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We are the mother\/daughter duo, Janette and Jordan, and we have been writing this blog together for over nine years. \u00a0We came up with the concept because I (Janette) live in Kentucky, and Jordan was living all the way up in northern New York\u00a0 when we started our collaboration. \u00a0 We had recently down-sized from the burbs to a beautiful townhouse in the city, and Jordan had moved into her first starter home, a charming 1928 bungalow.\u00a0 Four years ago Jordan and her husband moved to Charlotte, NC.\u00a0 Since then, they have adopted a little girl and a little boy from Thailand.\u00a0 She is known on the blog as Little Miss, and he is known as Google. Google has been home less than a year. Even though we are a six-hour car ride apart, it seems as if we are next door to one another.\u00a0 After all, Jordan once lived in Hawaii, which is six time zones away from Kentucky.\u00a0 We came up with our blog’s name because we are in two different seasons of our lives.<\/p>\n
Decorating, crafting, doing budget makeovers, traveling, and gardening are activities we both have always enjoyed.\u00a0 We thought it would be fun to join Blogland and write about the things we love to do.\u00a0 Publishing a blog gives me the chance to use my journalism degree, and it’s a great way to keep us connected to each other.<\/p>\n
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I am an empty-nester and mother of two living with my husband in Lexington, KY. After living in our family home in the suburbs for 16 years, we decided to down-size to a great townhouse downtown. We went from 4,000 square feet to 3,000 square feet, a size we feel is plenty big enough for two.\u00a0 Since then, we bought a larger townhouse and have upsized.\u00a0 Downsizing isn’t for everyone!<\/p>\n
When not working on house projects, I love to bicycle all over the world and here in the Bluegrass State, garden, read, work out, travel, and spend time with my family and girlfriends. I have bicycled across the United States and in various countries in southeast Asia, Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n
I have been to 82 countries and territories and am working on my goal of at least 100. My college major was journalism, and I worked as a reporter for a daily newspaper after graduating.\u00a0 Eventually, I changed jobs and missed writing.\u00a0 That’s when Jordan suggested we write a blog together.\u00a0 I love writing this blog with my daughter. \u00a0Even though we are 395 miles apart, it keeps us close and gives us another common bond.<\/p>\n
We have had some amazing adventures together. \u00a0A few years ago, Jordan left from the foot of the Eiffel Tower on her bicycle. \u00a0I met up with her in southern Spain with my bicycle, and we pedaled through Morocco, Western Sahara, and Mauritania, to Dakar, Senegal. \u00a0This included the Sahara Desert. \u00a0We slept in tents for seven weeks and are two of the few American women who have done this. \u00a0It was one of the scariest and most grueling things I have ever done, but boy, did I grow as a person.<\/p>\n
We have both gone zip-lining through the tropical forests of Costa Rica and Laos as well as sky-diving. \u00a0Together we have trekked to the rim of the world’s second largest volcano and have swum with hammerhead sharks, regular sharks, and sea turtles. \u00a0I have climbed the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu. \u00a0We also have done our share of white-water rafting, and European bicycle trips together.\u00a0 Plus, Jordan loves kayaking and scuba diving.<\/p>\n
We have built houses together in Romania for Habitat for Humanity. \u00a0We headed up a group of friends who worked with single mothers in Cairo, Egypt to improve their living conditions in the slums of that city, and we led a group that built an addition to a school in an impoverished village in Laos. \u00a0We have led volunteer vacations in Burma, India, Argentina, Cuba, Zambia, Colombia, Nicaragua and Peru.\u00a0 This 2020 project is in the Philippines, and it will be our 20th volunteer vacation.\u00a0 In addition to these working vacations with Jordan, I have headed up work projects with my husband in nine other third-world countries.<\/p>\n
As far as the blog goes, we call it a lifestyle blog because we do a little bit of everything around here.\u00a0 We might write about redecorating a room, painting a piece of furniture we found on the side of the road, doing a project, traveling to Africa, creating or cooking a great recipe, or about the international adoption.\u00a0 We offer up a variety of topics, and we hope you will enjoy what you read here.<\/p>\n
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I recently returned to the South with the man of my dreams.\u00a0 In 2016 we became parents to a sweet little girl we adopted from Thailand, and a little boy from Thailand last year.\u00a0 For five years we lived in Syracuse, NY, but my husband’s job made it possible for us to return to the south.\u00a0 Before moving to Syracuse, I had the opportunity to live all over the country and went to school in the South at the University of Georgia. \u00a0Then wanting to try something completely different, I loaded up two suitcases and headed out to the west coast to live in San Francisco. \u00a0After about two years in that city, I then packed my bags again and headed to the Islands and lived a couple of years in Hawaii where I met my husband. \u00a0Our love brought us back to the mainland. \u00a0We lived in Maine a while and then moved back to Atlanta.<\/p>\n
My day job has me working on the redevelopment of industrial wastelands called brown fields, but when I not traveling for work, \u00a0you can find me working on house projects. I love being outdoors, hiking, kayaking, biking – \u00a0you name it. \u00a0I enjoy entertaining, hosting theme parties, and spending time with my friends and family and of course, our children and our German short-haired pointer, Gracie. You can read about our adoption journey\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n We have accumulated a boat-load of projects, recipes, household tips, budget furniture make-overs, decorating, and travel stories since we started this blog. \u00a0We would love for you to spend some time browsing around our site. \u00a0Better yet, we would love for you to become one of our regular readers. \u00a0You can or subscribe to get our blog posts in your inbox Monday through Friday, or\u00a0follow us on Facebook, \u00a0Instagram, and Pinterest.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Gracie1.jpg\" "\\"Gracie1\\"")
I hope you enjoy our blog that I love writing with my mom. \u00a0I will leave you with my favorite quote that I try to live by.\u00a0 It was written by Mark Twain. \u00a0 “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. \u00a0So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. \u00a0Catch the trade winds in your sails. \u00a0Explore. Dream. Discover.”<\/p>\n
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