What has been happening in Casa de Wannabe?  Well…..

We went to the spring fair: 

Anna Grace had a lot of fun checking out the llamas and riding rides.  Here’s a photo of her on a little canoe ride.

While at the fair I may have lost my mind.  I bought a fleece.  A Targhee fleece that had won a blue ribbon.  Haven’t done anything with it but I did buy it.

Casa de Phlegm:

After this little adventure my allergies were in high gear.  This later set me up for some sort of creepin’ crud which later resulted in me spending endless hours attempting to cough up a lung.

Then I lost my voice.

Voice is starting to return and I’m still coughing.  Such is life.

Pretty Colors:

In the shop I listed the Dream in Color yarns and the Smooshy Sock is selling like hotcakes.  I had to re-order.  I also placed an order for Seacoast Handpainted Yarns .   Meanwhile, Dana (a.k.a. Hubby Tech Support) is trying to move the shop around a little bit (I wanted to re-decorate.  HAH!) and he’s trying to set up a new buyer rewards program that we’re calling Sonny Money.  More info on that in the not too distant future.

I think this website stuff has reached a place that Dana despises it when I say "I’ve been thinking about the business and I have an idea".  I think that just makes his blood pressure go up.

Decisions, Decisions:

We’ve also been making some decisions around here.  (Brace yourselves.)

When we moved to Washington I resisted for a few reasons.  One of the biggies was concern that Dana’s parents would be alone in Florida.  Who would help them out with health issues, hurricanes, etc.?  I never imagined that it would be my family that would have one health crisis after another.  But starting one year ago with my mother falling down an embankment and breaking her leg, there have been non-stop issues on my side of the family.  This week I was faced with the possibility of one more emergency trip to NC but things worked out.

Anyway, many months ago Dana and I began to discuss whether we should return to Florida.  The idea would come up and then we wouldn’t talk of it again for quite some time.  Basically he didn’t have a job in Florida so there was nothing to discuss.  However, as things progressed with my stepfather we started to discuss it more and more.  With my mother now living alone and without anyone to give her a hand should she have another accident, etc we decided we really ought to do something.

We then discussed whether we should move to NC.  But NC is not a good state to have a child with any sort of special needs and therefore it wouldn’t be a good place for Anna Grace.  In addition, being right close to my mother could lead to tension.  If we were living in Florida I can drive to her house in a day and there are multiple flights from Orlando to Asheville each day (and my mother spends part of the year in Florida). In addition, I already know the Florida system for getting services for Anna Grace.  No need to learn a new system.

So we were back to discussing moving to Florida.  But, again, Dana’s job is here. 

We weren’t sure if we were doing the right thing and often we still have doubts.  But we both felt like we received confirmation that we were to return to Florida when Dana’s employer said he could work from home, from Florida.  So, we could return to Florida, take care of our families, and Dana could keep the job that he loves so much.  So that is what we’ve decided to do.  We will be putting the house on the market this week.  It is our hope that we can return to Florida by the middle to end of the summer (just in time for hurricane season!).

I feel very odd about posting this and I have fretted and fretted about what to say, how to say it, etc.  We only moved here a little over a year ago.  I guess I just feel flaky for returning so soon and I hate feeling like I’m being a flake.   I just keep telling myself that this is necessary.  This is needed.  This is right.

Dana will be returning to Washington about every other month or so and I hope that I can travel with him for some of those trips.  Eventually if things calm down with our families we’d like to be able to spend part of our summers out here.  It is a beautiful place, especially in the summer.

(For those poor readers who had to stick through reading about me trying to sell a house for SIX MONTHS, you have my heartfelt apology but it looks like we will slog through another real estate adventure.)

That’s what’s happening in our little corner of the world: a little stress, a little unrest and a whole lot of coughing.