23 Acre Wooded Dream

Our Family's New Way of Life

Our family is about to enter a whole new way of life.  We are currently living a "fast-paced suburbia life" in Florida.  We are a family of 7 and dad is the sole provider of our family.  Mom stays at "home" and homeschools their five children and also holds the title of "president" for the largest homeschool support group in Florida.  We are very active in our growing and alive church.  Our lives are filled with many good things.  But needless-to-say life is really too busy for our own good.

About 6 months ago, the dad and mom began thinking there was another way to live.  The thought of slowing life down a little was very appealing to them.  We thought of starting our own business, maybe selling homeschool books, would be something of interest to our family.  We investigated it and although it's not our main focus, it's still a possibility.

The cost of living is soaring in Florida.  The housing market has skyrocketed.  Since owning our house for 5 years it has more than tripled in value.  We began searching for other areas that would be less expensive to live.  After a few months, Tennessee came into focus.  We also began correspondence with friends that we hadn't spoken with for years who had just moved to Tennessee.  So we thought maybe God was leading us to Tennessee.  We searched and decided where we would like to live there.  Then a family vacation in February was scheduled to visit our friends in Tennessee.

We really loved it!  It was just the perfect place for us to live.  The town was nearby large cities and towns and that was good for us.  We found a realtor and she was great!  She had been looking for houses for us to look at while we were visiting.

Well, we fell in love with a home.  This home was situated on 23 acres of wonderful wooded rolling hills.  The home is exactly what our family needed and the land is only what we have dreamed of.  It already had a working garden (which was a dream of mine). 

So right now we are in the process of selling our current home.  We have until the end of May to sell (which is when we wanted to move anyway).

More about a want-to-be homesteader soon . . .

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02:07, 2006-Mar-13 .. Posted by OurLittleHomestead

Well, welcome to Homestead Blogger--glad you're here!

I have lots of friends in Tennessee...it sounds like a wonderful place!

Lisa

What a dream come true!

02:36, 2006-Mar-13 .. Posted by Splitty

Wow! What an amazing change for you!! I could only dream of such a thing. 23 wooded acres?!?! Wow! That is just awesome! Congrats to you and I am SO excited to hear more from you about how things go! Good luck with selling your home and keep us up to date with the move. Perhaps I can live viacriously through you......lol. Great post and look forward to hearing more!
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Cassandra

Great News

04:03, 2006-Mar-13 .. Posted by southernbelle

Good for you and the family! Sounds heavenly. Tennessee is one of my favorite places to visit. Welcome to hsb.

WOW... Sounds like a dream come true....

06:55, 2007-Jan-27 .. Posted by Jennifer01

how is everything going???? This was almost a year ago???