Mulberry Road

Here we are!  We're home owners again!  This is our cute little house.   There is work to be done, but for now, we have a handicap ramp at our front porch... shutters that need painting, screen doors that need to go, etc...  I am learning to slow down and let the stuff wait.  We can't do it all at once.  Anyway...

We had 10 inches of snow the week before last.  The people down here are very apologetic.
 "It's never this cold here!"  "We never get snow like this!"

This is our barn. It is to the far right of our house, actually closer to the neighboring house, than ours.  We're going to dismantle it and rebuild it closer to our house and use it as our chicken coop.  It'll have this same shape, but be smaller and have a loft for storage.   

I've gotten out a few times in the morning to capture the sunrise.  It's beautiful and we see the sun rise behind our house.  It shines right into our bedroom in the morning.  I love it! 

 We ordered our bees and our chickens.  They'll be arriving in March!  We have a lot to do to get this place prepared for the spring, but we're so excited!  This is what we've been waiting for!

We're not as isolated as we thought we'd be, either! So that's a plus!  God has been so good!  We are already connected to a church down here.  The kids are enjoying youth activities, we're enjoying our brothers and sisters who have a heart for the Lord and are just overflowing with excitement about what God is doing in this area!  We went to "house church" last night.  Most of us would call it "small group".  It was basically 6ish couples and we prayed and shared and sang together.  It was lovely.  We have met so many people down here who say that they were praying for us.  We're an answer to prayer.  God was orchestrating this entire move while I was crying about stretched out skinny jeans and not being able to have all my stuff.  From the very beginning of this move I said "He is faithful."  "He's never failed us." and there I was crying because I couldn't see what He was preparing for us.  H.Y.P.O.C.R.I.T.E.  Y'all.  He knew what we needed, what these people down here needed and when it would all work out for His glory.  And I cried.  (Shaking my head.)  

He is good.  All the time.  I'll post more again soon, but I'm about to head out the door to meet a new friend for coffee!  A new homeschooling mom friend who has been praying for a homeschooling mom friend of her own.  Y'all!  (tears in my eyes...goodness-His goodness...all the time!)