We've been living on the edge for 10 months now. Ten months ago today was when we looked at our lives and said, okay, let's do this thing. The day before, John had gotten laid off from the corporate thing, and we knew we had to make some big decisions. Why not add career and location into the mix, if we were talking about big decisions anyway? Right? So we did and we put all our eggs into a basket and shook the basket. (Note: don't shake real baskets of eggs.) Would the Centreville house sell well? Heaven only knew. When we bought it, the market was in a nasty spiral. I paced around, imagining foreclosures and worse. It sold well. Could we handle the uncertainties of the new property? Could we find a place to stay while we sussed it out? Yes, and yes, with the help of a tremendously supportive network of friends and family. What about the runway? The runway was the length of time that we had to get si...
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