We have been waiting for this day for a long time...it's finally come...the day we move into our new home. It feels like it's been months and months since we've had a place that actually felt like home to us. Months since having a place of true refuge and rest.
Thank you Lord for providing a place for us!
First days in a new home are always filled with cleaning, unpacking, arranging, moving, etc. This first day was consumed by such things, however, it was different from all other times I've moved in the past. This move didn't consist of bringing all my furniture, frames, decorations, kitchen supplies, etc. and just putting them in their place. This move consisted of bringing the little we had to arrange, knowing we'd be getting the rest some time later. I wasn't able to have any of the things from my house in America sent to India, so I was starting from scratch. (Stinks that we couldn't have another wedding shower once we got here:)
One of the most fun things was going into the room that would be Elijah's and giving him his new walker. Like all parents, it blessed Neal and I to give it to him and watch him play and enjoy.
Most of the furniture that would fill our house had already been ordered. Neal and I decided we wanted to have everything in place to be delivered around the time we moved into our home. So, we'd selected couches, table, chairs, fabric, rugs, and curtains before moving. Two of the couches for our family room and all of our rugs had already been delivered, so I was thrilled to lay out a couple of the rugs over our marble floors so that Elijah had a nice place to crawl.
Our next project (after the kitchen was finished, our bed in place, and curtains up) was to put together Elijah's pieces of furniture (we only had one piece and his crib, we would get the second piece a couple of weeks later). I'd been excited and waiting for this since before he was born. Every mom wants to get the nursery for her new baby all ready and cute, and I was finally having my time to do that 9 months after Elijah was born. Neal was so faithful in helping me to get things ready, even when he wasn't the most thrilled to do so. Thank you God for my caring husband!
After working a while in our new place you're really hot. We only had one AC that could be turned on because of our transformer not been hooked up yet. We were told it would be all hooked up and ready by the 30th of May, so that's when we moved. It wasn't hooked up that day, so the guy that owns the place said he'd get the electrician to come and hook up power from his place to ours until the transformer was turned on. We thanked God because it was 10 at night and we were still without power. So, since we were sharing power we were only allowed to run one of our ACs. It was 110 degrees outside so you get quite hot working (we kept our bedroom door shut so that the cool air from the AC would keep at least one room cool). Praise the Lord, though, that we do have an AC in our bedroom!
With the heat we drank lots of water, Elijah as well. One of his favorite things to do is drink water from our cup. It's too cute!
Now, we wait for our furniture to arrive to finish everything else.
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