Four days and a wake up.
We close on our new old home, the Paynter home, in just a little over four days. I don't remember being this anxious, excited and nervous for our closing on the Holland home, the home we have lived in for a little over 16 years. But then again, when we closed on the Holland home our life was more chaotic. We were living with my parents, Jerome had just gotten off active duty for the US Navy, Spencer and Natalie were little, 3 years old and 6 months old, and little did I know it at the time but I was pregnant with Katie, our youngest daughter.
It's been a blessing how everything for this new home has fallen into place (knock on wood). To be honest, we have talked about moving for the past four years, but it was always with the plan of moving south. We fell in love with Charleston, South Carolina, when we visited friends of ours several years ago. With Jerome being in the Navy, we were always in a coastal town when he was on active duty. When he was off of active duty and a reservist we still visited these coastal towns every summer. Being near the ocean and larger cities was something we loved, something that felt like home to us.
But life happens, things change, and for us, it was not moving south but rather staying in the same town we've lived in for the past sixteen years. The town that has grown to be our kids hometown.
It's a small hometown, but it is a wonderful one.
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