We’re Moving

Yep, only 14 months after we moved into our cute little yellow house, she’s on the market again.

In typical us fashion, the time between when we made the decision to sell and start looking at other homes and when it actually went on the market was about three weeks. We don’t mess around.

The people who know us personally are probably not that shocked – we’ve lived in four states in the six years we’ve been together – but being that we actually owned this house, it’s kind of a surprising pivot.

But, the pandemic has changed us. Without getting too sappy and turning everyone away, this is the house where I’ll always remember Alex recovering from his cancer surgery, my feet up in the living room eating ice cream with a huge pregnant belly, and baby Eleanor’s newborn cries bellowing down the hallway. It’s going to be hard to say goodbye, but we’re ready for a new project.

We were actually recently featured on a pandemic pivot episode of the A Beautiful Mess podcast where they were talking about all the life changes people have made during quarantine, though they mentioned us starting a blog while in isolation not selling our house! A whole combination of things went into our deciding to step away from our first cute little home, so let’s break it down.

Housing market

I suppose it makes sense when you think about it, but it’s a sellers market right now. With people having been cooped up for the last four or five months, I’m sure a lot have realized that their house isn’t big enough or they aren’t happy where they are and are looking to change it up while they can.

We never planned to live in Louisiana for the rest of our lives and worried that if we sat on the house for another year or two, it would be losing value all that time as we move deeper into any economic issues the pandemic might bring.

Having a baby changes you

We’ve had a whirlwind year. If you’re new here, check out our About Us page to read about it, but the highlights are marriage>house buying>cancer>baby>pandemic. We got through it all just fine (with a bit of a neverending eye twitch and nervous laughter) until the baby came along two weeks before the world shut down and we’ve been isolated ever since. Things might be different if everything was normal when we had our first baby, but being so far from any kind of support system and working from home without daycare kind of culminated into a tough time, to be really honest.

Location

While we loveeeee our location in our city and it’s in an up-and-coming sort of area, we’re trying to make it back to the Florida Panhandle where we were two years ago before this move. We don’t have family there (unfortunately being from different countries means we’re never going to figure out being close to everybody) but we loved being by the beach and we have lots of friends there with little ones around Eleanor’s age. It’s our place.

We do have an offer in on a house there, but we’ll wait until it’s all set before we share anything on that part of it.

If you’ve made it this far I commend you reading my ranting about our life. It’s been so crazy and stressful but we really feel like it’s a good move for us. Our job situation is a * little * up in the air but I’m sure there’s some basic white girl phrase about living out of your comfort zone we can throw in and call it good.

We’re planning a post very soon on how we got our house ready to list in only two weeks (hopefully our chaos will help your strategy in the future) so keep an eye out for that!

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