We moved.
To Minneapolis.
People outside of Minnesota may not understand how big a deal that is. We uprooted ourselves after 33 years in St. Paul, and moved to the other Twin City and it got many a head a shaking. Not ours though, we couldn’t be more excited.
Over the last five weeks, we looked at a lot of condos, found a new home, made an offer, negotiated, inspected, closed, packed, moved, unpacked and got our old house ready to go on the market. We are exhausted just writing that sentence. And grateful too for our amazing friends and realtors David and Wren Wells (yes that’s a blatant attempt at promotion/referral🙂).
This is a new adventure and it was primarily sparked by Cassie approaching her 5th year of living with Metastatic Breast Cancer. As we have noted before, 75+% of women diagnosed with MBC don’t make it five years so Cassie’s approaching that point is a BIG deal – one we were pretty sure we would never see when she was first diagnosed. This impending milestone got us thinking more about living with terminal cancer rather than focusing on dying from it. That got us reflecting on how and where we want to spend our remaining time together. And the answer, for both of us, was not in a big house, with a big yard, and lots of stairs and even more projects. It was time to move.
Since 2018 we have thought a lot about Cassie’s likely death. We have tried to live fully at the same time but we were both pretty consumed with the idea of Cassie dying at our wonderful St. Paul home surrounded by family and friends. Now though, we are consumed with a new home and neighborhood. We of course know that Cassie’s MBC will likely progress at some point and there is still no cure. We will still get anxious for every scan and worry about every new ache or pain. But we are also reveling in so much newness. New home. New energy. New views. New places to walk and eat and explore. We are laughing and saying “can you believe we just did that and that we live here now?”
Most of all though, we are excited for this new adventure and for getting to do it together something we haven’t dared to imagine – until now.
