Has it really almost been two years?  It doesn't seem like that long.  We spent the first 9 months of 2013 selling our home, then the purchase of our new home met unexpected obstacles so we lived in JayJay, our Travel Trailer for 4 months in my parents driveway.  Finally, things worked out and we finalized our movers a small town east of Charlotte in January.

Last year's theme was transition.  This year's theme has been settling in.  Physically settling into our new space.  Everything about our new home is more spacious.  The yard, the house, the rooms within.  The only area that had deficit was our outdoor storage because the shed is about half what we had before.  I'm glad I had been decluttering, but we still ended up moving quite a bit of stuff that needed to go.  I decided once I identified this, that I didn't want these things to even come into our new house.  We craigslisted a bit, but most we donated, or gave away.   What was left fit nicely into our new home in about 2weeks.  I had a lot of help, and was motivated to get the boxes gone.  After a year of "moving" I was ready to be settled.

Then came settling into our routines, new pets, Rocky's new job, new town, new county, new friends, new co-op for homeschool, new church.  Everything has changed externally in our lives in less than 6 months, though we only moved about 30 minutes from where we lived before.

We were blessed after 9 months of searching to find the home has all of our needs and many of our wants.  It is both in the country and "in town" with sidewalks and in walking distance of the park, and  the post office.  If I had known that this was what I needed (which, I didn't until close to the end of our search), I still could not have picked out this property.  We definitely feel that it is a blessing from God that we have this home.

I want to record these times as we start a new adventure, they are blessings and should be shared.