In other news...

Sorry it's been a little bit since I posted.  I made a commitment to myself that I would post two days a week to keep myself consistent and develop a habit... and then we moved.  As you probably know, moving throws a wrench in pretty much everything normal you have going on in life.  So a little catching up is in order.

We have been looking, for the past 4 months or so, for a house to purchase.  We stumbled upon a great realtor who has just been wonderful to work with.  We started out putting an offer in on a short-sale house in April.  It seemed like a great place for us at the time but as we got further into the process, we realized that it was more than we wanted to or really could handle at this stage in our lives, with so many other changes coming quickly.  Thankfully we had written into the contract that it had to close by June 1 or we were able to get out without any penalty.  Once we backed out of that contract, we found another home, this time a condo, that we also thought would be great, we tried to negotiate with the seller but he was a little unrealistic with what he wanted to get for the place and would not compromise on the asking price so we ended that.  About 6 days before my due date, we stumbled upon this wonderful condo a little further outside of town than we had thought we wanted.  It has 400 sq/ft more space than the first condo, comes with a garage, has a more open floor plan and was closer to the price we wanted to pay.  We negotiated a price with the sellers that we were both happy with and began the process of getting the loan approved and closing.  This is where things have gotten a little dicey.  We signed the contract the weekend before Alythia was born, and we are still fighting with the bank to complete the loan process.  In the meantime, we had a baby, we sadly did not come home to the beautiful nursery I had envisioned and hoped she would; though Rob reminds me regularly that she with neither remember, nor really care as the nursery design is mostly for me.  We had to move out of our apartment because we were paying an exorbitant amount in rent to be there month-to-month, and they had another family who was slated to move in the last week of July.  As the days got closer to having to be out, it looked more and more like we were going to be homeless, as the condo still had no closing date.  We petitioned the sellers to allow us to gain early occupancy of the condo and essentially sign a short-term rental lease with them until the contract closes.  We were blessed with a great group of guys who helped us move on Saturday of last week and are at least in the condo for now.  The unstable part is we don't know if they will give us the loan, for some various reasons outside of our control, so we might need to move again and thus are living out of boxes and unpacking as little as humanly possible in case we need to move quickly again.

So here we are, in what we hope to be our new home very soon.  We thankfully are not homeless and though things are uncertain at the moment, we know that God will continue to be faithful in providing for us, both physically and spiritually.  He is teaching us daily to trust him and believe him when he says he will take care of us, not only when we see how, but also when we can't and the situation seems impossible.  God is faithful and his timing is absolutely perfect.  We continue to pray that we will hear good news soon but we know that if is not the news we want to hear, it will still be good because it is what he has for us and he will make a way.  God is good, all the time.

~Becky