The Time Has Come…

Things have been a little crazy lately. I mean, life is crazy busy and the days come and go with the blink of an eye, but things have been particularly hectic around here lately.

I’m not really sure what I’ve been waiting for, but I just wasn’t feeling like the time was right to bring it up on the blog. I do share a lot here with you guys, but not every teeny tiny detail about my life. Although you probably get a healthy dose of random tidbits every now and then!

So, the time has come….for us to move. Yep, we are moving.

It still doesn’t seem real and typing it out doesn’t make it feel any more real either. Somehow, I thought it might!

We are moving because T was essentially asked to take on a larger market within his company. He’s going to have one larger operation and give up 2 smaller ones. The new office is located about 65 miles north of where we live now in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. It’ll actually be our 3rd move for new opportunities that arose for him within his company. We went from Chicago to Indianapolis and then back to Illinois. We truly did not know where our next move would be since he’s always made it known that he is flexible and mobile and more than willing to go anywhere they need him to. So, we were quite surprised when we found out this current move was going to happen because its somewhat rare that he would be able to take on a larger, more challenging market and still be able to stay in Illinois. So, here we are! No more overnight travel – yay! No more stress of managing 2 offices that are 2 hours apart. It’s all GOOD! The only thing that hasn’t been quite so good, is his commute. He’s been doing the drive to his new office from our current house for a couple months now and it’s been pretty brutal. He’s been tacking on an extra 1.5-2 hours each way to an already lengthy work day. The kicker is that he has to pass by O’Hare Int’l airport which can cause plain nasty traffic and is so unpredictable!

So, the good is that we’ll be moving closer to his new office and we get to have him home a couple more hours in the day…the bad is that we have to leave this house – the place we’ve called home for 4 years…
photo credit: Photography by Robin Joy 

…and the place we brought both of our babies home to.
photo credit: Photography by Robin Joy 

I won’t get into the sappiness now because I’m sure that will come later as we get closer to our move date. I’m also not going to chat much about the details of the buying and selling because well, sometimes things don’t always go according to plan. But yes, our home is under contract and we put an offer on a home last week! I’ll share updates as we move through the process on both ends.
With all that being said, I am so SO excited about the new adventures ahead of us as a family and, as you probably already guessed, the “new house decorating adventures” as well! It will be a blank slate and I’m already itching to get my hands on it! I still have several posts to share with you on projects from our current house and I’m pretty positive that there’ll be some overlap of projects and ideas spilling over from this house to the next. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that we finished our basement [see some of our basement selections here and our bar progress here], revealed the basement bathroom and refreshed our master bedroom… I mean—it feels like yesterday, but in reality, we wrapped it all up within the last 6 months!! I can’t be certain what the next couple of months will look like here on the blog, but I sincerely hope that you’ll stick with me through this crazy, busy transition time! Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to share many room reveals and completed spaces with you for a little while, but there will be plenty of inspiration posts and mood boards to create as I start to gather ideas and plan new projects!

Yes, new projects – eek! I get butterflies just thinking about it!

So, that’s my big announcement that I mentioned in my last post. I’ve got a little something in the works to capture some of our treasured memories in this house and I’ll definitely be sharing that as soon as its finished! I’m really excited about it! Other than that, I’ll be back next Tuesday with another edition of “Inspired by DIY” and we’ll see what else I can wrap up and get out after that.

Your thoughts, prayers, positive vibes, etc. are much appreciated as we navigate our way through our home situation. Everything happens for a reason and I’m hopeful things will all work out!

I hope you have an amazing weekend and thanks for being here!