settling in and catching up (part 2)

I don't know if I've had too much coffee this morning, or what, but I have an underlying sense of excitement flowing through my veins. Things are starting to take shape around our home, and the feeling of the impending fall semester with all of it's adventures and surprises is beginning to seem like a reality. It's exciting. This morning the ministry leadership team is meeting at our kitchen table, I made them all a big breakfast and then scooted up here to write and talk to my dear Bethany friend (happy birthday!) on the phone. Hubs pointed out a couple nights ago when he came in from edging the yard to the supper I was finishing up that for the first time in our married life we're really starting to fall into a pattern. Normal married life stuff is beginning to fall into place. I mean, we have a house! And the house part is where I left off yesterday...

After we rolled into town late Sunday afternoon, we were welcomed at Hubs' new boss' home with warm hugs and dinner. We slept hard that night, and woke to meet the real estate agent at our new house for the walk-through, then closing, then loading our suitcases and borrowing an air mattress from the boss and driving back to our house and then... deep breaths. We own a home. We walked around and looked at our living room, our kitchen, our three tiny bedrooms and one bathroom. It was our house!

We spent that week cleaning and sleeping on an air mattress, waiting for our furniture to arrive. Hubs flew out for five days training the following Sunday, still no furniture or boxes. Mom flew in that same day to stay with me and help me unpack the yet phantom boxes. Finally, on Monday the truck arrived! Again with the big truck. Again with the wouldn't fit down the street. Again with the hiring of a shuttle truck and having to transfer everything over and then to unload it.

But finally, at the end of the day on Monday, we had furniture! Beds, chairs, dishes, pots, and pans! It was good to see our own stuff again, having our furniture and things in our new house really made it start feeling like our home. Mom and I worked hard all week, unpacking the kitchen and painting over the lime green paint that was in Hubs' third floor office.

By the time Hubs came home last Friday, we were even more settled in and starting to feel really at home in this little town.