Much Ado about Moving

Well, it's been a saga.  A house searching, deposit saving, potential landlord meeting SAGA.  But I finally found exactly what we need.  Jehovah God has provided gloriously.  It's a small space but with organization it will work well.  It has a storage area of nice size that comes with it and it is right on the river. As Joe puts it:  "Whoo hoo!  Fishing out the front door!"  Indeed, babe, fishing out the front door.

There were two larger, nicer places that I really truly wanted to live in. But the rent would have been a stretch and we would have had to change congregations.  While I was trying to convince myself that these were survivable circumstances, it just wasn't working.  Nothing was working.  The commute into Anchorage got further and further the more I looked or the landlord just didn't give off a good impression or there wasn't space to park the trailer or this or that.  You get the picture.

Then out of seemingly nowhere this little apartment opened up just when I had given up.  Plenty of storage and a place to park the trailer.  Only one bedroom instead of two but more than affordable at $750 including all utilities.  Incredible find for here in the Mat-Su valley.  And it is only two miles from where we are at now.  So the commute stays basically the same for Joe when he gets home if he works in Anchorage, we have fixed expenses to budget for which means we can really budget extra in for bills and we don't have to change congregations   I'd say that's a triple win for the home team.

While it is smaller than I've lived in in quite some time, possibly ever, I am looking forward to the possibilities and the easy housework and the organizing ahead of me.  I told a friend: "If it only had 120 more square feet..."  She said "That just means you have to get rid of 120 square feet worth of stuff."  Good call, Friend!  That's looking at the glass half full.

I don't have much to get rid of, but well I'm willing to look into it.  For now, I am just so thankful that I move into a new home soon and that the trauma of the sell of the rental we are currently living in is soon to be behind me.  I will not elaborate further but suffice it to say that it has been a very rough month on me.

But it's all over now and we have been provided for in abundance.  It's amazing how things just open up and work when Jehovah's blessing is there.  It continues to boggle the mind.

For now, I have my happy thoughts focused ahead on moving and getting settled.  Yay!