Calm before a storm

We had a relatively quiet week! After the stress and overwhelm of putting our house on the market, we got to "relax" a little this week. Rob started a new job Monday but other than that we laid pretty low. 

Rob took Kasper and his very long time friend disc golfing and out for lunch today. Looks like they had a ton of fun! 

Marlo felt left out so I took her for a walk that turned into leaving her at the beach and going for a walk myself. 

 

We did treat ourselves to ice cream after. 

Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Changes!

I didn't post last week because we took no photos. We took no photos because we were getting our house ready to be listed! After WEEKS of work and a LOT of help, we drove away Thursday morning with plans to stay away all weekend as our house was booked bell to bell with scheduled showings for prospective buyers! I stopped counting at around 40 showings and within a couple hours we had an offer from the very first people who toured the house. We eventually accepted! They seemed very excited about living here and even came back and asked our permission to come back the next day with their kids. This market is WILD and we never expected to have so much interest the first weekend. Now we have a few weeks before we say goodbye to our home for the last decade. 

We spent the weekend up in St. Cloud and it was nice to relax for a bit. We played outside a ton. Going to the park, inventing a kickball game, walking around a flower garden, running through the sprinklers.

 

We went on an overly ambitious hike. The kids actually did really well but it was a hair too long. 

And now we're back at home gearing up for the final stretch of our time here. We're all going to miss it! Oh, and did I mention Rob starts a new job tomorrow?  Yup - changes.

Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Runnin'

 We are busy getting our house ready to list but we did get to do a couple fun things this week!

One evening, the kids ran in a 1 mile race! It was a beautiful night and both kids had a blast! I was worried we'd have to go find Marlo out on the course but she was one of the first in her grade group to finish. 

We didn't get to see Kasper on the course because he was in one of the first heats and honestly finished SO FAST, but we got to see Marlo. She was FLYING.

Today was Mother's Day! Along with some really nice cards and gifts, I got a delicious brunch with my family. 

And just like that the weekend is over. Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Making Moves

Same stuff different week, amiright?

Is it just me or do the weeks fly by in a blur these days? Maybe it's because things are sort of going back to normal. Or the new normal feels more like normal. In fact, Rob and I both got our second doses of the COVID vaccine this week so even old normal may be somewhere on the horizon.

This week wasn't totally devoid of novelty though: the big news is that we started preparations to put our house on the market! We decided earlier in the year to move into our school district so the kids can take the bus home. We currently open enroll and while it's fine for the time being, Kasper will go to middle school after 5th grade and it would be far easier for us to be in district. The hot sellers market spurred us to take the plunge right now. We're putting a ton of our stuff in storage right now to clear out some space. We really have a lot of stuff. 

It was in the 80's yesterday! I walked to the post office and sunburned quite a bit of my upper half. I met Rob and the kids in the woods where they were having a bike ride and picnic. We're apparently not quite acclimated to the heat because according to Kasper it felt like he was "on the surface of the sun." He wasn't entirely wrong.

Kasper went over to a friend's house so Rob took Marlo out for ice cream. 

 

Today the kids found a digger toy and had the best time ever. Kasper took more of an oversight role.

Side note, he's huge now.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!