Moving In

In my greatest imagination I would have never guessed what this summer would bring our way. We certainly knew of the baby's arrival, but the package she would bring with her...so many gifts in the future yet to be unwrapped. With the confirming of downs syndrome, we realized our current housing situation would not be suitable for our family and for the many workers that would be visiting for therapy. Well, actually God decided that for us through circumstances. Looking back, it brings a little laughter but last week it wasn't so funny. Dear honey was taking down the front porch because it had begun to warp and boards were loose, making the porch unsafe. Once the porch had been taken down, the children tried out the stairs, running in and out. This was of course done with a resounding "close the door!" However, the door would not close. Little had we realized the floor joint had rotted out. When the porch came down, the wall tore away from the flooring leaving a small gap along the bottom of the door and down the side of the kitchen. The gap wrapped itself around the end of the mobile home and the window frames came out of their homes. Same day, new project. Honey was taking the window unit out of the kitchen to move it to the living room. The wall underneath the unit was so rotted it collapsed. Two days later, something under our washer broke and now water pours across the floor while washing. Our dryer stopped working around the same time requiring something heavy to hold the door closed. Wow! It became very evident it was time to move on. So after much prayer and counsel we began the search for "the home." My husband began the journey on his own and found "the one" that very day. He took us to see it and we all fell in love with it. Then the hard part...credit checks and pre-approval. After two days we were told it would not work for us so we continued the looking. There was nothing!!!! Then we simply took a stop at the mobile home community right around the corner from us. After spending a great deal of time talking with them, it turns out that we could give the original home a try. We ran several scenerios of numbers and everyone of them worked! So we gave it a try.....and....we were approved!!!!!!! Now we are frantically clearing our land and packing. We are waiting on the appraiser to come out and hopefully after that the home is ours. Yikes! That gives us about three weeks to pack up our home, move everything to storage, sell this mobile home, bring many loads of dirt in and spread that before the new home gets brought in. So another adventure ensues! And for those of you who know us well, our adventures are always huge! So please continue to pray for us as we prepare the next several weeks for this.