Thursday, June 18, 2009

Chaos at the House on the Hill

I know I am slow to compose another post on my blog. Krissa has many of the details on their blog.
First we got this incredible offer on our property and would have to demo the house plus all (junk) stuff not natural to the property removed.
Krissa, Jeff, and their children were coming to help, well mainly the adults. They left their house in North Carolina staged and for sale. Moving here , the middle of no where.
Well when things are too good to be true, they probably are. April 13th the whole deal fell and we moved on( maybe that is not quite the right words) with mixed feelings. So here we are and life just gets better in spite of it!
It is so hard to see sometimes the blessing when it is disguised as a trial, even though things have not gone quite as planned. Life is still good !
Jesse ( who just turned 9) and Larissa 6 got to go to school with grandma, nothing could be better. I was able to influence who they got for teachers, and it was a wonderful, exciting, and eventful experience. They loved being at Mill Pond with me, they enjoyed the whole experience.
As Krissa predicted everything happened at once. Their house sold in North Carolina, Jeff got a phone interview Thursday before Krissa left for North Carolina Saturday to organize the move of all their furniture and so forth. Jeff got another request for an interview, both in the Tri-Cities area where they want to live. So he is in the Tri- Cities for an interview maybe two interviews.
Okay there is a glitch which is described on their blog, Jeff cracked his wrist bone, and has a cast for 4 weeks. So that has been challenging for him but we have loved all his help on making our house more attractive, comfortable, and safe. The deck, which took its toll on his left wrist is to blame for the unfortunate accident, is still under construction.
Before the accident, Jeff has installed a door bell( it plays 40 different tunes), an over head light in our bedroom, hooked up the exhaust fan in the kitchen, framed out the our view windows, put up window treatments in three of the four bedrooms, sealed under the eaves and around the windows, repaired major water damage in the small bedroom next to ours( sheet rocked the ceiling and walls), framed the stair way and arch way to the hall. I know it seems like I go on and on, but I have bragging rights and I am exercising them ! Oops I almost forgot he put a roof over Roy's addition to the shop.
In spite the disappointments, life and the Lord never cease to amaze me !