The End of an Era...For Now

PJ did something big today, something that, to be honest, I never thought he would ever do. And on top of that, I did something big today, too!

First, PJ retired his real estate license. Yup, he is no longer a realtor in the state of Tennessee. It’s kind of weird, since I guess I figured he would just do that forever, but with social media work, the kiddos, the land, the flip houses, the animals, etc. he hasn’t found the time to dedicate to real estate to people who aren’t family and friends for over a year now. After talking about it for over a year, he felt it would simplify things to just retire it, and it was time. One less thing to worry about!

The main reason I’m going to miss him being a realtor? His ability to let us go look at any house for sale that we wanted! For years, if a house popped up that we wanted to see, he could just schedule an appointment and we would go take a tour. Luckily, both our moms are realtors, so we might still have the ability to do that in the future :).

And the big thing that I did today was sell my car! We are trying to simplify (there’s that word again) our life in 2021, and part of that means selling one of our cars. For the last few years, we’ve had PJ’s truck, our big family car, and my car. Before the kids, I only drove my car, a Lexus RX, and it was perfect for every day driving and super comfortable for road trips for just the two of us. But once the kiddos came into the picture, it was immediately too small, and we switched to our family car (and for the last year and a half, we’ve been switching back and forth between driving the two for convenience reasons). But finally, after months of PJ asking me to just do it, I listed the Lexus and within a week it was sold- just like that. And you know what? I wasn’t even sad to see it go. It actually felt good to see them drive off with it. Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.

So that’s all the news for today! Taking it one day at a time and making small changes as we go. And it feels so, so good, friend.