I am happy to announce that our family has found a new house. We are moving about 15 minutes south of where we are currently living, but in a much nicer home and neighborhood. We have been looking for about a year and it's not been easy dragging little kids from open house to open house.

The only downside is that it means changing schools, which we were against initially. But since we could not find a house we liked in our general area, we had to create a "Plan B." But our kids (1st grader and heading into kindergarten) are young enough to adjust without too much trouble. Had they been several years older, it would have been much tougher.