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We move a lot. Everyone gives us a hard time for how many times we’ve uprooted our lives to hit the road in the RV or just bought a different house in a different part of Fort Worth. Truth be told for most of my adult life moving was a coping mechanism for me. I often tell people that my favorite days in elementary school where the days when we rearranged the desks. I love change, actually I’ve depended on change to distract me from the uncomfortable truths hidden deep inside me. But that’s the topic for another blog post, maybe.

Over the last year I’ve spent time in therapy trying to better understand myself. It has helped greatly and through it I’ve learned to sit in uncomfortable situations when everything in me is screaming out for change, for excitement. Our plan was to travel this summer in the RV but as I was going through my therapy I found my desire to spend the summer on the road to be less and less. As I’ve settled into a different mindset we started having discussions about what really want for our lives. Do we stay in Texas? Or do we pursue our dream to live in a cooler climate and hopefully near water? In the end we knew that we couldn’t pull Lil away from her family, especially her young cousins. There are far too many sleepovers and play dates for me to ever feel okay with that decision. We’re staying in Texas.

Being confident in that decision we started talking about our plans for being here and being happy. Our plan was to spend time in our current home saving money until we found our dream home. When we finally found it we’d be financially prepared to do it comfortably. Well, the look didn’t last as long as we thought and we’re now closing on our dream home at the end of September!

The house is located in Weatherford, TX right near Lake Weatherford. We can see the freakin’ lake from our back yard and nearly every window in the back of the house. It looks nothing like Texas and we couldn’t be more excited! There’s almost nothing we would change about the house, it’s pretty perfect for us. One of the features I’m most excited about is the unfinished detached shop which we’ll be converting into a man cave/cigar lounge. It’s currently just studs and an epoxy floor but I’ve got big dreams for the space. I tend to spend 1-2 days a week sitting outside watching movies while enjoying a cigar and while my cigarden tent has been amazing this will be a definite upgrade, especially in the hot and cold months.

I’m pretty excited to try my hand at doing some of the finishing work myself, at least I think I am… I also know myself well enough to know that if it feels too overwhelming I’ll probably have to hire someone to do it.

So far the packing process is going great; Crys and I have improved our health dramatically over the last year which has made the physical activity much easier to handle. Crys definitely has more than her fair share of stress dealing with all of the mortgage, insurance, etc but she’s doing amazing.

Of course we can’t wait to get moved, hopefully for the last time!