Househunting

I should probably post a quick update on where we're at with the move.

Two weeks ago, we went to Dallas to go househunting for the weekend. We were looking at houses in a wide area, probably about 20 miles east-west and 10 miles north-south. This made things really stressful, because it meant that I had to look for daycares in a wide area as well.

We spent Saturday looking at some rather enormous houses in some rather far-flung suburbs. We eventually realized that it made no sense living 30-45 minutes away from Hubby's office in order to own a home more than twice as large as our current home, which is almost twice as large as the home we were living in when Littles was born. We simply did not need -- or want -- all that space.

We took a wrong turn on the way back to our hotel, and ended up driving right past Hubby's office. We decided to stop in to a new development about 5 minutes away, to see what they had to offer.

We both fell in love right away. The development is beautiful, and it's in a perfect location. The houses are more expensive despite being smaller, but the smaller size was exactly what we were looking for anyway, and it was worth it to us to pay more to be in such a nice place.

After some long, drawn-out negotiations (which continued even after we returned home to California), we finally reached a deal and should be closing at the end of this month!

So, with housing in place, we just have to find child care... that's a topic for another post.