By: teresaslackhargett

teresaslackhargett — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:48:52 +0000

Your home is exquisite – exactly what I picture as a dream home. I’m somewhat of a displaced southerner, as all of my extended family is from below the Mason-Dixon line and my father choose to come upstate New York to the finger lake region in the 1940’s after the war with his bride from Abilene Texas! He came from the University of Maryland to work on his Phd at Cornell University and he ended up teaching here from 1945-1984 when he retired. By then I met a northern boy, had three daughters, went to Cornell myself and even worked there too. But now – I see a way back home (so to speak), My oldest daughter went to the University of Maryland, and is now married and living in Bethesda. My middle daughter has been living in Chicago for several years, basically having having fun and enjoying the city life but recently has been talking about wanting to move somewhere ‘warmer’ and closer to her sisters. Which brings me to our third daughter who is her third year of college on a lacrosse scholarship (or I wouldn’t have let another one go that away!) It’s a small school 40 miles south of Charlottle, NC just over the border into South Carolina. Seeing your lovely home has made me even more determined that we can can all get closer together in and around that area. I’m no longer working and 54 – my husband is 57 and wants to stay here until he retires in 8 years. I say that’s WAY too long to wait! A picture of your house and the beautiful way you’ve furnished it with the Habersham pieces that allow it to look so homey and comfortable; and appropriate for the style of the exterior of your home is going up somewhere in a central place in our home so we can focus on our dream! AND I know your home will be.what convinces my husband that the time to retire is now while we can still influence our daughters to move closer together and we can be near them as well. They grew up in an extended family situation, because my parents lived on the other side of our duplex house – but the doors between were never shut. Now both of my parents have passed and the girls want a similar way for their children to know us. I’m working on it, Your house will be on my mind everyday, basically the basis for our next family move and be drawing us all closer, and my hope is in North Carolina. Your picture is going to be the basis for our next big family move south. You did a marvelous job – tell your daughter what good taste she has; it looks like you enjoy a close family too. Take care and thank you so much for sharing your lovely home. Terry Slack Hargett, Ithaca, NY

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