Close the Distance

We are coming to an end of our summer of moving   The house is finished!  Well sort of.  I can say that we are so grateful to Cornerstone University and to Allison’s parents for welcoming us first in the campus apartments for two months, then to Allison’s parents who welcomed us into their home for what has become two months.  It is uncommon to find people of such kindness and hospitality these days.  I don’t know how Allison and I could have survived the past two months without Bob & Martha’s hospitality.  Given all that they have done for us, one continues to wonder how we could ever repay them…I know they would say there is no need…but one still wonders.

Well, we took possession of our new home on Thursday of last week and have been moving and building ever since.  It has been fairly chaotic, but manageable I guess.  We have the walls framed for Josh’s bedroom in the basement, we had a water softener installed and have had to have the air conditioning fixed all since moving in.  Oh, and we have been unloading the PODS that we had stored all our stuff in before.  I hope to have the stove installed tonight so we can start cooking and connect the water line to our refrigerator.  Oh, all the details, the list of things we need to do.  I doubt we will feel settled till next year sometime.  We still don’t have closets.  I guess this is what happens when we try to save a few bucks here and there by not having professional installation of some of these things.  The house is beautiful…it will be wonderful – actually it is wonderful, but I can’t wait until we can get to the place where we will actually be able to enjoy it.