Today was our big move! We will be spending our first night in our new house tonight as a family. The move went incredibly well. We are so blessed to have had help from family and friends - we couldn't have done it without all of them.
Last night, the girls got to spend the night with their Grandma Betty and Grandpa Dave while Ben and I powered through packing and getting ready for today. While I really missed my sweet little girls, it was great to be able to just focus on packing and know my girlies were getting lots of love from my parents. I am so grateful to all the help they have been for our family this summer and always.
Ben's parents were a huge help to us as well. They gave us a housewarming gift of new carpeting in the whole house and as if that was not enough they have also taken over cleaning up the old house to help get it ready for our new tenants. We are certainly blessed to have great parents and we are thankful for all they do.
The move itself went very well. Ben and I got everything all onto the main level of the old house before everyone came and we were all loaded and heading to the new house before noon! The unloading went very smooth and pizza was delivered right as the last box was being carried into the house. Lunch was a welcome break for fellowship and resting our sore muscles after all that heavy lifting!
We were blessed again when friends from our church mini-congregation stayed even longer to help unpack a few boxes and make sure all our beds were assembled so that when we needed to crash we could.
My mom helped to by watching the girls all day and by the time she brought them to us their rooms were all set up and it was dinner time. We ate the leftover pizza and then the girlies enjoyed exploring their new rooms and the rest of the house. Another blessing was how easily they went down for bed in a new environment for them.
God is definitely doing great things for our family and we are so excited to see what He has in store for our family as it grows. Moving into our new home is a big step as we begin the adoption journey. Hopefully once we are all unpacked we can begin the homestudy and continue on this amazing journey! We are so grateful to everyone who has helped to make this portion of the journey a reality.
Hoping, Praying, Waiting for you
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Sold!
Today we officially closed on our new home!!! Despite a small snafu with our homeowner's insurance yesterday, we managed to get through closing today and the house is officially ours! After closing, Ben and my dad built the new swing set in the back yard - something that will come in handy tomorrow as the girls and I hang out all day while new carpet is being installed.We even had our first family meal together at the new house with pizza on the deck. While the girls were playing on their new swing set our next door neighbors came out to meet and greet us. We are excited for the move Saturday and for it to start really feeling like home!
Praise God for this step as we continue to look towards adopting! God is great and He has blessed us beyond measure!
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Crunch Time!
We are officially less than a week away from closing on our new home! I am so excited and equally exhausted as we are preparing for this move. I will be happy when we are all moved in a (maybe) life will be a little less hectic. This has definitely been a whirlwind of a summer, but we are so blessed through it all.
June came with horrible news from our renters that they had flooded the entire basement 8 inches deep with sewage (something we are still battling) and learning we might have to walk away from the new house. However, it also brought fun days home with my sweet girls and ended with continued waiting for a closing date on the new house.
July was definitely busy! I was teaching Spanish to Spanish speakers Summer school to 5th graders and the girls got to spend 4 days a week with their Grandpa Dave. It was so wonderful seeing how happy they were to spend that extra time at their grandparents house and I really enjoyed my group of kiddos at summer school. Midway through July we got the news we'd been waiting for since the end of February - an official closing date on the house! That news put us in overdrive to begin all the preparations for moving. Something we knew was coming, but did not feel concrete until the actual closing date was set.
Since we are renting our current house, our first order of business was to prepare the house for showings to prospective tenants. I listed the house on Craiglist and within 48 hours we had 8 showings scheduled! The very last day of July brought us the final showing with our future tenants and the lease was signed two days later. Whew! It was definitely a relief to know that was taken care of, and we then put our focus on packing.
With August here, we are packing, packing, packing! Shannon has K Camp this week at her new school, so I decided to send Amelia to daycare while she is there so I can focus on getting everything sorted into boxes. We only have a few more days until we head to WI to see my Aunt and Uncle at "Musky Camp" - a trip that was planned well before we had the closing date. While it feels a little weird to be going out of town right before moving, I think it will be a welcomed break from all the craziness that packing and moving entails. I am excited to have some relaxed family time :)
Next week we close on the house and move the following Saturday. Already, next week is filling up with carpet installation, TV installations and minor projects before we have the BIG MOVE.
