Well….. we did it again… last time, we sold our house in 5 days… this time we sold our house in 4 days…. I’m starting to think I have a second career in staging homes to sell quickly. ha ha! But the big news is that we are moving back home to Florida! Stephen and I love Nashville and all it’s amazingness, but after a 6 month whirlwind, and a brutal brutal cold winter, we began to get really really homesick and realized we don’t like living so far away from our family and loved ones back home. We also realized we are miserable in cold weather and need to be back in the Sunshine State. So we sold our house and are moving back home next week! I will miss the creative spirit of this city, the rolling hills, the beautiful architecture of the homes, the Southern culture, and of course the new friendships we made in Nashville, but the greatest lesson we learned in the midst of everything is…. home is where the heart is, and there’s no place like home.
Here’s a few other fun things we learned along the way during our stay in Nashville:
1. We are year-long warm-weather people. We will never move further north of Jacksonville again.
2. I am not a boots/layers/scarf/jacket person. I feel way too claustrophobic in layers.
3. Life is more comfortable in flip flops. Year round.
4. Some trees don’t stay green all year round. Some change to colors of red and orange.
5. Wild turkeys don’t have colorful tails the way used to draw around our hands in kindergarten.
6. Horizons aren’t perfectly straight outside of Florida. They have curves.
7. Most people in Nashville have at least 2 jobs. Music and (fill in the blank).
8. A 2-minute scene in television takes 10 hours to film.
9. You get more house for the money in Nashville, but a big fancy house doesn’t make you any happier.
10. My soul is most at peace on the water. And there’s not much water in Nashville.
11. Life is too short to live so far away from those you love most.
12. Home is truly where the heart is even with all its imperfections.
13. Rhett doesn’t do snow. And neither does his momma.
14. It’s better to say “We tried it!” than to always wonder “What if we tried that?”
15. Palm trees are a beautiful beautiful thing.
Yet, despite it all, I will miss this gorgeous every night on our street setting over the hills of Nashville. It will remain permanently in my memories of our breathtaking evening fall walks.
Aww, congrats again on being able to move back home. It definitely isn’t easy living far away from family & friends. I especially love #14!
Thanks Urban!! 🙂 Yes, sometimes it takes moving away to appreciate the closeness of family and friends you left behind.
Dear Scarlett & Stephen: You dared. You adventured. This thing called “LIFE” took you to Nashville, but it is LOVE that will bring you home.
#10 and #13 — so me! We might be related 🙂 This post brings perspective as desires linger in me to move away from California.
Y’all in my thoughts and prayers. Always. xoxo
Life is a daring adventure of nothing at all… or so Helen Keller once said, right? 🙂
GUYS. You’re awesome. You came, you saw, and now it’s time to go home! May your new chapter be full of adventures… by the sea 😀 Best wishes to three!
Thank you darling!
Yay!!! I am so happy to hear it:-) XXOO
I am in awe of you both…you went out and you went after something you wanted…when you decided it wasn’t really what you wanted..you changed your path…THIS is what life is about!! Can I just say…WOW!! This is what I preach to my kids daily…go and do what you want…if you decide later to change it…then…change it!! Don’t ever say..”what if”!!!! Safe travels!!!!!!!
Thanks for the encouragement Dina!
Scarlett…I need a stager pronto…come work with me (@:
Good luck and yay! There is more of a chance of us seeing you in JAX than Nashville!
Glad you continue to follow your heart!
ha ha is there a real career in staging houses? How’s your real estate business going? Keep me posted if ya’ll come to Jax!