A Perfect Souvenir

So.

3 days from now, I will be inside my car, with both babies in tow (sleeping hopefully), husband, dog, and a trailer full of very essential things, on my way down to South Florida.

Yes, WE ARE MOVING to FLORIDA, ladies and gentlemen!
Wait!!? are there even any guys that read my blog anyways? lol

Can you believe it?
I can and I can't.

About a year and a month ago, we were moving to South Carolina.
Something we wanted to do since before we got married.
We came here on a little vacation and decided this was the place we were going to raise our kids in.
(I mean, Jodi used to spend many summers here with his family and lived here for 3 years too, so he was already in love with it.  But I fell in love with it as well right away)
We still love it here, don't take me wrong.  It is a beautiful, friendly and very family oriented place to live.
But I have to say, I left a lot down in Florida.
I left my family.  I left some wonderful, wonderful friends.  Pollo Tropical, PF Changs, La Bamba, Lemon Grass... (and when you move somewhere that doesn't have a place that delivers sushi, these make a difference).
I left, my heart.

So yes, I am very excited to move back!
I will be even more excited once this whole move is over ;-P

I have been very quiet lately but my life is definitely not a quiet one.

Besides having the prettiest, most adorable, cute and happy little baby girl, I have been non stop.

Jodi has been busy trying to find a great job - and I have to say, God is great.
We have gone through many scary moments regarding his career and our finances, but everything always seems to fall into place.

I have had many many friends come visit me during these past few months. I am one lucky gal :-)
And in those visits, I had the pleasure of "hosting" the biggest sweet pea meetup thus far. 6 of us.
(Sweet Peas = friends I met online who all had the same due date as I did with Jonathan.  We have connected in such a way that it is impossible to describe and I can truly say, I love them.  I also have been able to meet some of them in person and spend some wonderful times with them)
It was a little challenging for me, I have to confess, having so many people, plus their kids, all here at once.  And I also have to confess, I did have a bit of a meltdown the last night, just because that's how I am. 
Sleep deprivation is a bitch! And being a clean freak, that also had to do with it a little bit.
Plus, I think it was just a little too much for me to handle, with the baby, and the upcoming move and Jodi leaving me on the weekdays for the next month.... u get the idea.

So I have been packing and being super mom.  Yes! I am calling myself super mom! ha! and I think I do deserve the title! At least for this one month.

I can't really remember the last time I was not in the middle of something. 
Like a move.
Or perhaps, having a baby!
Or planning some kind of party, or trip, or who knows...
Always something! hehe!

HA!
Seriously. There has not been ONE dull moment in my life in quite sometime.
And although it can be a little stressful at times, although it can challenge me in some ways that some people couldn't even imagine, although it can wear me out, I love it!
I have always been a project kinda girl!

And about moving.  My mother told me the other day something that made me laugh.
Ever since I was a little girl, I used to LOVE moving everything around the house that I could, around.  Sometimes when I was at home alone, I would rearrange all the furniture in the living room and surprise my mom.
And our bedroom, forget about it! haha! my older sister used to always fight with me because she could never "find her stuff."  (what guts huh?  I used to clean the whole room and make it look amazing and she would still pick a fight! lol)
But yes, I was seriously obsessed with it.  It was bad.
So apparently things haven't changed much in that department.  The only thing is that I am not only changing furniture, I am also changing the houses they go in. LOL

So fast forward to tonight again,  Saturday, September 25th. 
A few days past my 34th birthday.  Which by the way, was good.  I had caviar for the first time and I didn't spit it out! (granted it was not ONLY caviar, it was a mix of things that made it all taste yummy)
I am laying in bed, updating my blog (which I had been meaning to do for SO long) and watching all the good shows that recorded this week - premier week!  - and I didn't see because I am a good wife and I waited for Jodi to come home so we could watch them together.
A bit anxious because we have to do so much tommorrow and the next day and the next...

It's going to all seem like a dream.
This whole Charleston thing! This whole past year.
We will go back to Florida and look back and think, did that really happen?
Well, it did.
And we have a perfect little gift to show for it.  Our littlest, the prettiest and most special baby girl, Julianna Sophia.
Conceived the night we moved into this house.

Now we get to move back with an extra, cute little person.

We go back to where we met and fell in love, with a souvenir. 
A souvenir from South Carolina.
And a perfect one.