New developments have recently come up which has taken whatever little time I had away - hence the even fewer posts on the blog. Not only am I finishing up my additional licensure (1/2 a class left, i.e. 2 nasty projects due by May) we are busy selling the house so we can move. Needless to say, my plate has been overflowing for some time now.
Adam was approached to take a job with the MN Corn Growers and it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up. The only problem - it is in Shokapee, making his commute 1.5 hours from Z-town. With him excited to take the job, we were both very sad (and still are) to be moving but know it is best for our family. The house has been on the market for 2 weeks now and we've had 3 showings so things look promising. Looking online at houses has not been exciting for me - living in suburbia in a 'newer' house has never really excited me. But, I'm trying to stay positive and am excited to have level floors, more closets, and a kitchen for entertaining, plus Oma and Opa have requested their own bedroom. Still hard to get over the lack of charm newer houses bring and lack of hardwood floors (Adam tells me he'll work on putting in hard wood floors in the future in necessary). So....Friday we head to the cities for our first official look at houses in person.
While it will not be easy to be away from our Zumbrota 'family' we will just be in the 'northern suburbs' of Zumbrota (as a friend once put it). So that is how we are looking at it - we make the drive to the cities every day, why not make the drive to Z-town on a regular basis?
Our plan is to sell our house before we buy and hope to have everything done this summer. We cannot move 'officially' before I am done with school because we don't have childcare, nor do we want to pull Gerrit out of school at this point. We shall see how the timing works! It is out of our hands now and we wait.
A storage unit has saved us a lot! With finishing random projects on the house that we've been meaning to do and never did, we can concentrate on packing. A good portion of the house is in boxes and out of site which makes maintaining a 'showable' house easier. I will be thankful when showings are done but at the same time, coming home to a house that is always picked up has been nice.
The move has not hit the boys in a positive or negative way. Emmit won't quite understand and Gerrit will realize what's happening on the first day of school, or when he asks to go to Dahlen's house after dinner. It has hit me harder than I thought. This big city girl who didn't want to move to a small town took some serious convincing to move back to the city! Holy cow, what happened??? Anyways, with each day comes a bit more ease and understanding - especially when Adam has not been home before 6:30 yet due to the commute.
Stay tuned. Until the move, we will live it up in Z-town by celebrating Easter with friends and enjoy the warmer days of spring!
