Erik: I work from home as a software engineer on database and website projects. I look forward to cross-country skiing out the back door of our cozy carbon-neutral home and learning to cook for a big group!

We'll miss Western Mass., but how cool is it to know so many of our neighbors-to-be already?! It sounds like we'll probably get a car-sharing coop going too (similar to Zipcar), which will be great. (My other car is a bike. :-)

Ask me about Mosaic's superinsulation, air-to-air heat pumps, pellet stoves, or BTUs per Heating-Degree-Days! We'll be installing solar hot water panels after move in.

Jessica: I'm a stay-at-home mom kept busy playing with our three-year-old Ansel. I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and would love to learn Norwegian) and was a French-to-English translator in Geneva, Switzerland, for three years before we moved back to Massachusetts in 2002. I look forward to ice skating on the pond in the conservation land just down the hill. What a dream! And we'll be so close to Lake Quinsigamond that I might someday have to break down and get back into sculling... tempting! Anyone want to share a scull?

Ansel: Hey, I'm only three and don't know it yet, but I'm going to love downhill skiing with my parents this winter at Wachusett Mountain... and when I'm four I'll be carpooling to Sudbury Valley School with some of the other kids from Mosaic! How great is that! Right now I just like hiking around on the trails on the land with my parents. If Mosaic was already built I would ride my tricycle up and down the pedestrian paths all day long!