Summer Plans

We've decided to sell the house.

Although I entered this discussion of moving kicking and screaming, I've now come full circle and will be disappointed if we can't find a buyer for our house.  We're still trying to remind ourselves that it might not sell -- it's not the best time to sell and our town is not exactly the most desirable in the area--but we'll see what happens.

And if it doesn't sell, we'll stay put for a while and then try again.  We visited the local elementary school and it seemed lovely.  Tai would do just fine there for the first couple years.  But once we visited the schools in the town to which we were thinking of moving, we knew that we had to try to move.  Amazing schools.  Not sure I can really articulate the difference, but we both came out of those school visits knowing that this other town was a better fit for us and our kids.  Nicer facilities, more diverse student populations, and just a generally great feeling we got about the principals, teachers, and philosophies of the schools.

Now we frantically prep the house for sale and keep our fingers crossed that it catches someone's eye.  Fortunately the house does not need much work, but we ought to get that huge pile of mulch out of the driveway.  And we need to de-clutter the inside and make it look like our kids don't leave toys all over the place all the time.  And it would be great if we could get the pets to stop leaving clumps of fur in the middle of the living room.  Oh, and we have to find a new place to live.  Oh, and we have to tell Tai about all this and hope he doesn't freak out at the idea of moving.  Oh, and Minh will be out of the country for just over 2 weeks in the middle of all this.

It's going to be an interesting summer.