We rented the house! YES! My prayer was to find a family to stay in our home who will feel as blessed by our home as we have. I think and hope my prayer was answered! The home will be rented to a visiting professor and his family of 8 children! They are in town for one semester only and they said they had struggled to find something they liked, in their budget, big enough, and for so short a time. (A tall order to be sure. We were similarly blessed by a furnished condo for 6 months when we sold our first home - prior to finding it, the shortest lease I could find was 1 year, and moving into an unfurnished temporary place would have been a double move for our stuff.) Our home fit the bill for this family! I hope our home will be a blessing for them, but it also will be so nice for us not to worry about the house being empty, OR worry about needing to empty it out to rent it.
Yes, we are leaving it furnished, saving our renters from needing to haul a bunch of stuff for a short stay. But as we de-junk, pack away, and repair things, we've grown all the fonder of our place! AND Q has grown all the manlier in his abilities - fixing faucets, light fixtures, electrical outlets - I'm telling you he is a GUY and proud of it! So even with the mountain of work we've put into prepping for renters, and the mountain of work still to go, it feels like a blessing to get a better house out of the deal (and we'll pray it's still a better house upon our return!).
Here's a taste of what we're leaving... sniff!
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| A spacious king-size bed! |
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| The front room with piano! But this family has more kids than we do who play! |
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| A fire place to enjoy during the gorgeous fall weather! |
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| Large kitchen and dining area with 180 degree sunsets in the fall! |
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| A play room for the kids SEPARATE from adult space for quiet chatting! |
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Homeschool supplies (not to mention our HS friends), a barbie mansion -
I mean how will we LIVE without the Barbie mansion!?! |
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| A room for the boys! |
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| A room for the girls! |
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| AND a room for our friends! |
Q just walked in and said in the quiet peace and beauty of where we live, he wonders sometimes why we are going. Of course, we both know why, but I know exactly what he means. Home is a hard place to leave. I just feel blessed we get to come home to it again!
You have done a lovely job cleaning everything out - such a big job and very inspiring! How you have done it all, is simply amazing. You have a lovely home, and a lovely family to match. Oh, our family will miss yours so much, and we will love reading about your adventures!
ReplyDeleteThe house looks beautiful!!! just lovely!
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