I'm In

I have lived in Jackson all my life.  I've never lived anywhere else. I am a mother, an artist, a writer.   
    So, I am doing this blog.  I need to start from the beginning.
    Well...here it goes.....  
    On one (of many) of our escapades to New Orleans, and Mardi Gras, I saw these signs all over the place.  "I'm In".  At every house, every restaurant, every office building, on every corner.  The "I'm In" was a new marketing campaign for the New Orleans Hornets.  I saw it as something else.
    I've been coming to New Orleans since I was a little girl.  We always went to St. Louis Cathedral (it always reminded me of the princess castle at Disney World for some reason), the French Market (before it became commercialized), and to the Cafe du Monde for beignets and chocolate milk (yummmmmmm!).     I remember riding the free ferry to Algiers, and our family bicycle rides, the pleasant streetcar and carriage rides.  I think I can even remember coming with my family to the 1984 World's Fair.  Yes I feel so old!  I always enjoyed my visits to New Orleans.
    One day.  I just did it.  "what did I just do?"  I kept telling myself.  Is this for real???  The first time in my life I actually "feel"  like an adult.  Weird, I know.  Crazy?  I can say that, too.  Days of searching, driving around the neighborhoods.....getting around the one way streets....the city with no left turns........
I finally found it.  We met with our friend, who is also a realtor. (Ethan grew up with her children when he lived in New Orleans with his mom)  She tried to turn the key, and it wouldn't work.  She tried for a while, and she jiggled it a certain way, then it worked!!!  Voila!  We went up the stairs, through the screened porch.  The cool breeze was amazing.  The tropical birds in the Japanese pear tree, the Hibiscus tree, one of our favorite flowers! It was beautiful.  Our blank canvas.  (the real estate co. who represented the property told us that the place had been vacant for a while, because they could not get the key to work!!!)  I did something very bold, I put down a deposit!!!!!