Hold on tight, here we go!
Last summer while we were in France for two months, we seriously began to think about the possibility of moving there for good when our children (4 and 7 at the time) begged us not to go back home. They like France more. Sounds too simple, right? But they are children, and that was their only excuse.
We tried reasoning with them, explaining that if we really lived in France, we’d have to work and go to school like everyone else. That didn’t slow them down. As it turns out, trying to reason with them quickly turned into trying to reason with ourselves. Well, we started to think about it. We’ve wanted to move back to the south of France for 13 years. Why not just do it?
That’s when it all began. When we got back to St. Louis last August and geared up for the school year, I went into my first faculty meeting of the year knowing in my heart that it would be my “last first meeting of the year”. Since then, we’ve been quite busy trying to get our house ready to go on the market.
Now it’s almost May, the house has been on the market 36 days, and we’re playing the waiting game. It would be so nice to just know where we’ll be in three months time. No home sale = No move to France (not for another whole year).
In my next post I’ll summarize how we’ve spent the last nine months preparing for the big move.
Living in Languedoc 
How exciting! Good luck!
Thanks! It’s very exciting, but hard not to know exactly when everything’s going to come together. Hoping really hard for this summer!
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Really? Thanks!! I’m not sure what Mrs. Sparkly’s Ten Commandments Award is, but it sounds awesome!! Love your blog too.
Bon chance et bon courage! I know that waiting game all too well. It took such a long time to sell my house in California. But it finally happened and I have been living the dream for five years this October.
Léa
Five years, what a dream. No regrets, I’m assuming?
Take me with you……….and check out http://peopleplacesandbling.com/ I have been following Theodora’s blog for some time. All the undiscovered places in Paris. Best of Luck!
Thanks for the link to Theodora’s blog, I’ll be sure to check it out. Sounds just like what I’m enjoying these days. I was just looking at your blog too, but haven’t had too much time yet to really explore. Looks like you’ve done a lot of traveling! You have a lot of really interesting posts that I’m looking forward to reading.
Any idea where in France you’d like to live?
Yes, in the Languedoc region, near Béziers (on the Mediterranean, but not on the Riviera side).
Haven’t been there specifically, but the area in general is gorgeous! Go for it girl!