If you are new to An Island Mom, you may want to begin here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII. Part IX I tore the envelope off our door and opened it. Inside, it stated that the sellers of the other house had received another […]
Island Prequel
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part VIII
More than just about any house I’ve ever seen, that house had some kind of magic in its walls, a storybook feel to it. We had first stumbled on the house in the paper, and on our initial drive-by, it looked even better in person. Then, one day we looked on the internet, and the […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part VII
We waited, and eventually got our answer from the owner. He wanted full asking price and not a penny less. This just didn’t quite sit well with us. We had never been impulsive buyers, never getting our hearts set on one thing, house or otherwise, to the point of ignoring the price. And while the […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part VI
At some point during our search, I had stumbled on a book outlining some of the best small towns to live in within the United States. There were several cities that piqued our interest, including a small town in North Carolina called Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City is about an hour west of the Outer Banks, […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part V
The territory we were now looking at extended really from Virginia Beach to the north to the Florida Keys to the south. While this was a miniscule area compared to the world we had started with, it was still a relatively large territory to cover in terms of visiting and researching. And now, while much […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part IV
The phone rang, and rang, and rang. And then we got voicemail, so we left a message. Later we received a return call, and the realtor promised to forward us listing information on the properties we had found. The listing information never arrived. We waited, hoping we’d get a packet in the mail, or an […]