PLANTING ROOTS: NEW HOME AND A RETURN TO SCHOOL

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There’s been a lot shifting under the surface with the Makepeace Family over the past few months.

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As with all new chapters of our life, we embrace it. Life should never be about standing still and doing what you’ve always done just because you’ve always done it.

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During COVID, we finally received our green card – after 17 years of hoping, dreaming, searching for solutions, and then implementing the miracle path we found.

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We learned quite quickly that our dream home was not going to happen and we’d have to make some sacrifices. Right now, we want to just get into the market and have a home to live in with the girls for the next few years.

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It’s such a weird feeling right now. To finally feel settled. To not be striving towards the next best thing. To have a 17-year dream realized and I can now dust off my hands and say we are done.

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