Ever so careful with my wishes...

It's a done deal now.  We're on our way to Florida.  Naples, Florida to be exact.  I'm so excited and scared and worried and hopeful and nervous and positive all at the same time.  How, you ask?  That's pretty much how I am internally on any given day.  Yeah, I'm kinda deep.  Or a little touched but who knows for sure?

Back to Naples... Hubby starts working there in a week and a half.  Lease is signed on a new place and we pretty much stayed within our budget.

Oh now about the beaches!!!  We will be only 20 minutes (15 if hubby drives) to the beach!  The community we're moving to has a pool that looks awesome.  Oh and it's a gated community.  So fancy, right?  Not!  Almost every community in Naples is gated, which allows me to believe I'm living the life of the rich and famous.  :-)

 

This picture is of Vanderbilt Beach in Naples.  I'll be 20 minutes from this!  

The best news ever is that I will NOT be packing or unpacking.  The moving company is doing all of it.  This is a big deal and I'm ever so grateful.  

I really wanted to live in Florida nine years ago.  I got the chance in 2005, then again in 2007 and once again in 2010.  Each time I moved back to Jacksonville, where we made friends that became family.  Not to mention my actual sister who's still in JAX.  I wished for Florida while sitting outside having lunch with an ex in February 2004.  I didn't even wish for him to come with me.  Now that was some serious intuition by the way!  I wanted something beyond New Jersey and I believe Florida is that something beyond.  Corny, yes.  Not everyone loves the state, but my roots run deep there.  Actually from Georgia to Florida.  I feel compelled to live there.  I know my kids may move on but it's really where I want to be.  I am ever so happy my husband feels the same way I do.  

I can't wait to update this blog with our new adventures in Naples!