Musical Houses

For those who haven't heard yet, I thought I would fill you in on the house swapping happening in our life.  And also to have it documented for looking back!

As most of you know, we had tried to sell our Chestnut house, but wouldn't settle for "giving it away" in the rotten market.  We figured we would stay for awhile longer when our church hired a new worship pastor.  The family of 5 were living 45 minutes away, in his parents house.  They were not enjoying the commute and wanted to get to town.  They loved our neighborhood and were excited to rent our house from us.

We looked for a rental house for a few months, mainly in a city just north of us, but found that the rental market was pretty bleak (as our pastor had also discovered).  We wanted to try this city as we thought it might be a good long-term fit for us.

On Nov. 1 we moved into a home on a cul-de-sac that belonged to a pastor that moved to California.  We rented from him, letting the house stay on the market.  We were hoping that it wouldn't sell quickly, as it had very few lookers through the spring/summer and had huge flights of stairs to the main level. We were hoping to make it at least through March, which is what happened.  Happy for the pastor that his house sold, we were in a time crunch to find something new.

Our adventure told us that we enjoyed our new city, but we could not find a house to buy that we thought would fit us for many years.  We did find a house that we felt was perfect, yet it was not where we wanted it to be.  We asked the builder if he would build on a lot that we found and he said yes!

That left us having to find a place to live for 5-6 months...with a dog.  Again, I hit the slim rental market and chuckle at God's timing.  I secured us a place 6 days before we started moving out of our 1st rental.  It is a nice condo, but VERY small yard and the extra 8-15 minutes it takes me to get to the boys' school feels like hours!

As spring approaches, I am missing our Chestnut house and all the areas we had for the kids to play outside.  But, I am trying to look to the future and the excitement of our new house.  It is hard to do this, as we still have a bunch of dirt, but are hopeful that a form will start taking shape in the near future.  I have complete faith that this year of "adventures" is all in God's plan,that living in 4 different places with 1 year has a purpose, and we will use it for His glory.

Our dirt...which now has grass and weeds!