We Survived the Move
lauren on Aug 04 2008 at 9:27 am | Filed under: a thing called life
I had high hopes that when I wrote my first post with information about our move from Wisconsin to Texas it would be filled adjectives that described pure joy and excitement over our new home. Instead you may notice a few synonyms to the word “confused.”
I should probably start with the things that don’t befuddle me though, like the Texas weather for instance. It is just about 100 degrees outside as I type this and I’m one of the few people around who is truly loving it. Hot, sunny and almost no humidity, um yeah… I can do this.
The sky at night is simply amazing. The stars are even bigger in Texas.
I haven’t seen a mosquito in 6 weeks and I hear they are the worst they’ve been in decades back in my old stomping grounds in Wisconsin. I’m not missing those little demons.
And the food. I’m not even talking about all the lovely Mexican and TexMex restaurants. The grocery stores carry different brands AND varieties of foods than those I’m used to seeing. I love all the new choices. The meats are so much cheaper that I barely notice the higher prices on the milk and cheese. Brisket has replaced cheese curds as my favorite food and I don’t feel like a traitor because I just use my budget as the excuse.
I like Texas.
I just thought that after being here for 6 weeks already we would have at least figured out where we would like to live in this ginormous, “it’s like a whole other country” state. We’ve put over 5000 miles on our van since we arrived. We have seen every.single.street. in central Texas. We are completely lost when it comes to deciding where to settle down.
God has not made anything clear to us yet and so we sit and wait. We want His best for this family. We do not want to run ahead of Him. We are staying with friends who seem to be putting up with us quite well, still we hate to be a burden. We want to move out and give them their house back. We want to start our new life, find a church home, make friends.
We pray that the Lord makes things clear to us very soon. Hubby and I have such different desires in a home that only the Lord will be able to lead us to the one that will be a good fit for our family. Even harder to deal with is the fact that banks have tightened up since our last pre-approval. We’ve heard we might need to hand over a few month’s worth of paycheck stubs from hub’s new job before we get final approval. We’ve got someone working on this though and we’re waiting to hear what he finds out. If this is the case, we may have to rent for a while first. I’d be lying if I said that the thought of renting ONE.MORE.TIME! didn’t bother me. But we’ll do what we have to do. Regardless, we’d still have to settle on a specific school district because it doesn’t look as though we’ll be able to afford a private school this time around. Kyle has two years left and we’re determined to allow him to finish out those two high school years at one school.
Time is running out, school will start in a few weeks and we need to hear from the Lord soon. [said in a bit of a panicky voice]
But…
God is good! He’s got this all under control and He can be trusted.
