The Move

It has been a hectic couple of weeks, but we are learning that the more our path changes, the more clear it becomes that the changing path we are on was a path set for us.

This weekend, we're uprooting from the Southern burbs, and settling into a temporary Townhome in Blaine. We drove back from Leech Lake Sunday after a surprise 60th Birthday party for my mom/40th anniversary party for my parents. The trip from Walker to Blaine was at least an hour shorter. We suspect the road to Wisconsin to see Sara's family will be a wash or shorter from where we currently are and look forward to the ability to see both more frequently once we get settled.

As Sara wrote earlier, we spent a significant amount of time during the Parade of Homes, searching for the type of house we wanted to live in and grow a family together. While we learned a lot about the style and look of the structure itself, what the time we spent really taught us was the kind of neighborhood we wanted to be in. And we ended up finding both.

We'd have never gotten to this point had it not been for delay after delay after delay with a plot of land in Apple Valley being repossessed by the bank from a builder that has ceased to exist in any real terms. More evidence in our minds of a path devined.

Once we are settled in, we'll be about 2 miles from where we intend to make home. We're excited later this weekend to take some pictures of the neighborhood and the prospective plots as we finalize which one we will soon call home.

In the meantime, we're boxing up our place and doing all of the "fun" stuff that you can't get around with a significant move.

Saturday is the big day. We're looking forward to being residents of Blaine sometime in the afternoon.

More soon. . .

The big decision

Chris and I are getting ready to make our big decision about building a home. We've spent the past four months doing research and are very close. We're looking at the Lakes development in Blaine. When we started this process in June I had no idea we'd end up where we are today.

You may ask how we ended up in the northern metro from the SE metro? After looking at 40+ homes in the parade of homes our thinking became more clear. We wanted to live in a neighborhood that was young with lots of young families but that was still close to the cities. Blaine seems to be the perfect fit to commute into both Minneapolis and St. Paul like Chris and I are both currently doing.

I will admit that I don't know that much about the northern metro but do know that living in Blaine will shave off at least an hour plus on Sunday nights in July on the way back from Leech Lake (where Chris parents live). We were not at the lake frequently this summer but know that will change next summer and the years ahead.

Once we have finalized a lot to build on we'll post pictures often of the progress. In the meantime enjoy reading about our journey to our new home.