Our Summer in Sleepy Hollow

I don't know how many of you have yet heard, but Heidi and I met a great deal of relief a couple of weeks ago as our difficult hunt for an apartment in Chicago came to a sudden end. Finding an apartment within decent distance of the Sears campus that offers a 3 month lease was remarkably hard, and at the end of the hunt, we had only 4 options. Two of those apartment complexes had reviews of frequent tire-slashings and robbery. The third was a decent price, but still looked sketchy. The fourth was beautiful, very close to Sears and would cost us around $1200 per month. And we'd still need to buy furniture in any of those cases - none came furnished.

Imagine our relief when I got a call from a bishopric member in the Schaumburg area (the corner of Chicago I'll be working in) who was planning on taking his family on an all-summer vacation in Utah and who was looking for someone to house-sit for him.

Now imagine how quickly Heidi and I agreed. :)

Here's an areal shot of the neighborhood:

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We've only seen it from above, too, but the neighborhood looks beautiful and quite cozy - and apparently so large that it gets its own town name, since I can't see Sleepy Hollow appearing on the address of anything else. We don't know exactly how big the house is, but we know that they have at least two kids, a guest bedroom, and roughly a full acre of property to sit on, so the home can't be too small. Plenty big for Heidi and I, to say the least. Too bad Google hasn't been able to do any Street View shots in the neighborhood.

Other things of note:

It's just ten minutes to the local church!

Its just 15 minutes to my office at the Sears campus!

It looks beautiful. We are so excited. They're charging us just $1,000 for the entire summer, provided we mow the lawn and take care of their garden. That lawn does look formidable, but we're excited for garden. :)

We are very blessed.