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 💚💙

This week, in our Lowcountry, Spring in South Carolina, Lifestyle!

SO Much Beauty in the Lowcountry

Beautiful girls
Beautiful breezes
Beautiful views
Good food
Good times! 


 
My sweet girls.....growing so quickly



pretty sunset photos from my front yard, this evening:
 

TBT, five years ago:

 our first three weeks in SC, landed us in three different houses on Lady's Island.


Our first house was a little green 500 sq. ft cottage in the backyard of someone's property, in the heart of Beaufort:). It's a good thing we're camping people:)
 
The second house was a very large and beautiful home with amazing views overlooking the marsh, and surrounded by lots of trees. This was in Pleasant Point on Lady's Island. Unfortunately for us and the homeowners, this house had been very heavily damaged with cigarette smoke by the previous tenants. This wasn't clear to us at first because they had it heavily "perfumed" with a citrus carpet cleaner. I was sad we had to leave this house, but it was so badly damaged, the property managers walked in and were overwhelmed with the fumes, and not only released us of our lease, but reimbursed us 100% (just so grateful our household "stuff" was still somewhere in Atlanta). It's too bad, we would have loved living in Pleasant Point!
 
We then went back to the rental cottage to keep searching.
On July 4th, 2010, we managed to find the house we wound up renting for 8 months. It was a larger than the cottage, but much smaller than the first house in Pleasant Point, had a large fenced in back yard (which was perfect for Piper and for storing our boat and camper), lots of trees and a little pool.

on this day, five years ago.....

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May 18, 2010 ·

It was such a beautiful day we had to take an afternoon "field trip"---we hit Boerner Botanical Gardens and Basse's Farm for icecream (bribery for the girls letting me take a thousand pictures at the gardens of them:D)"

....we were so blessed to live within a couple of miles of these beautiful gardens. When we got home that night, we found out we were moving to South Carolina (and our WI life suddenly became very hectic with the mass exodus;) The girls' ages: 4 and 6....they both still had most of their baby teeth....

 





 

Our yard is in bloom!

LOVE living in a land that is colorful year-round

Welcome to Fall in South Carolina

Father's Day 2014 and Celebrating Four Years in South Carolina

 

Four years ago on Father's Day, we hooked up the boat and camper and headed to our new lives in SC with a job but no place to live:).

Very grateful! And our first time here...sitting on the deck with great food, great music and great breezes! — at The Crazy Crab Hilton Head.  (The baked potato and side salad were out of this world;)  While we sat on the deck, the girls enjoyed the playground and sand area just below:)  We were gifted with special tourist prices too!!  :/  (it's the first place you see when you come onto the island; although we had a great time and the food was good, there's probably a good reason why most locals don't come here or have never been:)

 

 

 

 

  

and of course we hit the beach for a bit....

 

 

 

and my sweet fairy girl pointed out pointed out that she has officially lived half her life in WI and half in SC...it seems like just yesterday that we were packing up and headed down.Fairy Girl  was just past the toddler days . But somehow during all of this, the girls got a lot taller;)

Photo one was taken in Wisconsin hours before we found out we were moving, in May of 2010.

Photo two taken on Hunting Island in June of 2010.

Photo three taken on Hilton Head Island in June of 2014. 

 

snfff snffff...nolstalgia:(

Great Times; feeling SO VERY Blessed