Well, it's been 6 months since we last had a place to call our own. We left Oregon thinking that within a few months we'd be settled in a new job, home and life. For whatever reason the Lord had other plans for us. We have put an offer on this home that has been accepted and are now living here as renters until the loans close. We're hoping this happens soon. It's a bit of a leap of faith to move in and become invested in a home that isn't "officially" ours yet, but it has made the most sense to do so, especially considering I start the third trimester tomorrow and am already quite sore from the move.
I feel like I've had a pause button on my life. We left Oregon, hit "pause," and only now are starting to live again. For me these last six months have been survival mode, just making it through one day at a time and praying we'll be able to get settled before the baby arrives. TJ's been grieving the loss of our Oregon friends and family pretty hard these months but I'm just starting. With the holidays coming it's harder because this year, while we'll celebrate with our biological families, we won't be celebrating with our adopted families. I've lived in several places now and it never gets easier to leave dear friends behind and start over. I wish it would, but then, if it did, maybe that would mean the relationships made were not as deep and strong as they should have been.
I thought it would be fun to share some photos of our new home. These are all "before" pictures. The outside of house has been painted now and we have lots of stuff on the inside...but before pictures are always nice to see! I'll try to update as we start to get settled in more. The big question on my mind today is, "where will all our cloths fit?" The first two homes we lived in had lots of bedroom closet space. This house has lots of closet space, just not all in the bedroom. :) I've been blessed with a lot of maternity cloths this pregnancy and am excited to get them put away somewhere so I can wear them! I now have more maternity cloths than regular ones. Isn't it funny we don't hand down our regular cloths when we're done with them? Of course, maybe we're not ever done with them!
The tornado siren is being tested right now...10 am Monday morning. Ethan is very concerned that the siren just goes and goes and never stops. :)
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| Upstairs: Ethan & Elsie's Room. It's a large room with a fun narrow closet. |
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| Upstairs: Bathroom; our home hasn't really been updated since the late 50's...but it's all in great condition! |
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| Upstairs: Hallway with two closets on the left and two rooms on the right. |
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| Upstairs: This is currently our box room, but in time it will become our guest room, craft room and "museum" as TJ likes to say (where we'll display some of our "please children don't destroy these" items.) |
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| Upstairs: Cedar closet. |
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| Upstairs: Landing at the top of the stairs. |
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| Downstairs: Hallway with built in storage |
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| Downstairs: Bathroom with shower tucked away out of sight of the photo. |
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| Downstairs: Kitchen...well, half the kitchen. Yes, that is carpet on the kitchen floor. No, we do not think carpet on a kitchen floor is a good idea. Yes, we have plans to change that! :) |
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| Downstairs: Dining Room |
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| Downstairs: Family Room/Music Room |
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| Basement: Built in pantry/canning storage. I'm excited to be settled and then clean out the basement. It has these really old wood beams in the ceiling...really old, really hard. We think if we ever wanted to finish the basement we'd have to have the floor dug down rather than the house lifted up. |
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| Ethan happy with daddy, sitting on the stairs. |
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Main entrance of the house for guests. Pretty good size porch too! That large window looks into our family room.
Ah! There were more photos here but for some reason they were cut off. I'll have to include them next time. :) |
