For my very first blog I think it makes the most sense to start from the beginning… Jacoby and I lived in Chicago for two years, and we loved it. We have so many great memories of living in the city together. However, after we got married, we realized that when we planned to start a family it would be a real challenge for us financially and logistically. So we went ahead, bit the bullet and moved to the suburbs. To sum it up… WE HATED IT. Very quickly, we soon realized that the burbs just weren’t for us. We’re two country kids at heart who grew up surrounded by cornfields. We thought that by moving out of the city meant moving away from traffic, noise and chaos. We found ourselves either driving back into the city for fun activities with friends or driving out to the country to be with our folks. We eventually decided that moving back home to where we both grew up was the right place for us to be. Our decision to build our home didn’t happen on purpose. Quite honestly, we were set on buying a starter home. Neither my husband or myself had […]