Free time

It's T-minus 6 days before we move from our house and not one single thing is packed.  Not one.  We have spent this last week enjoying our little house and each other.  We've spent time visiting with friends and at the end of the day, we are too tired to read, work, or watch TV, much less pack.

Hopefully, I'll be able to post about how the move went after we move.  We are also planning a few roadtrips before Billy starts school in the fall (August 1!), so I'll let y'all know how roadtripping with a hates-to-be-in-a-car-seat 11 month-old little boy goes.

For right now, here is a preview of the place, house, and school!

Picture of the main street of Maplewood, Missouri.  Maplewood is a town within the city limits of St. Louis and it's only 10 minutes away from Washington University.

Billy was accepted to several business schools around the country, but we had narrowed it down to Tulane University in New Orleans, Georgetown University in DC, and Washington University in St. Louis.  Tulane and Wash U offered Billy really competitive scholarships.  We ended up choosing Wash U because of its ranking and (for me) the way they wined and dined us at the admitted students weekend.  Although we love, love, love New Orleans and would love to live there some day, we had to choose Wash U.

Olin Business School at Wash U in St. Louis.  Doesn't it look like something out of Dead Poet's Society?

 
Plus, the cost of living in St. Louis is amazing (for the 3 bedroom, 2 bath house we ended up renting at $1200, we would have gotten a 1 bedroom apartment in DC.  Dumb, right?)  Although St. Louis has its issues with crime and what not, the area where we're going to live is actually quite nice and very family and dog friendly.

Our adorable new house!!!  It's also got a beautiful back yard for the doggies.

We are planning to road trip it from St. Louis to New Castle, PA, and then to Charleston, WV, Charleston, SC, and back up through Nashville up to St. Louis.  Billy's doing a lot of driving this summer (moving our stuff from SLC to STL) so we may be tuckered out, but this may be our last free summer before Billy gets super busy.

As for me, I will continue to work on my dissertation while Billy's at school and work everyday to be inspired to finish and to lead a happier healthier life.  Oh.  And to be the bestest mom and girlfriend that I can be.  yada yada yada.