Today is December 23, 2010. I am home from work for a few days. The trees are decorated, the cookies are baked, presents are wrapped and when Hannah gets up we will open door 23 in our Advent calendar. Besides the wonderful, ordinary details of Christmas preparations, today is also our first anniversary in our new home. One year ago today all of our ducks finally got in a row, we closed on our house, andread more…
And now, the rest of the story … So, my husband unloaded all of our belongings into half of the garage of the house we were going to move into (the penalties for returning a rental truck late are astronomical!), I started my new job and we lived in a motel room for about 10 days. Finally, we started moving into the house. It was a relief, but so much work for my husband as muchread more…
One year ago today, I announced to you that the economy had given a fatal blow to my husband’s construction business and that I was looking for a job to provide enough for my family so that Allan could stay home and take care of Hannah and become the homeschooling parent. That was the first step on the road that would lead us home. After several months and hundreds of resumes submitted across the country, Iread more…
