Ok, so here's the deal:
Last year, my husband Adam and I decided to move from Raleigh to the Charlotte area, in order to be nearer our families. We bought some land (15 acres), sold our house, built a new one, and had a baby (#2), all in the same year. The result...well...we have a house in the woods and two cute kids. And...a house in the woods. A house that eats up our money and sucks up a great deal of our time. A house at the end of a long gravel road, from which we can see: birds, trees, grass, coyotes--not bad. From which we can't see: neighbors, neighbors' assorted trashy stuff (and neither can they see our stuff--also not bad).
The idea was that we would try to give our kids the kind of upbringing that we had as children, that we'd get out of the burbs and away from all the Playstations and malls and Starbucks and such. That we would become the kind of people who check out books from the library, and play Trivial Pursuit after supper, instead of the kind of people who eat dinner hunched over a TV tray, staring at Law and Order. Basically, our goal was (is?) to try to suck out the marrow of life and all that jazz. So this is a blog about how this process is going for us, what's going right and what's going...well, not quite as right.
I'll keep you posted!
Last year, my husband Adam and I decided to move from Raleigh to the Charlotte area, in order to be nearer our families. We bought some land (15 acres), sold our house, built a new one, and had a baby (#2), all in the same year. The result...well...we have a house in the woods and two cute kids. And...a house in the woods. A house that eats up our money and sucks up a great deal of our time. A house at the end of a long gravel road, from which we can see: birds, trees, grass, coyotes--not bad. From which we can't see: neighbors, neighbors' assorted trashy stuff (and neither can they see our stuff--also not bad).
The idea was that we would try to give our kids the kind of upbringing that we had as children, that we'd get out of the burbs and away from all the Playstations and malls and Starbucks and such. That we would become the kind of people who check out books from the library, and play Trivial Pursuit after supper, instead of the kind of people who eat dinner hunched over a TV tray, staring at Law and Order. Basically, our goal was (is?) to try to suck out the marrow of life and all that jazz. So this is a blog about how this process is going for us, what's going right and what's going...well, not quite as right.
I'll keep you posted!
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