The New House and the Move

I've been meaning to take the time to show you the house we are attempting to buy. It's close to the church building and sits on a nice wooded lot. The current owner is refurbishing it with new plumbing, electric, flooring, kitchen, light fixtures. The circumstances of the deal are such that we will be able to afford it even though we won't be able to move in immediately.

We close on our current house this Friday. Everything has gone really well on that front. The new owners are great. We're praying that they will enjoy the house as much as we did. It was kind of sad on Sunday afternoon (Father's Day!) when we gathered around the dining room table for the last time as a family (M and A are at camp this week--see the pictures from dropping them off on Sunday afternoon).


We thanked God for the many meals we ate together in that place and began anticipating new meals in new places (There may be a communion meditation in there somewhere).

When you think of it, pray for our move. Make the better part of your prayer into thanksgivings, because things have gone so well. Right now our furniture is slowly disappearing into the storage unit, along with boxes of things that we won't be using over the coming year.

Oh . . . I almost forgot to mention that my mother-in-law made it up for a visit this past weekend. Barbara flew-in from Naples, Florida to look at the new house and to consider buying the lot next to it. She would like to build on it eventually. She liked the lot and we think she's going to be our neighbor someday. That should make for interesting blogs in the future! We had a good visit. Here she is with the girls at supper on Friday night at Chedder's in Johnson City.