We are faced with decisions from the very first day of our lives-some are life-changing while others can be much less important. We may spend hours or even days debating with ourselves about making a change in our lives and then again, we can make a change subconsciously and never know we did it.
If you have lived in one State, in one area, in one house, for over twenty five years, a place you love that has almost become a part of you over the years; how do you make the decision to sell out and move to a totally different environment? You have talked with friends and family about the idea to move and everyone has a different notion as to what is best for you.
When my husband and I began to mull the urge to find greener pastures, I don't think it was really
greener pastures that we were looking for so much as pastures with less grass to mow and fewer trees to trim-pastures less green, so to speak. I think the best advice we could have gotten was from a dear and close friend. She told us to follow our own hearts-"don't let anyone else make the decision for you-because no one knows
you better than you, yourself."
So, after many hard years of putting our
blood, sweat, and tears (and God's good grace) into a home that literally grew from an empty and over-grown pasture, we made the decision to sell out and move from our first home. It had been a long hard road to get to where we were. Our first year there, we were nearly burned out by a grass fire because the volunteer fire department couldn't find us in our hidden retreat. Luckily for us, we were both young enough and healthy enough at that time to fight our own fires. Now we felt it was time to move closer to our doctors, hospitals, and shopping centers.
Our country home was beautiful, but the all-day-mowing, weed-eating, pool-cleaning, and gardening has taken its toll on our old arthritic joints and we finally realized that it was truly
Time to Start Shopping For a New Front Porch. Everything we did, we did for our kids and grandkids; now it was time to start thinking about
Grannie and Papa.
We have gone from this front porch:
To this front porch:
Now we have 1/2 acre of yard to mow vs 7 acres and no swimming pool to clean! We are five minutes from doctors, hospitals, and two minutes to Walmart (my little grandson loves that!).
And so far we are as happy in our new home as we were in the old. We have already begun to make new memories. A time to move forward to the next phase of our lives.
