| | I guess it's about time I update and tell you that.... WE GOT THE HOUSE!! Woo-hoo!! Ok, that was how I felt the first day. Since then it's been a bit stressful trying to figure out what we have to do to actually get it, that is close on it and get keys and make it truly ours. Since it's a HUD home it's complicated and could take a long time. But it turns out to be better than we understood in the beginning. We have to get quotes from contractors or suppliers of materials for all the work that is required to be done on the house and submit them and then we wait for HUD to process their end of the deal, which as we understand could take a couple months. All I want is to be in before camp starts cause if we don't make that then it might not be til fall. And this summer is going to be SO busy with Wes at camp all the time that it's just so important to be in the house, where we'll be super close to camp and also alone in our own space. We would get a lot more family/ couple time in together that way. So before we move in, we've got to get the floors down (hard wood so it could take a while), paint, fix roof, replace windows. Those are the main things. There's a few details like replacing kitchen sink and stove, oh yeah and tile. Maybe not just details. Well anyway, we're really happy about the house. It just might be really hard to get the work done in Wes's free time between the time we close and the start of camp (training starts middle of May). Me and my big belly probably aren't going to be down on the floor nailing wood in but I should be able to paint!!
Right now we're housesitting for a family in church that lives in a beautiful log home which happens to be near Wes's parents. That's nice cause we see them a little more for these two weeks and it's also nice to see what it's like to be a family where the wife stays home during the day with the kids and the husband comes home in the evening. Ah, sounds so picture perfect. That actually only happened once! We have so many plans in the evenings. Oh well! It's a farther drive too so it's really making us eager to get in that house that's CLOSE!!! Especially since we're driving separately all the time.
Do I sound too negative? I really am SO thankful. For the house, for our time here at the cabin, for everything that God is doing, for Wes's job... I'm just growing, as usual, in trusting God and handing worries to Him. Interestingly, our Bible study this week was about worshipping through times of waiting. I guess this is a time of waiting for me. Waiting for the house and being thankful today for what I have today. God is so good!
Please pray for us! (Wisdom for decisions, adjusting to working out of home husband, etc.) Thanks!! |
| | Posted 3/14/2008 1:10 AM - 10 comments
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I'm sure you will.