Homeless No More

After a lengthy 2 day hunt for a decent rental property in Duluth we found one that'll do. Duluth certainly doesn't have the new growth and properties like Fargo does, so my expectations were quickly shattered. We saw some places I wouldn't even dare to live in as a naive, party animal college student... YIKES!! And the dumb people that would even suggest we come see the place, when they hear we have 3 young kids and are looking for a family friendly place... not some parole place.

Any way we have found a 3 bedroom townhouse in a newer area of Duluth.
Our new address is...
4742C Matternhorn Circle
Duluth, MN 55811

Its opened in Jan 2007 and is conveniently located near Target, Wal-Mart and the mall :-) Unfortunately we don't have much for a yard, but thankfully we are surrounded by trees and on a secluded dead-end street, so unless you live there you would never be near our home. After being a home owner for 6 years its hard to go back to rental life. I'm stressing about where everything will go, with such little space and storage it'll be a challenge. It sounds like the complex has many of other families with younger kids, and with a nice playground at the end of the street we hope to meet some new friends for the kids.
We were stuck signing a one year lease, but will begin our house hunting as soon as things settle down a little, and then when our parents come for a visit we can leave the kids with them and actually go see some places. You should have seen the circus on wheels this week, when we had all 3 in tow as we were looking at the rental places... The poor boys were so bored, Brady was tired of being in a car seat, I was cramped up from nursing him on the floor of the van all day, Brad was annoyed with the car seats, and the van was starting to smell funky from the 5 of us basically living in it for 2 days. We were all glad to get home Friday night.

Now that we aren't homeless any longer, we've scheduled the movers and will move out of our North Fargo home Monday April 28th, and take residence in MN Tuesday April 29th. Poor Brad has to head out there tomorrow night and will stay at the house, as he's got to put in a full weeks work. We've been putting together a survival kit for him to take along... The house is empty! So with a blow up mattress, clothes, bag chair, TV (with no cable yet) and plastic cutlery he'll officially move into our new place tomorrow night. I was smart to pack cleaning supplies so he'll have something to do while he waits for the cable to get connected :-)

We'd love to have visitors this summer :-) so be sure to look us up... However we unfortunately don't have the space to put you up :-(

P.S.
I think in the next day or 2 Brad will be changing his cell phone number to a Duluth number, but I'll keep my the same for at least the next few weeks, and I'll be sure to post the new numbers when we get them.