It's ours!

We finally closed on our house on the 28th! I started a blog about the house, called "Our Irish Manor". We've taken the weekend to relax and that proved to be necessary since by Sunday morning, everyone was sick! It started with one boy and moved on to dad and then even I was feeling queasy by the late afternoon. Today, I am feeling back in the game and have spent most of the afternoon working in the yard at the house we have been renting. We've been here for 5 and 1/2 years! I know that it will be difficult to leave when it comes time, but its definitely exciting to know that we won't be tripping over each other or our things in the new house. The idea that it is ours trumps any pangs I have about leaving behind this home for another!

I want to share our list that we made before we started shopping for a house. We had looked around at houses for a month or so and I could see that we were going to have a lot of conflict when it came time to get serious. So we made a list! Let me tell you, this is not a "name it and claim it" kind of thing. That wasn't the idea. We wanted to have a clear idea of what it is that we were looking for before we started arguing about houses and we wanted to honor God by trusting that He already had a house picked out for us, we just needed to be patient and let Him show it to us. We were blown away! The very next day after we made our list, our house was on the multiple listing site! Was it there before and we just hadn't noticed? Or was it reposted, at a lower price, just for us? We don't know, but it fit all the things on our list and even the ones that we didn't put down because we figured we could "work on that later" or they were already a must and didn't require further discussion between us!

You can see that I added two things at the bottom of the list in a different color ink. That is because they were added the following day, after I realized there were a couple more things that I felt were important for me, as far as location. The really funny bit, where I know that God must have a sense of humor, is that there is a man-made lake across the street from us (the swimming?) and we are just up the street from a creek that flows into the Kenai River (the fishing!). Isn't that neat?! God is so good and His provision exceeds anything that we could ask for!

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