Math whizzes know we average one place every 2.4 years. Actually, if you remove the home up north in Augusta where we lived from 1993 to 2005 it's closer to a new place every year and a half.
I'm guessing a box or two maybe may have made most of the moves and never opened. Hopefully there aren't any unopened jars of food in there!
There are six cities we've called home through the years.
Osceola, Iowa (pronounce OC ola); Pierre, South Dakota (pronounce pier); Janesville, Wisconsin; Augusta, Wisconsin; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Verona, Wisconsin.
It's our third attempt at home ownership. I say attempt since we didn't live out our days in either of the first two, maybe the process didn't "take."
Our latest home is right-sized for some nest with no little ones running around. Two floors and a basement (for my somewhat storm-phobic spouse) with a deck and no lawn mowing or exterior care responsibilities! Yay!
We're coming through the Bell Curve of home sizes. The first home we bought was small, around 1,500 square feet plus a nice unfinished basement. The second was larger and we made it bigger until it was 3,000 square feet. This one weighs in at just under 1,500 square feet.
A little larger than the place we moved our of, but no so big we feel compelled to fill it with more stuff.
On a quiet street in what seems (so far) to be a calm neighborhood, it feels like a good match for this stage of life. I don't think it's what we'd call the end-stage of life, but certainly closer to it than the start.
It will take a little time to adapt to a new place and different spaces. We'll be back to sharing a bathroom again, so this could take a little time to figure out. Our schedules differ enough, I'm usually long-gone before its time for the hair curler to be plugged in.
Other than preferring to have a radio and a clock in the bathroom, I'm electricity free when it comes to early day activities. Of course, the lights are on - but I'm not counting those at the moment.
Home Ownership means we can paint our own walls - something my spouse finds to be very important. It also means picking up the phone to call a "guy" when something doesn't work will no longer be included in our monthly payment.
No one lives on the floor above or the floor below. We have an adjoining home to ours - but it's all quiet from there.
You might say all the branches aren't yet in place for the latest nest - it isn't even feathered yet.
