Moving day.

It is moving day!!! It is not the best time of the year to move since is the end of January. It feels chilly but the skies are blue and it seems like the sun is smiling at us! I sure am smiling! I feel at peace even though I am not sure what is ahead of us.
Finally the truck is packed with all our possessions. We start our hour and half trip to our new home. We are so blessed with a friend who drives up to help us or it would just be me and Mike moving all our stuff. We finally arrive at a land with beautiful mountain views. As we drive in the 1 mile driveway, we see the horses running freely in a pasture nearby. Kids are so excited and so am I.

We are able to fit half of our stuff in the trailer. Our friend has to leave back to Charlotte because it is getting dark. The next day move the rest of the stuff into a storage place nearby.
For two weeks we enjoy our "home". We are living off boxes but I don't care. I know God has the perfect house for us to rent. I continue to stalk the internet looking to see if a house becomes available but nothing...I start getting discouraged. But God reminds me everyday by his wonderful creation that He is in control. If He created all this around me how can I doubt his power?

And once again God shows me His power. While checking my junk email I use for craigslist I notice a post "House for Rent". I almost deleted but I decide to check. Its from a lady who had a house for rent back in December. The day we were coming to check it out she had called me and told me it was no longer available. But now the email says " Have you found a place to rent?". I reply and say "No. Is your home available?" "YES" she emails back! Praise God!!! This is a home in 3 acres surrounded by woods. House is clean (or so I thought!!!) and cheaper than what we had planned to pay!!! God is good all the time!!!

Where is our house?

When can you start your new job? It had to be soon... we could not wait too long. A decision had to be made that day so Mike told them he could start in 6 weeks which would be February 6, 2013. We had six weeks to find a place to rent, decide what to do with our house and pack all our belongings.
We were ready, so ready to move. Each day that went by I could feel the country quietness getting closer and closer, however I was worried. Three different realtors came by and they had bad news, it simply wasn't a good time to sell. We would not be able to sell the house. We also had another problem, a much worse problem. After weeks of searching we could not find a place to rent in Rutherfordton. We had a budget and we needed to stick to it. None of the houses we looked seemed to fit what we were looking for. Lake Lure homes looked beautiful but it cost too much. The homes we could afford were infested with bugs or had dirty kitchens and bathrooms. I just could not understand why things were not falling into place like they should but once again I knew the Lord would make a way for us.
We decided to rent our house till the real estate market got better. We quickly found a renter for our home. We had 2 weeks left till move day and we still had no house in Rutherfordton. At this point we were going to be homeless or Mike would have to drive an hour and 45 minutes twice a day. That just wasn't an option! Here I was trying to figure a way but God already had it figured out!
One day during a church meeting we met some friends we hadn't seen in a while. Mike was quick to tell them we were moving to Rutherfordton. They could not believe it! They told us they were building a house in Forest City, Rutherfordton neighbor town and they knew someone from church who owned a large piece a land with an empty trailer. They were sure we could stay there till we found a place. I had hope again...

Trust in the Lord

Our move was sudden. The desire to move had been burning within our hearts for quite sometime. We knew the city was not the place to raise our three small children. Everyday as I drove my son to school I became more and more convinced that we had to do something... traffic lights, honks, billboards and traffic jam made my mind foggy. After 1 hour roundtrip we finally made it to our "cookie cutter" neighborhood. The kids begged to play outside. How could they? I needed to cook dinner and they simply could not go outside by themselves. It was not safe.
The following year I decided to homeschool. I did not feel like it was fair for the girls to spend so much time in the car everyday while driving their older brother to school. We were spending less time in the car but they still were not free to roam free like little lambs in the hillside. They just needed constant entertainment and it seemed like it was mostly artificial entertainment like Monkey Joes, Chucky Cheese, etc...

As we sat down and thought about our options, we simply felt defeated. We had bought our house 3 years ago and because of the economic depression, it just did not seem like a good time to move. No way we could sell our home. Our desire to move became dormant till one day we decided to make a trip to Chimney Rock.
It was October and we packed our car ready for an adventure. Our family loves to hike so we were so happy to go to the mountains. As we drove and got closer we were so impressed by the beautiful countryside. Driving through a small town called Rutherfordton we knew this was the place for our family. God had picked this town for us to move. We were not sure how but He would make a way. We claimed God promise that He will give us the desires of our hearts when we take delight in the Lord (Psalm 37:4).


That week Michael my husband looked up the local hospital and applied for a ER nurse position. They called him for a interview a couple weeks later. Mike was nervous but we were just trusting the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind. Our family drove to Rutherfordton that day. I dropped Michael off at the hospital and took the kids to the cutest children's museum in town called Kidsenses and waited... two hours went by. It sure seemed like a long interview. Finally Mike called me to pick him up and he seemed very content. He already had a sheet of paper with all kinds of info for rental homes... wait a minute I said!!! Slow down! Did they hire you? Not yet, he said. Fifteen minutes later the hospital called and said they wanted to hire him!! Oh and when can you start?