Full circle

I was driving through north Lexington, on our way to Tobey's classmate's birthday party at the Y. It was an overcast day, not too cold, and mid-fall when all of a sudden I had a flashback. Not a deja vu where I think I had been there but actually hadn't. But a real flashback.

It was exactly a year ago this week that we took our Boston "recon" trip, a weeklong trip to the Boston area. We packed the boys in the car and took our own driving tour of Lexington. The weather and time of year was exactly the same and thus, the flashback. I remembered north Lexington specifically because the streets on the map seemed more spaced out, like maybe there would be bigger lots and bigger houses there. So we headed in that direction.

There were a lot of flat level lots, different from the hillier tree lined streets of Lexington. The houses in this part of town were multimillion dollar, I'm sure. Although we knew we couldn't afford the mansions, we thought it'd be nice to get a similar lot and just a smaller standard colonial in the shadow of the mansions. Don't they say you don't want to be the nicest house on a less expensive block but rather you should be the cheapest house in the most expensive neighborhood? I think it was then that I thought I could really like Lexington.

Fast forward a year later, we are about to close on our own house in Lexington in just a few days. Amazing what can change in a year. Oct 2007 we were just starting to tell friends that we were moving and 12 months later, we already said goodbye and are ready to say hello to new friends here.