Winds in the East…
I have been putting off this blog post for a while now since I wanted to put off this topic as long as possible. I’ve been having a hard time calling my work in Sarasota to an end. I finally made the decision (ok, really I had no choice at this point) to shut off my services pages from my website (no it doesn’t always look this sparse) and my contact page since I am not in a place to support additional families at this time. I have been low-key referring all my inquiries to other providers under the guise of being fully committed for the past few months as this is what I have committed myself to. Since I updated my website to reflect this I felt it was best to explain the “why”.
If you have followed our personal journey for the past few months (since Dec. of ‘20) you already know we moved.
We moved out of our beautiful house close to the beach to embrace a lifestyle where we were able to be together as a family and really connect for the first time. We moved into a 5th wheel as our home base for the next short chapter of our lives so it can afford us to really focus on what is important to us as a family and help us make conscious decisions about what we want for our family’s future.
One thing has been made obvious to us and that is, we no longer feel that Florida is home. Our goals of homesteading, and having big dreams for multiple acres is not a possibility in Florida for our current budget. With that, we have decided to play around with the ideas of where that might be… Believe it or not, we have spent a few conversations about the possibility of Hawaii, Norway, or Ireland - we’re staying in the US (& mainland), but it was still fun to talk about!
We had initially planned to stay in the sunshine state until the end of Autumn, but we’re feeling a shift in the winds. To quote one of my favorite childhood movies “Winds in the east, mist coming in, like somethin' is brewin' and bout to begin.”
I’m excited about this move as our intention is this will be our last move. My last time moving. This is a huge deal for me since I feel like I have lived a nomadic lifestyle since I was a child. I am excited about finally feeling the freedom to literally and figuratively plant roots and establish lifelong relationships.
I know this is a big reason why I keep a lot of people at an arm’s length for me personally. Not letting too many in since I have always known it was just for a short season, and it’s too painful to say goodbye to those closest. Self-preservation as a blessing and a curse…