Once we decided to sell our condo, it became obvious that with the market as it is in Boston, doing it before June would be really helpful. So, despite that being pretty awful timing for us, we managed to do everything needed to get it ready to sell, including packing up 1/2 of our belongings into storage between our return from Paris and May 13. It meant staying up late going through our stuff and packing every night after putting Elliott to bed for a couple weeks and lining up several different jobs that needed to be done by professionals: landscaping, power washing, painting, building new stairs onto the deck, and more.
The legwork for selling was definitely all in the preparation because once it was on the market, we accepted the top offer within a matter of days (thank you crazy Boston housing market). We were extremely grateful for that because trying to keep the house clean for 5 minutes is impossible, so we were relieved to have the house back to ourselves again. Although, since we only had a fraction of our things we had to adjust to living without all of our stuff for the next couple months until the move.
Here's our professional photos of the house looking cleaner than we've ever seen it.
We made so many wonderful memories in this home, making a nursery and then bringing home our little baby to fill it, getting a new puppy, countless walks to the park, messes that were cleaned up (eventually), meals made, cakes baked, snowdays on the couch, Netflix series watched, and parties hosted. There's some things I won't miss so much: listening to the incessant, loud, profane music from our backyards neighbors in the middle of the day on the weekends, placing spot savers in our parking spot after spending hours clearing it from numerous snowfalls, driving around the block to reach our house because it was a one way, flooding in the basement and having to drag the hose out from the hobbit door because there was no outdoor hose spigot.
Clearing it out so it was empty was a strange feeling. We are really gonna miss our little Dot home!
Happening simultaneously to this house sale, was the search for our new home in Durham. We are very excited to make this new house a home as well! We have some ambitious plans for updates that will hopefully actually happen and we're really excited mostly to have some space for Elliott to play so we can contain the toy situation. Once we get our fence and dog door put in, we're sure Zeus will also love all the extra space outside to run more freely. In the meantime, he is staying with his second Dad, Nate's former boss for a month or so.
Instead of doing a long and boring drive we made a few fun stops along the way. We stopped in Leesburg, VA to see our nieces, Harper's Ferry, WV, Shenandoah National Park, and Charlottesville, VA.
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| As we were leaving |
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| Saying Goodbye |
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| There goes all our stuff |
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| Driving in two separate cars packed to the brim |
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| Visiting Leesburg |
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| John Brown's Fort, Harper's Ferry |
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The invisibles, those who fought with John Brown against
Slavery before the civil war in an armed slaves rebellion |
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| Being a bird |
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Saving treasures like dead leaves to give to me,
and make me keep in my backpack |
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