{Our new place}

Visa also sent us a housing consultant to work with for a day. We worked with her to set up appointments to look at a couple places. We knew we'd be moving into an apartment complex of sorts, because that's all we can afford in this area, but we just had to narrow down to where. Since Sean now has a regular hours job, we wanted to take advantage of that and have a very short commute and also options for him to not take the car, since we only have one.

 Our favorite place from our online research happened to be our favorite in person as well, plus in a wonderful location for us. It's a 2 bedroom, 1 bath townhouse in San Mateo. It's been an adjustment for us, coming from a 3 bdrm 2 bath house in Dallas, but it's working out really well. The little patio space in the back is the saving grace, for us, methinks.

The movers came in and unloaded stuff over 2 days and we were overwhelmed with boxes for a while, but we are now all moved into our new place! We've hung some stuff on the walls, planted flowers in the back, and it's feeling much more like home to us now.

 

it kinda stinks having no washer and dryer in the house and having to pay for every load, but luckily the weather is nice enough here for us to dry our clothes outside - they end up smelling like flowers and saving us $$.

So now we're all settled into our new little home! It's different but I'm learning to love it. It's a lot noisier than a house, but there are also kids outside in the quad area for Evette to play with.

The stairs are a pain to climb multiple times a day, but I'm going to have great looking legs because of it [right? right?!?]

It's a smaller house [just over half the size of our previous place], but it's allowed us to go through everything and purge [one of my favorite things!] and decide what's important.

So here we are! If you want our address just shoot me a message!