We've been here one year!

I can't believe we have been in our house for one year! It's not that we haven't lived in one place for a year before but this is the first place we've lived in where we aren't constantly thinking about the next place. Living somewhere knowing you are going to move makes it very hard to settle and be comfortable there. You are constantly thinking 'and then when we move'.

When we lived in our first house (after two apartments) it was so tiny we always knew we'd be leaving because it was impossible to think about my dear husband (DH) working from home in that dank depressing basement. Plus, we knew we wanted to expand our family by at least one and since our darling daughter (DD) had a room the size of a walk in closet and ours was not much bigger. With the way my darling son (DS) is growing I can assure you he wouldn't have fit properly in either room with us, so we had to go.

We made the decision to move out of the bigger city to a smaller area. I liked the idea of 'small town' schools for my kids and the prices of houses is much cheaper in this area than in the big city. Last summer we rented this huge house from a guy who was moving from another province and was waiting for his house to sell there. It was a lot of fun to have such a ridiculous amount of space, but wow the upkeep was insane! I'm not saying I wouldn't want that much square footage again, but right now I don't want to have to clean all of that! Maybe when my kids are older and I can give them some jobs to do to help me. ;)

We went down a bit in size from our 'summer home' last fall but, for now, I'm much more comfy in this home. It's just enough room for our family of four even with DH working from home. Plus it's in a growing neighbourhood so for the time being we don't have any backdoor neighbours so our deck looks out on a beautiful prairie field facing west so the sunsets are just amazing. Plus we've gotten more than a few double rainbows so I say that's a sign we are where we're meant to be.

We started out renting and then got to buy it so this little piece of land is truly ours and it just feels right being here. The timing couldn't be more perfect because we're finally getting an Ikea in the city and oh my goodness I can't wait to go there and get accents and accessories for my house! Finally next year we won't have to think about moving, or having a baby. Just need to think about living. Woot.