New City, New Home, New Life, and New Layout

Please excuse me for my long absence on this blog. I have had an extremely busy two months and things are finally settling down.
I honestly never thought that we would move back to Tokyo let alone move at all. About four years ago we bought and built a house, our mini dream home. It was a very expensive and very much thought over investment. We bought a plot of land in a gorgeous neighborhood and proceeded to plan and build our dream.So on March 18 2008 my husband, my son and I moved into our new dream and started a new life.
I still remember the first time walking into my newly built home, I remember all the details that we had so excitedly put into our home, the smell of fresh pain, freshly polished wooden floors, and the overall brand newness ....with excitement I was ready to start making new memories and of course start decorating and buying brand new furniture for our new dream, that was five years ago.
About two years ago my husband and his partner started their own online business, needless to say their business has become very successful and he was constantly going back and forth to Tokyo. His constant traveling and not seeing us became a conflicting problem and we sat down one night and talked....after a very long discussion and much thinking and weighing our options for a few days we decided to sell the house and move to Tokyo. My husband is a very, very realistic and future conscious thinker and knew that moving would not only help his business but as a family we would be able to be together much more.
So with careful consideration and much thought we sold our house. It was a sad and sentimental but I can happily say that the house will still stay in the family, for my husbands sister and her husband bought it. I am reassured and happy knowing our use to be house is in great hands.
Well we are back! back to Tokyo and now living in another very wonderful place. We now have a new home, new life, and back to the city I longed to come back to.
Its strange and exciting on how in life you very know how or what your future will be or hold and every place, people that you meet, and experiences help your grow to the next phase in your life.
I think of these experiences like a snake shedding its skin in that with every shed you can start new and make new experiences that will help your grow and get ready for your next phase of life.
You many notice that my blog looks different, I wanted to totally change it and give it a more chic and simple look. As I said, how I look at my life like a snake shedding its skin, I look at my blog like that as well and wanted something that reflected the "new" phase in my life: Simplistic, organized, and more gorwn up....for I have grown so much over a few years and now at a different place in my life....an organized and simplistic( clean and minimal) place.