Heading for the hills!
Well, not much going on here besides major life changes. R and I faced reality and decided that we really need to move. I love our neighborhood, I really like most aspects of our house and enjoy living in the city. But this house is small and getting smaller, as the kids get bigger. We originally had hoped to remodel some day but that is a very, very big project both in terms of time and money.

We started talking about trying to find a slightly larger home in the city, hopefully our neighborhood or something better. (Thanks Kate for the phrase) We had just started kicking around this idea over the last week.
On Friday a neighbor of ours mentioned that he was going out to look at some property in western Wisconsin. I originally thought, "well that's fine but who wants to live in the country. I used to think I wanted that, but not anymore, I'm a city girl now!"

Dangit though, I started thinking about what it would be like to have a few acres. To have woods for the kids to explore. Maybe try raising chickens or rabbits. Have a big pole barn for Ry to do his gearhead boy stuff. Possibly have some big OUTDOOR dog. Maybe even raise a pig and try not to fall in love with it before we kill and eat it!

Just for the heck of it we started looking at properties within 100 miles of the cities. And we were really surprised at how far our house $ would go out there. Seems that we could get a MUCH bigger house on some acreage for less than we should be able to sell our place here for.

So, we don't know what we're doing yet. We may still buy another place in the cities. We are definitely not doing anything before next spring. It is sure fun to dream anyway!