living situations

I haven't updated about our current living situation or house hunting for awhile. Altho, if I am friends with you on fb, you probably know everything I am about to say. =)

Let me start by saying just how much we appreciate Brad's gma for making room for 5 people in her house. I'm sure it is just as big of an adjustment for her as it has been for us. You already know she lives about 20 steps from the house we just sold. Our two houses were built by her brother back in 1998. They are almost identical on the inside. We both built on in 2007 and added a room so they are kinda different but not much. So she has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms like we did. As soon as we knew our house was sold, she started cleaning out closets and dressers and the master bathroom to make room for us.

Now we have 5 people and all our necessities crammed in 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. So imagine a master bedroom that is 12x12 (I give you the dimensions so you realize it isn't a huge room even tho it is the master), in it is our queen size bed, 2 tall dressers and 1 long dresser. That basically leaves only a walk way. The other bedroom, I'm not sure the size but it is smaller than the master, has a full size bed (Hannah and RYan share it) and a twin mattress on the floor beside it for Abby. There are also 2 tall dressers and a long dresser in their room. The twin mattress takes up the walk way unless we stand it up. The closets couldn't hold one more piece of hanging clothes if my life depended on it!

So let's back up to Jan 8, the day we closed on the house. We still had about 5 boxes to get out of the house and the washer and dryer. We didn't hand over the keys (we forgot them at home) at closing but told the new owners that the doors were always open (don't forget we live in Buffalo), they could start moving in whenever they wanted. SO we were getting out the last of our belongings while they were bringing in the beginnings of theirs. I like to think we have a pretty good neighborly relationship with them.

Once we got everything out, we spent the rest of the day packing for the cruise and left the next morning. So we never really had time to mourn the loss of our first home. I still haven't thought about it much. I guess it will really hit us when we make it to NC.

And when is that, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine! We are going to let the kids finish school up here, which has been moved back to June 11 with all the crazy weather and water crisis. We have been searching the realtor sites and craigslist about every day for either a house or a piece of property on which to put a modular. There is something about every single property we find that doesn't fit our criteria so we are still looking. I'm hoping as soon as it gets warm down there, the market will pick up and we will have a lot more to chose from. Until then, we continue to pray for God to show us the right house or land and just help up be mindful that our wants are not that important. I try to stay focused on the fact that serving God in our new neighborhood is most important.