Moving fast

Things are moving fast here, too fast to catch up on blog drafts. All last fall, we postponed any real action or decisions about moving until our October Boston trip and our Christmas DC trip. In the new year, we finalized our decision, hooked up with a realtor and Tom's job took a surprise turn. Now we are on a roller coaster to the East Coast that we can barely hang on to!

To beat other houses to the market, as well as not really dilly dally here (if we're going to move, no use in prolonging the agony of being in transition), we're aiming to put the house on the market in mid-March. If we have a 30-day close, 30-day rent back, that would put us in a mid-May departure. At first we were aiming for a month later to sync up with Emily's wedding in June, but then we realized that the wedding is somewhat of an artificial deadline. So we pushed up the schedule for the sake of the real estate market.

I think some of our friends think we can't wait to get out of here since, of all things, we pushed UP our time line. It's not like we hate it here and can't wait to leave. More like we're going with the market and giving ourselves some extra time in our new town before kindergarten. Not one for long prolonged goodbyes, maybe I'll cry a little less about leaving all our friends here if I don't leave myself time to cry.