House Update

We sold our house.

That should be good news, but it seems we find ourselves without a home.  I joke with the kids that we are homeless, but we certainly have too much stuff for them to understand what true homeless means.  It turns out we will be renting for the summer.  We were lucky enough to find a home to rent that will take the dog in one of Prior Lake's beach neighborhoods.  Prior Lake has four neighborhoods with a neighborhood beach and docks so you can enjoy the lake without paying lake prices.  We will be in the oldest of those neighborhoods four neighborhoods.  The great thing about this home is that we know several families who live there.  There are boys Colin's age who play with him on his lacrosse teams.  There are several boys who are Zach's age that go to school with him this year.  There are several girls in the neighborhood that might take Molly under their wing.  And in addition to having access to the lake, we will have an amazing neighborhood park across the street for the kids to play with all these friends.

After that we hope to move into a brand new house that we will be building.  We found a lot we like in southern Prior Lake that backs up to a regional park.  We finally picked a builder this weekend who has a floor plan we like.  We meet with them tonight to finalize an agreement.  If we can get that worked out quickly, it should take approximately 2 weeks to get approval on the plans and pull permits.  It should take 120 days to build the home.  We know that is "builders time" so we are hopeful that we will be in our new home sometime between Halloween and Christmas!

All this good news has come about in a rather quick timeline.  It left me feeling crazy and overwhelmed.  It left me little time for things like blogging or exercising.  It left me a little on the grumpy side.  Now as I walk around and pack up my home...the home I have lived in for 10 years...the home I brought each of my babies home to...I get weepy.  While I know the change is a good one for our family, change is hard.  Memories hid around each corner.  Each box I pack contains something that made this house a home.  I have to say good-bye to neighbors I love and a yard I really like.  And I am doing this at a time that I prepare for my daughter's last day of preschool.  So I allow myself the weepy moments and then I put a smile on my face and prepare to meet all of this change.

I mean I do love an adventure...