How All Of This Happened (Part 3)

Today, we're continuing the story of how we went from bundled-up-freezing-cold-dog-shivering New York . . .

To waking up to incredible views like this one from our cozy hotel room in Sausalito . . .

It's a fairly well known fact that I hate snow. Yeahsure, it's real pretty to look at, but then it needs to be shoveled and scraped, and then there's the coat, the hat, the gloves, the boots. I'm the kind of girl who likes to get up and go - snow (and its evil friend ice) gets in the way of that.

"Can you imagine waking up to this every morning?"
"It snowed again in New York."
"So glad we're not dealing with that!"

All of this time, Jeff was still looking for a job in New York.  We weren't moving. We'd decided months before that we were not moving - that I could not move away from Nicholas. And, besides, who just moves across the country on a whim? None of the responsible adults I know!

Neither of us remembers who brought it up first. Both of us remember how those first conversations ended.

Because, seriously . . .

But....We have great friends in the area. Jeff's sister and her husband had just moved here. NY was having a terrible winter with lots of snow. Avocados in January. No kidding.

And, most importantly, that boy above?  He's a man now. I don't know when or how it happened, but he is.  He works, is in college, and has a wonderful fiance. He has a life and (much to my chagrin) he doesn't need me right there every single day.

Our decisions were mostly small ones that were all leading to the big decision:  Jeff would look for a job in the area, but not stop looking in New York either.  We would take it all one step at a time. See how things evolved and make decisions based on whatever happened next.

Jeff sent out a few resumes and started hearing back almost immediately. First one phone call and then another. One interview and then another. This was looking pretty serious pretty quickly.

We started talking about logistics. Where would we live? How would we move our household items out here?  Could we really do this?

At around the same we started looking at houses online. I fell in serious love with one of them.  We stalked drove by the house. It was in a beautiful older neighborhood with lots of great big tall trees. I was even more convinced this was our house after we toured it (several times) with a real estate agent.  We made an offer and it was accepted right away. Wahoo!

Around the same time, Jeff heard back about the job he was most excited about.  Could he start in two weeks?

It was for real. For really reals real. Yikes.

And that's the story of how a boy, and a girl, and a dog ended up moving from New York to California. Pretty crazy, huh?  And now I'm wondering - what was your biggest spontaneous act? There must be some great stories out there.