For a while now, we’ve dreamed of being homeowners. We’ve dreamed of being able to drill shelves in the wall without regrets (oh, the horrors of renting!) and paint without knowing you’re going to have to repaint when you move out. We’ve dreamed of making little improvements on a house, one by one, and having the satisfaction of knowing what you’re spending your money on is yours to keep.

And then, of course, there’s the permanency of knowing you get to keep your friends for a good, long time. Of knowing you get to bring your new babies home here and your first kid will start his elementary school days here. There’s something to be said about finally settling down into permanency.

It’s incredible to me how much the Lord cares about the paths we take, how he is deeply concerned about the small and simple things in our lives. We continue to feel really strongly we were supposed to be in the Bay Area for the time frame we’ve been here. We don’t doubt that for even a second.

And so we put a good solid effort into finding a house here in the Bay Area. There are so many things I love and will miss here (the farmer’s market! the children’s museum! Amelia’s grave!) but after considering so many cities and neighborhoods, we just never fell in love with one specific area. We really had a hard time envisioning this being home, and felt like that warm & fuzzy feeling was amiss. (Not to mention housing prices are INSANE around here.)

So when I jokingly (and yet quite seriously) questioned Tyler six weeks ago if we could move down to San Diego – he’s been traveling down there for work quite a bit – we looked at one another and for the first time thought, why not? We made pros and cons lists. We mulled over and thoroughly hashed out the issue until we were quite literally red in the face. And we basically felt again, why not? what is stopping us?

Tyler finally got the courage to ask his work in San Diego about transferring back to that office, and was accepted with open arms. We were finally moving home!

The first weekend we drove down there, I walked into (our new) house and just knew. It was a very “this is the place” kind of moment. :) And long story short, we’ll get to move in just in time to put up the Christmas tree (the first week of December).

I will share more photos after we move in, but please forgive me if there continues to be silence on the blog for a bit. ;)