This is the story of my journey. It is uniquely mine. We all have our own unique journey.
I've always craved organization, order and balance.
I was a busy homeschooling mom of three children (14, 12 and 9). My hubby was a high school teacher in a rough area of a large city. Life was getting much too complicated for our liking...the long commute to work and back each day, the traffic, the high cost of living in our area, the numerous amounts of regulations and red tape. My husband used to quip one needed a PhD in "garbeology" just to put out the garbage each week as it took hours to get the garbage ready just to get it to the curb.
Yes...life was getting much too complicated.
With this not being the life we'd envisioned, we decided to change things up. We wanted to live as simply as possible so decided to sell our home, pack up and move to a place where we could do just that. Living near the ocean had lots of appeal despite the fact it was 3000 kms away -- clean air, crashing waves, whales, icebergs, slower pace of life, less regulations, less red tape, less stress --- the list was endless and sounded ideal to us!
However, even the best thought out plans can soon be turned upside down by something unexpected and this plan was no different. It was about to become one such statistic.
Shortly after we'd sold our home, tragedy struck. A death in my husband's family occurred and while we knew for a short while the death would be happening, the fallout that ensued from the death was not. Life as we knew it was about to completely change forever.
We had to keep moving forward through our own plans, as we had to be out of our home by a certain date. The days and weeks that followed the death were unimaginable to me.
I did not realize the journey we were about to embark on.....
I've always craved organization, order and balance.
I was a busy homeschooling mom of three children (14, 12 and 9). My hubby was a high school teacher in a rough area of a large city. Life was getting much too complicated for our liking...the long commute to work and back each day, the traffic, the high cost of living in our area, the numerous amounts of regulations and red tape. My husband used to quip one needed a PhD in "garbeology" just to put out the garbage each week as it took hours to get the garbage ready just to get it to the curb.
Yes...life was getting much too complicated.
With this not being the life we'd envisioned, we decided to change things up. We wanted to live as simply as possible so decided to sell our home, pack up and move to a place where we could do just that. Living near the ocean had lots of appeal despite the fact it was 3000 kms away -- clean air, crashing waves, whales, icebergs, slower pace of life, less regulations, less red tape, less stress --- the list was endless and sounded ideal to us!
However, even the best thought out plans can soon be turned upside down by something unexpected and this plan was no different. It was about to become one such statistic.
Shortly after we'd sold our home, tragedy struck. A death in my husband's family occurred and while we knew for a short while the death would be happening, the fallout that ensued from the death was not. Life as we knew it was about to completely change forever.
We had to keep moving forward through our own plans, as we had to be out of our home by a certain date. The days and weeks that followed the death were unimaginable to me.
I did not realize the journey we were about to embark on.....