How Did We Get Here?
I don’t think that 10 years ago, we would have imagined our life living where we are and doing what we are doing.
Truthfully, I don’t think we could have imagined our life here while our son was still alive.
After he passed away in 2013, we had to come up with a new direction for our lives. Previous to that, he was our sole focus and we lived life to make his easier. After he passed, we had to reimagine what life would be like as a bereaved couple in their 40’s, who had just lost their only child.
Staying in our home was not in the cards. It was too difficult to live in the same house as we had built for our son. So we listed the house for sale and started looking outside the community that had been our home for our entire lives.
Selling our house was a long and tedious process. It was custom built for a child with a disability, and we needed to find someone that fit with how it was built. In the end, we found a couple that thought it would work for their lives.
In the meantime, we had found our dream property and it was 90 minutes away from where we had grown up and raised our son. But we knew it was time to move on and find a new path for us, so leaving was not as difficult as we thought it would be.
Moving here was not without its own problems. The sale had issues going through and there were many bumps along the way, but in the end, it became our new home. Our new life. Our new vision of how the second half of our lives will be lived. And we were stoked!