according to plan and we are in before summer gets going. The best perk? It is only five miles from work for me, so the commute will remain easy and I will get to spend as much time with the kids as possible while continuing to work.

 

Housing

Do you know anyone who would like to live in Bloomington? Well, do we have a deal for you....once it is cleaned out, that is!

Ryan and I have decided it is time to pack up the house and move to a space that is larger and a bit more neighborhood-y.

That being said, it is proving to be a lot more work than I originally anticipated. In the past nine years, we have amassed A LOT of stuff! So, the purging has begun and hopefully in the next couple weekends, we will have a clean house, multiple donation receipts and a full storage unit.

We do not yet know exactly where we are going to buy. This has been a small point of contention, as I would like to stay within a 10 minute drive to work, while Ryan wants to head further south, where our money will go a little further towards a larger home. I think we will be happy as long as the schools are good, but my trusty little Toyota may need some work if we decide to make it a longer commute in the AM.

Our current house is getting a much needed interior facelift, with a painter putting a fresh coat of paint in most rooms, new carpet installed in the basement (Thanks, Hugo), and the bathroom upstairs getting new grout and sealant. If anyone knows how to fix a couple pieces of siding that need to be replaced, send them our way! Not quite sure how that project will go!

The process is quite intimidating (to me), even though I realize that people move all the time and it is not a really big deal. All the work that has to go into packing up and looking for a new house is causing a bit of stress in our house. It is going to be for the best, finding a new place, I just hope we don't kill each other in the process! (Kill might be too strong a word, perhaps hoping we still like one another when all is said and done would be a better way to phrase this).

The kids are finding all of this exciting and, during the few house tours they have been to, were quick to choose their new room in each house and make themselves at home! Annalee wants a pink room and was sorely disappointed when the painter at our house painted her little room a neutral green. Jack's room did not get painted, so he was even more bummed! Oh well!

So, that's what is going on this month! Hope everyone is well and happy!