House hunting, part 2

Here we go again… After moving not even 2 years ago to Connecticut we had to go house hunting again, this time to New Jersey.

But this time we were better prepared. We checked the schools and the “good area” on Internet and went to see 4 to 6 houses each trip, not 25 in three days. The first trips were disappointing. The houses were all somewhere in the woods, too old or too expensive. I wanted to have at least a few neighbours, some kids for Jakob and…water. I wanted to exchange “my” ocean for a lake. And then in the winter we had luck. We found “our” house in a lake community with a cute small town.

The backyard was big so I promised my son that we finally will get a dog, hoping to make the move easier for him.

The house was new, so we would be able to move in three months at the latest… How to leave all our friends again? How will Jakob deal with it? How I would adapt again?