'Half Back'

That's what people in North Carolina jokingly call us. Let me explain. Hubby and I grew up in NH. We set out from there a couple times, but those are stories in themselves. About 2 years ago we took our first family vacation and went down to Florida for the first time. We visited my sister, her husband, and their 3 kids over on the Gulf of Mexico. We stayed there for a few days. We had a great time. LOVED the weather. And all but decided this was the place for us.

Then we headed over to Disney World! That was a long, tiring and wonderful day. It's every childs dream to go to Disney and it was so great to be able to make that dream come true for our children. We normally live paycheck to paycheck. Enough to get by with a little bit extra sometimes so this trip was a dream come true for us to pull off.

After that we headed over to the East Coast of Florida to see my father, whom I had been estranged from for years. He is/was an alcoholic and we stopped speaking for many large reasons that I'll explain in a later blog. We had just started speaking on the phone over the past 6 months or so and it was still so awkward. We ended up staying at his wife's house (yup she insists it's her house) which held her 2 teenage sons, and my brother. It went amazingly well.

After our vacation we headed back to NH with our big plans to move to Florida when the school year ended. Long story short (much more on that later also) we lasted 10 months in Florida.

We ended up moving to Charlotte, NC in March of 08 following some work leads for my hubby. We lived in the city for a while and HATED it. Then almost 6 months ago we found this lovely house in the country (but not far from restaurants and stores and only 45 mins from the big city) that we are in LOVE with. We are very happy here.

Back to my title. People, friends, and others that learn where we have moved from call us that because we started in the north. Moved to the south. And then only made it half back!