I lie, we were house hunting but flat hunting sounds better. we spent all of Wednesday with our relocation specialist from London Relocation, Kenneth. WE hired a nanny to watch Eden and Alden and Jasher came along with us to see 24 properties in 3 areas. We were exhausted! We found a few winners but then I came home and looked at the details. My favorites were a 50 minute or more commute. Yuck! Knowing that Chad will likely be working 10 hour days I imagined how the kids wouldn’t see him at ALL except weekends and holidays. What had we done?! After officially freaking out and being completely downtrodden the next morning I managed to pull myself together… just a bit.

Our top choice was very competitively priced coming in well under what we expected to pay. It was beautiful and the street was nice and the community seemed perfect. Then we went and knocked down the neighbors doors. This was after we showed the kids the house and the gleefully ran around. We went to look for friends… nothing. It turns out the perfectly wonderful street had been perfectly full of children 20-30 years ago. Now all the kids were grown.

Later that day we popped over the the other property and checked out the dynamics of that street. What a difference. Children popping from the seems. It is more expensive but with all the kids and new friends we promised Eden and Alden it will be worth every penny.

We went to the ward today and I loved it. It is small and very diverse. But the people are friendly and there are kids in primary. Now I am hoping we can make this place work. If not I don’t know what we’ll be able to find!