Some Big News & Then Some Much Bigger News

We have some big news. We’re moving. We’re not moving far, just across town, but it’s been quite the undertaking this summer. We had a lot of plans for this summer and moving wasn’t one of them. But sometime at the end of May we found a house in town that we both love. It was right before we went on vacation, which ended up being good timing, because instead of negotiating while Tom was busy at work, we could relax by the pool together and talk everything over. We had found a house to move to and now it was time to try and sell our house. If you’ve ever had a house on the market with 3 little kids, you know it’s not a fun process. The days consist of cleaning, trying to keep the kids away from what you just cleaned and then leaving the house while it’s being shown. Of course the only times people wanted to see the house were when Tommy wanted to nap or during dinner/ bath time. It was a little crazy, but thanks to some awesome friends in town, we got through it. About 2 weeks later, right before we left for the beach for 4th of July, we got an offer and things were rolling along. 

While I’m excited for the new house and what’s to come, I’m an emotional mess about leaving our current house. Over the past 4 years this house has really become our home. I remember the day I found it. It was minutes after it went on the market and we had been searching for a house in this town for months. I was 8 months pregnant with Alex and determined to find a house to move into before she was born. When I saw the house, I knew it was the one for us. Originally I had wanted to move into the city but Tom wanted the suburbs. Our compromise was a town with a great downtown area. This house was just blocks from the center of town, the train to the city, etc. It needed a lot of work and a lot of love, and that’s what we’ve done for the past 4 years. We’ve put a lot of work into our home and we’ve loved doing it. We both have a lot of pride in the home we’ve created for our family. If you know me well, you’ve heard me say “I’ll never leave this house”. We started to outgrow the house sometime around when Alex was being potty trained. We have 1 toilet and for some reason 4 of us fighting for that one toilet somehow made the house seem smaller. Then Tommy came along and while he fit just fine in his little nursery, we felt a little crammed. Tom felt crammed more than I did. I always said “we have plenty of space, more than most people”. I knew we could make it work; it just meant keeping less clutter. We even thought about adding on some day. We love our home, despite the space and our favorite part is the yard. So as soon as spring rolls around each year, we fall back in love with our house. But this spring, things changed a bit. 

Here we are the day we moved into the house. Just one child, our sweet Maggie, 18 months old. 

Here we are now:

Let me zoom in a little….

And there’s our MUCH bigger news: We’re also pregnant! So as much as we love this house, we love the idea of our growing family even more. We found a (slightly) bigger house on a quieter street in our town, the town we love. While I’m sad to leave this house, I know we’ll make somewhere else our home quickly. I tear up each time I think about leaving the place I brought 2 of my babies home to, the place I watched babies learn to crawl, walk, talk and play. Where we gave first baths and first meals; we have so many more milestones to watch with all four children and a new baby to bring to a new home. We’re busy as can be this summer and our hearts are so full of joy as we prepare for the arrival of baby #4 in January!