on this day, six years ago:

In January of 2010, after years of talking about relocating from the Midwest to the Carolinas, I had had enough. In January, we contemplated forcing the move, but we soon realized that would have been much more costly, challenging, and would have landed us in the wrong location. Very quickly after that...I began consciously doing some VERY powerful visualization/manifestation techniques....I never read about them (in fact, Mike Dooley had not written those particular books yet;)....but by golly, what I did is exactly as he later described! 1. I visualized as if it's already happened. That became really easy as the girls and I visited my parents in their FL home for three weeks:)....it made it really easy to feel like we were already living in the southeast, during winter;). 2. Take some small action step towards your desire: while in FL, I purchased a set of wind chimes and envisioned them in My Carolina backyard forest (got the forest too!) 3. Let it go and trust the process: this is the hard part, not obsessing over it, but this was a good time to hold faith, trust, and patience. Well, by the end of our three week trip, my hubby flew back down to drive back with us, and said he had received a call for a phone interview in Beaufort, SC....(literally his first interview offer in the Carolinas, in the three years he had Been applying). The drive was out of the way, but he said it was near Savannah and asked if we should go see the area. Of course I jumped on that and said yes...and suggested since his phone interview was that day, to change it to an in person. (And yes I loved the area;).....fast forward, one month, four more phone interviews, one more in-person interview, and one crazed mom who was struggling with the patience thing. On this day six years ago, I took the girls to a nearby garden, taking a gazillion photos; took them to our favorite ice cream shop at a farm near our house...just knowing these were our "goodbye WI" photos.....and we received the call we had been very eagerly anticipating, that evening! p.s. The Powers to Be landed us exactly where our hearts belong...grateful beyond grateful 💚💙