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Wonderfully, the weather warmed up just enough. Just about eight days ago, we were in the minuses, then the sun came out, and it warmed up to 30 degrees. Ice had melted, we actually broke out into a sweat. My brother came by to help Friday night and helped move the heavy stuff. My mother and best friend watched the kids in shifts which was extremely helpful. There was a lot of prework to do. It's not like we were moving into a move in ready, pre cleaned apartment. This was a fix up and basically soon to be our own property, so we had to do a lot of the work, it has been empty for almost two years. Lot's of construction debris. The hardwood floors were redone so lots of sawdust to wipe up. We need to clean up our apartment still but we have until Sunday. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with the move. Now I must be perfect (so my brain says). No more excuses why you can't bake that bread, lead the kids in an exercise. Does anyone understand? As a homeshooling parent, I at times feel the heavy load of taking care of EVERY aspect of the children's live, playmate, instructor, bible teacher, etc. But I'm praying and please think of me in your prayers that I lean solely on the Lord for His help. I know He will guide me and I will fall if I don't look to him.
Overall, though, I am really pleased with this move. Our dear Lord knows exactly what we need at the proper time. I feel that we have been lead to this home, it is larger, but not too big. God has given us a huge learning curve to learn the ups and downs of owning a home. My aunt eventually wants to sell it to us. I am glad we decided not to rush into buying a home, but took this approach. Patience is something I am learing as well. As Proverbs 31 speaks of woman are to know the scales. I feel this move weighs in to our benefit. Also, we are paying down our debt and learning to become better stewards of our money and we will be able to do those two things while being in a larger space. I am so pleased with my husband's desire to be more frugal and handle money better. He can now walk into Target and get exactly what is on the list and nothing more. |
Hopefully by next weekend I will be writing to let you know how everything found it's proper place. Not really. We will probably let go off structured schooling for a week to get the house in order.Comments
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