A Summer of Change - Our Moving Journey Begins

The story of our decision to move goes back several months. Living next door to our daughter and son-in-law and the grandkids was a wonderful experience, but we really were getting tired of paying rent. And we were conscious of the fact that we were growing older and would want to eventually retire in a home of our own! Couple that with the fact that our daughter's children were growing older and bigger and their house would not much longer accommodate growing children.

And so my dear hubby and I had a conversation regarding the future. What did we want to do if and when our "neighbors" moved into a bigger house? Did we want to continue to rent? After all living next door to our daughter and family was the draw to live in that particular house.

At the same time I had been following a friend's blog of her journey in moving to State College and all that entailed. I read how in spring they were preparing their house for sale and they had a prospective buyer. I didn't think anymore about it. But then in May, I read a post in which she again stated she was cleaning the house to get it ready to sell. But wait - I thought they already had a buyer.

On a whim, I decided to send her an email. That little email set off a whole chain of events. She sent me an email and invited us to come and see the house, so we did. We immediately fell in love with the location and the house itself. But we weren't ready to make a decision. Elvin's mother was rapidly declining in health and we needed to make some decisions regarding her care. So we told our friends to go ahead and put the house on the market if that is what they were ready to do. In the meantime, we would pray about it. But our friends had been praying too and they called us with the offer to wait a couple weeks to give us some time. Wow! We could both feel the Lord at work in our decisions. God was already directing our steps and as we continued to pray, we knew this was the house for us! And so our "journey" to a new home began.
Here is a view of our house at this beautiful time of the year!