As I sit here full from leftovers, it occurs to me that last year at this exact time, we didn’t even have a place to live here in Nashville yet! It was almost December, Liam had the flu, and we were to fly out at 7pm to get into Nashville at 9pm to begin our search. I remember when we flew over Nashville for the first time, it was dark, and the lights of the city were twinkling. I was so excited and hopeful and nervous. I remember I got teary, and felt like I was home. Before we left for this specific trip, I didn’t even know if we would like it here, I mean, Grant had already been here, and KNEW this was the place for us, but I didn’t. I had been here when I was 8 for a family vacation, and that was it. It hadn’t worked out, because of schedules, for me to get to Nashville before this trip, and we were to move and be settled in one month!! It was crazy, absolutely crazy, but I was so calm. Once we flew over Nashville, I was so. Calm. As we flew over the twinkling lights. I just knew. We hadn’t even landed yet, and I KNEW we had made the right decision. We had chosen our little family of 3. We said YES to the burning of change. We said goodbye to the safety of routine and knowing, and said hello, to the unknown, to the “gut feeling” and to our *new family of 3, who would spend the next 4 months getting to know each other again.
Fast forward to today, as I was driving across the Veterans Memorial bridge, to meet one of my clients at a local lighting shop. This was the moment I began to reminisce. In one year, we have enhanced our life as a family so intensely, that I cant even believe it. I have started my own Interior Design business with 3 real life clients ( Thank you for helping my dream come true), I’m working on a full house, a Master Suite addition and a top secret, exciting, soon to come, residential project! Grant is so happy with the part that he plays in the new team he is a part of, and Liam is thriving as much as a 4 year old in pre-school thrives 😉
There are still days filled with the battle of fear and excitement. There are still days where fear takes over, and I realize I work for myself now ( wahoo) and, I WORK FOR MYSELF NOW (oh SHIT!). I don’t want to leave the impression that we followed our intuition and it was FLAWLESS…far from it! We still have days of uncertainty, but that uncertainty, is trumped every time, with the pride, that comes in knowing that we followed our intuition and decided to make a life that WE wanted to create! We chose connection!! and if there is one thing I am certain of, its that one of my gifts from the universe is helping people “Connect”!! That means to their spaces, to other people, to ideas, to themselves, to dreams. I don’t think I really get to choose the “How” my job is to remain open to however that “HOW” shows up…and I am SO OK with that!!
I love our decision, I love my new business, I love my family and I can not WAIT to see whats on its way for us!! Feeling Thankful in Nashville!
~Kim
*New Family of three…when we lived in New York, we were the family of three that ate dinner as 2, and then as 1 when G got home, we were the family of 3 that was really only 3 on the weekends. NOW we are REALLY a family of 3 all the time.
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