Thursday, May 12, 2016

Summertime Activities for Kids

Can you believe that summertime is upon us?  In a few short weeks school will be out and I'm sure we all have grand visions of activities planned and vacation time with family.  And if you haven't even started thinking about ideas, how about try some of these:
  1. taking a nature walk in your local State Park
  2. picnic with friends and family near a lake or a playground
  3. try your hand at fishing at a local pond
  4. plan a trip to a beach
  5. explore along a bike path
  6. visit community gardens
Are you catching on too a pattern here?  I say "get outside and enjoy some sunshine, or go jump in puddles along with your kids when it rains," the options are endless!  Lucky for us as parents, adventures don't have to be expensive or extravagant for children to have tons of fun and make memories last!  And bonus prize - the less stressful the event, the more fun we have as adults too!

Friday, May 6, 2016

Move to Bucks County, PA

Our happy family :)

Guess what?  We've moved again!

For all the readers who have been following our adventures: thank you for joining us on this journey, and for new readers: a big welcome and feel free to check out the archives to catch up on why we sold our house back in October 2015 and have been living all over the east coast since December (how have these past 6 months gone by so fast?!)  And a HUGE thank you for all our family and friends who have supported us during the ups and downs along this road - love to all of you!

So no surprise here, we've moved again.  But this time it's for longer then a month in a vacation rental because this time we signed a 13month lease in an unfurnished townhouse - gasp!  Yes, it's true, we are settling down for a little while to enjoy some non-traveling adventures ahead of us.  As many of you who know, I'm now 7months pregnant.  It's a good time to settle into one place with more consistent doctors, stable living environment, and not to mention getting our own bed back finally - yippie for comfort!!  My husband also accepted a great career opportunity at a solid company which is super exciting!

Ok, ready for the tour of our new naked home before we put millions of boxes or furniture inside to create chaotic clutter?  Welcome to our new home, complete with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a finished basement!
Our end-unit townhouse
PODS being delivered

We sold a lot of our stuff before we put it in storage, but we still had one completely full POD and one packed about 1/3 full.  Being in a townhouse means we don't actually need to use our push-lawn mower, snow blower, power washer, etc so we are just keeping them in our utility storage until our next place.
Keiki with our new keys!!
Dining & living room, outside patio
Kitchen

Master bathroom with two sinks!
Master bedroom
Kids bathroom
Two equivalent kids rooms

Such modern utilities!
Keiki's whimsical attire makes me giggle,
complete with:
1. Minnie Mouse purse filled with bracelets
2. Irish shamrock antennae headband
3. Star shaped fairy wand  
Spacious finished basement,
soon to be huge playroom and a place
to simply run around on rainy/snowy days!
Also has an extra finished room that can be
made into an office or guest room

AND second floor laundry - I'm going to become super spoiled in this place!