Truly A New Year

This New Year will truly be a new beginning for my family. For the first time in almost a decade we will be debt free and moving into our new home here in Orlando. We've found the perfect house for us to grow old in together. It's a couple of blocks from my brother's house with a lake access across the street. The price is low enough we will be able to afford and have a pool put in as well. It's in a nature preserve and the serenity abounds. The backyard is already fenced in for our troop of pups and totally look forward to spreading out a little more.

Three bedrooms, two baths. Not too big but not too little. As Goldilocks said "It's just right."

Tim and Massey went to look at it today and having our agent contact them this next week. Just hoping we can snag it but we all have a pretty good feeling about it.


It appears we'll be using a lot of glass cleaner but love the sun room and all the windows. Praying really hard about this one; of course we've been praying a lot for quite a few years.


We've looked at quite a lot houses and been tempted by a few with a higher price than we originally wanted and am glad now we waited. Yes the others were beautiful but this one just feels like home ... and home is about where the heart is, not the price tag. Tim's only objection was that it sat at an odd angle on the corner lot.

Odd?!

Sounds like the perfect angle for this clan of Clampetts!

Massey's going out on her own soon and will have two spare bedrooms for visits from everyone.


Besides...

We've managed to be happy in every home we've lived in, regardless of the circumstances.

                        Humble beginnings but where all three of our kids began their lives.

Then we bought a newly built house in Newnan and raised them there, along with all the other neighborhood kids.

The first fifteen years were like living on Easy Street. The next few, not so much but still managed to be happy; just grateful we had a roof over our heads.

                       Then my husband aka 'Ole Jed' made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us.



After literally years of  serious financial trouble, he got his (and our) lucky break. Only problem was it required his moving to Lubbock, Texas for two years.

                                      This was us waiting for his flight to begin boarding.

 We all stayed home while Tim moved to the middle of nowhere...alone, for two years. I took this pic of him on the plane train while I took my lunch break while working at the airport to see him off at his gate. He didn't look thrilled.

But...he did great in Texas. He only got to come home twice the entire time but knocked his job out of the park and got a much deserved promotion...and transfer to Orlando.

Then he lived in Orlando for another year before we followed him. He was away from family and friends for three years just to make it happen for us.

That's the kind of man you want to marry, and lucky for me, I did.

 



We moved once again, into a tiny temp rental so small we could talk to each other from different rooms across the house in a speaking voice.

It had been recently renovated and was clean, giving us a place to sleep and store a quarter of our belongings. The rest of our furniture and things are still in storage here in Orlando with a few bigger pieces of furniture still in our house in Georgia.

Once again, we've been happy here.

                                      I'm almost ten years older but twenty years wiser now.




We've moved from home to home to home and pretty much started at the bottom, worked our way to the top, back down again and are inclining back up.

You don't need to find your way home again, but simply find love wherever your home may take you.

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year. We're planning on it...hang around to see what happens.

Till next time...COTTON