We're Moving!!

Well, the process has seemed to be slow and full of lessons in patience. We started the house hunting process some time after New Years and it took us 3 months to find a house that we thought we could make into a home for our little family. We put our offer in and it was accepted!! No going back and forth to get somewhere. Wow, we never thought it would happen that fast. This house filled our heads with lots of 'stuff'. There were issues that would need to be fixed or updated before we moved in and there were things about the house that we didn't love but we thought "hey, we can live with it." This house was in foreclosure...a.k.a. EVERYTHING TAKES FOREVER. I don't think we will ever consider a house in foreclosure again...too much uncertainty and need for an overabundance of patience!:) We were going to close on this house April 1st...just a few days before then we were told by our realtor it just might be a good idea to start looking at other houses in case this one fell through. WHAT?!?! Great...we just came full circle from where we were a month ago only to sit at the starting line again. God is so dedicated in His passion to teach me the meaning of trust and patience. I was really needing it!

Well, March 31st came around and I was again out with our realtor searching for a house...telling her that for some reason beyond my comprehension I had peace that God was going to work everything out for good. Hmm, sounds a little like a Bible verse I grew up knowing! That peace walked us to a house that can now (almost) call our own!

In all our searching God had the perfect home for us...but, we were tied up in a deal with a house that WAS NOT perfect. We believe that God's hand was on us in all of this because if we had not been waiting forever for the foreclosed home to get their act together we probably would have found another house that we would have just settled on. God is so good!!

Now our heads are filled with lots of ideas for this new house...ideas to make it a home:)