This past weekend Nik and I went to Maine to find a house and see if we could really wrap our brains around moving all.the.way.UP.there. It's quite an adventure, and now that we are able to report we have housing AND daycare, we're ready to go. Yesterday.
After what seemed like months of perusing craigslist (and Zillow and Trulia and homes.com and rent.come and maine4rent.com and apartments.com and apartmentguide.com and and and and and), we found a place we LOVED. I contacted the landlord via the listing and spoke with him briefly over the phone. I talked with him about a week before we planned to visit the great State of Maine to look at houses and convinced him 1) to hold out on renting it until we could see it and 2) to rent it to us if we liked it. I win :)
The house is awesome. I wish I had pictures, but the former tenants are still moving out and I DO NOT want to show you all of the mess that is in the house now. We've had to be a little creative in being able to envision what it will be like when we move in and where we will put things. Ikea better look out. We are on the way!!!
Let me point out that the entire point of this trip up to Maine was to find a place to live. We landed at 09:33 am met with the landlord of the perfect place I just mentioned at 11:30 am. Within two hours we had a place to live, so we had the rest of the weekend to ourselves! We explored and visited and wore ourselves out getting used to the area and all the things available in our new town.
We met with a potential daycare provider on Monday before we left and loved her, so we were able to take care of that too. Ryan will start the Monday after we move so we'll have some time to unpack without him underfoot before I start work on the 29th.
About work...I landed a position with the Professional and Continuing Education Department at the University of Southern Maine as an Enrollment and Recruitment Advisor. I could not be more excited about getting started!
Now to pack...
