Moving "someday" was always on our radar, but at the beginning of summer when my company came out and said we'd be doing a hybrid return to work plan, I knew it was time for a home office instead of a dining room office. Our requirements were swimming pool (or room to build one), a main floor home office, and a three car garage. Oh, and it had to be closer to William's school (current junior high and future high school) than were already were. We went to two open houses, engaged a realtor and went to two showings, and then bought that last home! Actually John found it online a day or two after it listed and asked our realtor about it. It didn't show up in her auto searches for us because of the bathroom count. But when he asked her to show it to us, she was ecstatic, as it was in a neighborhood she loves and frequently jogs through. Ironically, neither John nor I had ever heard of the neighborhood or driven through it even though it's two blocks from William's school and 10 minutes from our current house. The pool and huge yard sold us! We also loved the house as the perfect size for the three of us, and its great location that didn't require us to change much about our day-to-day routines. Over the next year (or 12) we look forward to making it our own!
