and just like that our new life has begun
after almost 10 years of being New York City residents my husband and I officially bought
a house and we moved out to the suburbs so we spent a couple of months living with each of
our families while all the renovation projects in the house were being completed but now that the
bulk of the work is done especially all the heavy construction the house is ready to be
lived in and we've been settled here for almost a month now and we are slowly but surely making
this place feel like home to us we moved by the water and having a house that's so close to the
beach has been a really new experience for us especially coming from New York City you know
when people ask the question are you a person who prefers to live in the mountains or do you prefer
the woods or the desert or the ocean well I am absolutely through and through a water person
I've also never lived by the water in my life but I would choose to live at the beach any day
of the week so I honestly just can't believe that this is now a part of our daily lives
so even though the big renovation projects in the house and a lot of the construction elements
are done a lot of the furniture is a bit of a different story we've been moving really slowly
when it comes to fully decorating the space a decent amount of the furniture that we ordered was
either back ordered or just severely delayed or it actually came but it was damaged and we needed to
send it back and get replacements so a lot of the furniture is not here yet I've also been reluctant
to order some of our furniture yet because I feel like I need to see some of the other pieces in
the space first before I choose certain things so for example there is a room where I really want to
put an accent chair but I want to wait until the rug comes so as of right now we've been living
with a lot more empty space than we're going to have and there's just a lot of missing furniture
and being without most of our rugs does make the space feel pretty echoey so it definitely
has that new house feeling all around a lot of people have been asking me how I'm going about
making friends living in a new town and this all started for me with some friends of friends so
once some of my closest friends from high school or college or New York City learned what town I
was moving to a few of them introduced me to some of their friends who already live
here with their families so I met a few of those people who then introduced me to some
more people from the town and it's just sort of branched off from there also sending Milo
to a preschool program has helped a lot because I've met a lot of other young parents at school
drop off and I'm also trying my hardest to get involved with some other activities in the town
I'm trying to join a tennis clinic where I'll be part of a group playing tennis every week I also
took a couple of dance cardio classes I joined a WhatsApp group that's filled with other young
moms who have young babies in the town and so far everyone I've met has been incredibly inclusive
it really feels like a lot of people are new to this town I know a lot of people moved to the
suburbs during covid times but it seems like even recently there's been a lot of new people moving
out to towns like this and so there are a lot of new families here and it seems like everyone is
trying to meet people and make friends so now on to the experience of being a first-time homeowner
I've heard people talk about home ownership for the longest time now and how difficult it is
especially when it comes to all the issues that tend to pop up around the house things that if
you were living in a New York City apartment say you would have a super or a maintenance person
that you could call whenever any issue like this arose but if something goes wrong in your house
you need to figure out exactly who to contact and you need to pay to get it fixed and so in typical
new homeowner fashion our first week in this new house seemed to come along with a decent number of
challenges so even though all of these appliances seemed to be working during our house inspection
something must have happened between now and then and for some reason when we got to the
house our washing machine our dishwasher and our garage doors did not work so Michael and I spent
a decent amount of our first week in the house draining out the washing machine water manually
into baking pans and then walking the dirty water back and forth from the washing machine
to the kitchen sink to dump it out and also just from living in the house for a few weeks we've
now started to learn some other things about the house that need to be taken care of so for example
the air conditioning works really really well in some rooms and some rooms are really chilly
but it doesn't seem to be reaching other rooms as well also after we moved in and we carried a lot
of big heavy furniture pieces inside some of the walls and floors got scuffed up a little bit so
some touch-ups still need to be made but Michael and I right now are basically slowly adding to
a to-do list every time we notice something needs to be done for the house we just write it down in
our list and we're really trying to remember that we have years and years ahead of us in
this house of being homeowners to tackle this list of course if there's anything pressing and
urgent we do need to prioritize it but we're just trying to not get overwhelmed by all the things
that home ownership can throw at us we realized that this is a marathon we really hope to be in
this house for years and years ahead of us so we don't need to accomplish everything all at once
and especially the to-do list items that are not urgent we don't want to feel stress over
them it's really easy to get sucked in to feeling like you just have so much on your plate and like
you need to focus on getting everything done so that your whole list can be cleared off and you
don't have any to-do list items but honestly if we lived our lives that way we would not have any
time to just enjoy ourselves in the town to make new friends to explore the area and just enjoy
all the little moments and we are really really trying our hardest to enjoy the moments Michael
and I have dreamed for years of owning a house living out in nature with our children we've
honestly had this dream together since we were in high school when we met and we cannot believe that
we're finally here and we're doing our lives exactly the way we've planned it for so long
so far my favorite thing about the house is just the overall energy of the space I don't exactly
know how to put it into words I'm not sure it's something that is coming across in video content
but I think it's partially because of the way the house is situated and the way the sun shines into
those windows along the back of the house all day it just brings such positive energy it makes the
place feel so warm so homey bright and sunny it just makes me happy to be in there every
single day and since Michael and I both work from home and we are spending most of our days in this
house the energy in the space is of the utmost importance to us and we just keep looking at each
other and saying we can't believe this is it we can't believe this is our house we're finally here
when I was living in New York City just before we moved I spent so much time thinking about
what this would feel like when we got here and of course I was really excited I thought it would be
a positive experience but I don't think I was able to fully grasp just how brand new life was gonna
feel in the best way possible it feels like we're starting a totally new phase of life and it's not
even the analogy like we're flipping to an new chapter in a book it feels more like we've put
down our old book and like we're picking up and starting an entirely new book it's just been the
best feeling in the world to enter this new stage of life and to have it feel just as fresh and new
and crisp as we hoped it would this is also such a great time of year because it's still warm outside
as the summer is lingering and so we're still getting to do a lot of outdoor activities but we
also have the whole fall ahead of us and we know there's going to be a ton to do with farms and
Orchards pumpkin patches so there's just a lot of excitement up ahead it was also a really exciting
week over here because I hit 500,000 subscribers on YouTube and for those of you who have been here
for years and years you know how long I've been at this I know some people start their YouTube
channels and just kind of blow up overnight or their YouTube channels grow really quickly
because they've blown up on another platform like Instagram or TikTok but for me this has been such
a slow and steady process I started making YouTube videos was really when I was in college and then
in 2015 so almost 10 years ago was when I dove into this channel and started posting a lot and
as most of you know I got my start at refinery29 where I was making videos for another channel for
years and years so when I finally brought people over to this channel and started creating content
regularly here I'm so grateful to those of you who moved over from refinery29 and followed me
here I cannot believe how many of you have been with me since I was a young 20-something running
around New York City before I was even engaged to Michael and now here I am married I'm a mom I live
in the suburbs I'm just totally in my Suburban mom era and it feels so good I know that this
stage of my life might be very relatable to some of you and to others it might be the furthest
thing possible from your reality but I really hope that no matter who you are or what Walk of
Life you're coming from that when you're watching this content you get something out of it whether
that is just a small insight into someone else's life in a totally different part of the world or
even if it's just pure entertainment and joy whatever it is I hope you're enjoying yourself
from being here and that my future content brings you a little pocket of peace or a smile [Music]
thanks for coming back to my channel there is a lot more ahead of us so I
really hope you'll stay with me on this future journey as we get settled into our
house and we keep decorating it and we keep making it feel special to us and like home
sending you tons of love from the suburbs thanks for watching and I'll see you soon
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