Summer Dashe

I would crawl across this country even if it killed me to celebrate you, Alena Lee! Can’t wait to get her married in just a few weeks back in South Carolina where it all began. 🤍

Selling Someday…

When I built Someday Cottage, I truly believed we’d hold onto it forever. Nearly every week since we opened the arched front door to guests last May, someone new has filled the house with life. People have shared memories with their kids fishing in the backyard, celebrated holidays with family by that iconic fireplace, and gathered with friends on the porch where you can truly listen while admiring the mountains.

The photos, messages, and stories I’ve received from visitors have meant more to me than they will probably ever know. They honored my dad in the most beautiful way possible: by actually living the memories he never got to make.

For those who haven’t read the Someday Story, it’s still up on StaySomeday.com, but I decided to build the lake house after he died. He always wanted a house on the water…someday.

He also raised me to chase dreams. To welcome opportunity. To be unafraid of fighting for what I believe in. A few years before he died he was interviewed about my condition and tearfully said, “I tell myself that someday they’ll cure it.”

So while you can imagine how excruciating this decision has been, I believe the ultimate Someday is still out there and so did he. It’s the day when the condition I, and millions of others, suffer from is cured. The techbio company I work for is opening its first headquarters in California and I will be joining our team there to chase that goal.

This also means after 18 years, three states, and six moves, I’ll be moving home. Original home. Just a short drive away from where I grew up.

My genuine hope is that whoever buys the cottage discovers the same thing we did the first time we saw the water. When they step inside the house I hope they feel the care in every detail so lovingly designed from the finishes to the furniture to the layout, each chosen with purpose. I hope when they get there they feel peace and healing knowing they’ve made it, finally, to Someday.