Time to Move!

We have some good news! Drew and I will be homeowners in just less than a month! The day before we celebrated our one year anniversary, we put an offer in on a house in Greenfield. We had planned to spend the weekend of our anniversary in Door County, and were a tad late getting up there because of our decision to put an offer on a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom ranch on a quiet Greenfield subdivision with a HUGE fenced in yard and a swingset for the kiddos to play on. We anxiously awaited to hear back from the owners while we sipped wine at a winery, ate a romantic dinner, spent time in our whirlpool suite at Stone Harbor Resort and shopped in the quaint boutiques of DC. Finally, by Tuesday we accepted the sellers 2nd counter offer. At first the idea seemed a bit surreal... like "are we really doing this NOW?" But as it sets in, we are getting quite excited... All the pieces of our life are settling, and this house signifies how we are charging ahead in our life together in Milwaukee. Undoubtedly, leaving our duplex in Glendale will be bittersweet. Bitter because we'll be leaving the place where we first started our life... together. I keep joking to Drew that someday we'll drive our kids past it and tell them "this is where Mommy and Daddy and Matthew first lived" - a ritual I grew up with in my family - where my parents took us on "Magical Mystery tours" of Milwaukee every single time we were in the city. And actually, I believe they took my sister-in-law Bethany on one last summer when she was in Milwaukee...see, they never get old for Arlie and Mary Jo! :-) However, leaving Glendale will be sweet because we will finally have a place to call our own... and this house is where we will bring home our babies - where our family will continue to grow. And I can't wait for that.