But as that verse I
read in Exodus 23 said “little by little…” and little by little things have
settled. Actually, in one big
whirlwind. It was as if God saw my
extreme stress and how it was affecting me physically and came and wiped it away.
My list of stresses was
·
Randy signing
the document
·
Finding a place
to live
·
Packing
In that order.
Well, since then almost
all have been wiped away. All but the
biggie.
Living arrangements:
I won’t be borrowing an
apple bin from the orchard to fill with straw to sleep in.
K. I wasn’t actually
that worried, but I am such a planner that I did have a mental plan of how we
would survive if we were homeless. :-/ This mind of mine drives me nuts. (Maybe I’ll write it down and share sometime…it
was quite creative I must say.)
I was telling a friend
at work about my living arrangements issue and he mentioned a friend who owned
a duplex..yadda yadda and so forth and within 24 hours I had a place to
stay.
We didn’t go see it
until the next week. I wanted the
children to see where we were going; to give them a peace of mind about our
future. The place is small in comparison
to our current home, but is so completely do-able! The layout of the duplex will give us much
more room than anticipated.
The landlord will live
right next door and I’ve known him almost for forever. He was friends with my brother in high school
and knows our family well. He loves kids
and I see him being a great role model to my kiddos.
Funny thing…he has the
same name (first AND last) as the man from church in CT who offered to help me
find a place to live once I move. So my
landlord in OH and CT might have the exact same name. I guess the name I write on the rent check
will be one change I won’t have to adapt to.
The packing?
Well, my goal is to
take a box to storage every night on my way home from dropping Riley off at the
park for football. I’ve managed to do it
about 2 times out of 8. I think I either
need to get on the ball or rethink my plan…
My mom came up with the
idea of me packing what I am going to take to the duplex and leaving everything
else that I am packing to storage to move to CT. Then she will come in with my sisters/aunts
and they will help pack up the rest.
I think between the
combo of me taking a box a night and my amazing family helping, I’ll be
perfectly fine.
So:
Place to live: check
Packing: check
The biggie still looms.
Randy signing the
document. In some ways the issue is
resolving and others it’s getting more complicated.
The women from the
title company, along with my realtor have been amazing in helping me with
this.
I believe they (we?)
are going to find him, but they are going to do the talking and suggested I not
even go along. That’s the huge positive.
The negative? Actually finding
him and convincing him to sign it.
He also has to produce a driver’s license to prove he is him. Not sure if he has that still…
I
just have to put all this in God’s hands.
He brought me a buyer, has had everything go through smoothly ~ even
when we weren’t sure it would go through.
Things are being approved days faster than expected. I just have to trust that this final thing
will go smoothly as well.
I’m looking forward to
moving. It’s a much smaller house and
life will be simplified drastically. We
will live there for a few months until the legal garbage is dealt with. This is a 2-step process (will write later
about it) and once step one is complete, depending on the time I will either
file step-2 here or wait until we are in CT.
Once I am settled, I
can concentrate on finishing school (have FOUR more classes…yippee!) and
finding a place to live in CT and a job.
This journey is far
from over, but the light at the end of the tunnel is no longer a flicker in the
dark but a steady beam.
We are almost there.
Little by little.
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