Life may be a little crazy right now, but I am so blessed by all that God has given our family. From the opportunity to buy a new home big enough to adopt two or more kiddos to countless small blessings from family and friends. I don't want to lose focus of how big I'm blessed in all this craziness, nor do I want to miss out on those small mommy moments with the girls.
You can tell the girls are excited and also a bit uncertain about everything. Shannon has even come to me a few times to say "Mommy, I'm worried about moving" :( But, when I remind her we will still be together as a family and all the nice things about the new house she gets excited again. Little Amelia is confused by all the changes, but her smiles and giggles bring us joy even when the stress levels are high. They have both been amazing through all of this and I love listening to them play together. I am definitely a blessed momma.
In addition to my two little blessings, I am also so blessed to have Ben through all this. He has been working tirelessly at work and home to get us through the move, the Sleepy Eye rental horror and everything else. We just celebrated 8 years of marriage and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for us and our growing family.
God is so good and I definitely want to be sure I take time to praise Him for all He has given us even through all the crazy busy days we've had and have to come.
June came with horrible news from our renters that they had flooded the entire basement 8 inches deep with sewage (something we are still battling) and learning we might have to walk away from the new house. However, it also brought fun days home with my sweet girls and ended with continued waiting for a closing date on the new house.
July was definitely busy! I was teaching Spanish to Spanish speakers Summer school to 5th graders and the girls got to spend 4 days a week with their Grandpa Dave. It was so wonderful seeing how happy they were to spend that extra time at their grandparents house and I really enjoyed my group of kiddos at summer school. Midway through July we got the news we'd been waiting for since the end of February - an official closing date on the house! That news put us in overdrive to begin all the preparations for moving. Something we knew was coming, but did not feel concrete until the actual closing date was set.
Since we are renting our current house, our first order of business was to prepare the house for showings to prospective tenants. I listed the house on Craiglist and within 48 hours we had 8 showings scheduled! The very last day of July brought us the final showing with our future tenants and the lease was signed two days later. Whew! It was definitely a relief to know that was taken care of, and we then put our focus on packing.
With August here, we are packing, packing, packing! Shannon has K Camp this week at her new school, so I decided to send Amelia to daycare while she is there so I can focus on getting everything sorted into boxes. We only have a few more days until we head to WI to see my Aunt and Uncle at "Musky Camp" - a trip that was planned well before we had the closing date. While it feels a little weird to be going out of town right before moving, I think it will be a welcomed break from all the craziness that packing and moving entails. I am excited to have some relaxed family time :)
Next week we close on the house and move the following Saturday. Already, next week is filling up with carpet installation, TV installations and minor projects before we have the BIG MOVE.
Life may be a little crazy right now, but I am so blessed by all that God has given our family. From the opportunity to buy a new home big enough to adopt two or more kiddos to countless small blessings from family and friends. I don't want to lose focus of how big I'm blessed in all this craziness, nor do I want to miss out on those small mommy moments with the girls.
You can tell the girls are excited and also a bit uncertain about everything. Shannon has even come to me a few times to say "Mommy, I'm worried about moving" :( But, when I remind her we will still be together as a family and all the nice things about the new house she gets excited again. Little Amelia is confused by all the changes, but her smiles and giggles bring us joy even when the stress levels are high. They have both been amazing through all of this and I love listening to them play together. I am definitely a blessed momma.
In addition to my two little blessings, I am also so blessed to have Ben through all this. He has been working tirelessly at work and home to get us through the move, the Sleepy Eye rental horror and everything else. We just celebrated 8 years of marriage and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for us and our growing family.
God is so good and I definitely want to be sure I take time to praise Him for all He has given us even through all the crazy busy days we've had and have to come.
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