Moving Day

I am not sure how all this came to happen over the holidays but it seems that God's plans are quite different than I had imagined.  I am not so sure why we plan, as basically everything I thought or worried about has happened in a much different fashion...and not in a bad way.  We found a wonderful house for our family-such a perfect fit for all the kids and stuff that comes with all of us.  The entire process was much less than exciting than what I imagined-the emotions ran from excitement, sadness and mostly just general worry overcome with the heaviness of making such a big decision. It was amazing to me how the dark emotions can take over so easily.  We sorted and boxed endlessly, both Ron and I made visits to the local Walmart in the middle of the night seeking boxes from the third shift workers/unpackers.  Now I am not so sure what we are going to do with all of them as they get unpacked...what a mess!

 Our Bedroom became the general holding area for boxes packed in advance, it is amazing to me what we fit in closets thinking we should save!  Weeding out multiple junk drawers, electronics, was something I could only tackle one at a time...even then most of the time I would get distracted and would end up working in another totally different closet!  How thankful I am for the multiple donation trucks willing to stop by our house and pick up all our unwanted stuff.

The bathroom is in the middle of being redone...just in time for us to move out!  Thankfully our neighbors recommended a painter who seems up to the task-he already painted three rooms in the new house.  It is amazing to me how fast and efficient they work.  By the time I get set up I would need to either feed kids or drive kids somewhere!

For those of you who have not seen the computer room....this is clean, no extra computer towers/keyboard and most-no cables everywhere!

Slowly the front room also filled with boxes-almost ready to go.

Den, cleaned out and ready to go.

 Morning of moving-all linens off the beds last morning at the house for the kids...they didn't seem to care much.  I don't think James could believe it was finally happening.  He had been helping pack and clean for weeks all the time I talked about moving to the new house but we would always stay at the old house-something  that confused him.

 

The back yard looks sad and lonely without the tramp-it was still loaded with snow when we went to take it down.

 Moved on out.  Three guys and a truck.  I was not at the house for the initial start of the move and I am glad I wasn't...it was pretty harsh walking in and seeing it look empty/bare...dirty!

We had a big ice-storm at the time of moving...did I say none of our decision were correct!  We ended up moving two days later.  This was such a blessing.  I had time to move the kitchen and closets prior to the big day-giving me time to do a little organizing, giving me a little sanity on moving day, although the first meal eaten in the house was McDonalds and it was on the floor.

If you can believe our entire house fit into this truck.  It was pretty unnerving to see it pull away knowing it help everything that was in our house.  Even more so as it backed up the hill in front of our new house about tipping causing the workers to park in the street so things weren't so off kilter with the slope of the driveway.  They worked from 9am and finished up and with a light load of outdoor stuff around 6pm.
Amazingly the new house feels like home-the layout, although bigger is similar so furniture layout was pretty easy.  Both kids and animals are at ease.  How thankful I am that the house was move in ready and except for the first morning spent without electricity things have been fairly smooth.
 God truly watches over us!  How I should never doubt or for that matter rely on my human cognitive thinking.  Moving takes physical work but much more mental/emotional work.  Between relying on the Lord and working through things as husband and wife this move has not only given us a wonderful house to grow into but helped us strengthen our foundation in the Lord and as a family.  Who knew what the adventures, ups and downs of moving could bring!?