Today we moved our 5th wheel into our church parking lot. We found out that there is an RV hookup there, so we asked permission to park our new home there for the next 6 months until we move up to Kentucky.... and our pastor and elders said yes! We go to the most awesomest church ever, people. Really. I love our church.
This whole situation is exciting for many reasons.... one, we will be close by to devote lots of time and energy to our church farm & garden project. It is going splendidly so far, and we want to make sure that when we move everything is running smoothly so that someone else can take over and keep providing organic local healthy food for the church, and eventually the local community. Two, we will be able to save a lot of money by renting out our house to pay the mortgage instead of paying it out of pocket every month (we decided not to sell right now cause the market's not so good and there are like 6 houses for sale in our neighborhood already). Three, we will be learning how to live in a 5th wheel while Daniel still has a steady income. We will also have the encouragement of many loving friends who think we're cool for doing not-so-normal things (like living in your church's parking lot in a 25-year-old travel trailer). So we're really excited about the whole situation. I think it works out well for our church too, because we will be there almost all the time to help out with whatever comes up.
Anyway, the plan is that we will get our new home (it needs a cool name... I'm open to suggestions) squeaky-clean this week and move in this weekend. Then we will spend the next couple weeks packing up our house, having a yard sale, and getting it rent-ready. Hopefully by September we will be fully transitioned out of our house-house and into our house-on-wheels. We're going to be so busy. But a good busy. I'm really excited about our new lifestyle. I think we'll spend a lot more time outside.
In other news, we had a fun birthday party for Ezekiel on Saturday. He enjoyed eating his (super healthy) cupcake. It was too cute. He was very serious about it. Actually he seems to be very serious about many things in a cute, kid-like way. He's growing so big. I can tell by the look on his face that there are things he wants to be able to say, but he can't do it yet. I'm looking forward to when he can talk, but I'm also loving the stage he's in right now. He's such a wonderful blessing, I love him so much!
Goodnight!
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I saw Ezekeil's pictures up on thillysings's blog--too cute!
Ok, the first thing I thought of was the old tow-truck from the Cars movie--Mater. If you haven't seen it, it's cute, as is everything by Pixar. Other than that, I'm not good at nicknames!
And I heard back from Jessamine Christian Healthcare--they wanted to know my grad date. That was some time early last week and I haven't heard back from them since.....we'll see...
OH! And I think that you all have a WONDERFUL idea! I'll be praying that the market turns around for you all an you'll be able to sell your house at a better price later!
What are you going to do with all your stuff? Are you going to put it in storage or are you getting rid of a lot of it? Dan and I are trying to downsize, too. You'd think it'd be easy with a one-bedroom apartment....
yeah, we're going to have a big garage sale to get rid of furniture and other stuff. Lots of things we're keeping in storage though, like books and stuff that may be useful for farm life next year. How do we accumulate so much stuff???!
Keep me updated about the job... i hope you get it!!
Thank you for stopping by my blog---and leaving a comment! You can run...and running while pushing a stroller is even better (arm workout too).
I cant wait to read more about your new lifestyle in the rv and Gods adventures for your family.
Yeah! Moving on up :). Because we want to live in downtown Portland and houses there are expensive and small, I have been in the process of getting rid of loads of stuff. We are trying to clean out our third bedroom as we probably won't have a third bedroom in Portland. I'm having a garage sale at the end of the month! The kids had been sleeping on the floor for months just for fun so I came to the conclusion that keeping beds that they don't sleep in is silly. So no we just have crib mattresses that the pull out every night to sleep on. So their room is a playroom by day and a sleeping room by night!
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