As usual, this time of year has me reliving the past. 10 years. 10 years!! That just seems forever ago, and yet I can remember so much in so much detail that it takes my breath away. Such a difficult balance sometimes for me to remember, because forgetting isn't an option, and not getting lost in those memories. To look to the future. Or even living in today. Of course, time moves on no matter what, and boy do we have a lot coming up in our lives.
We have sold our house in Chandler and will be moving the first week of November to our new house in Gilbert (southeast side of Gilbert/Warner). Moving to a whole other city sounds like a big deal but it's really just 5 miles away from the current house. We've lived in this house a little over 12 years and, OMGosh, there is so much to pack! The first 5 years of our marriage, we lived in 4 different places, so we seemed to be always purging things. But 12 years in a house means that there were many times where things just got stuck in the attic or the shed. Yikes! We've gotten rid of some things, but since the new house is 1000 square feet bigger then what we have now, we're not getting rid of much. Gotta fill some of that space somehow. :)
A few people have asked me what prompted the move, and more specifically, what prompted the increase in size of the home since there is just the 3 of us. Well, it's mostly because we are hoping that sometime in the next year or so, we will be adding more people to our household. No babies are coming, at least not from a conventional way, and likely they won't be babies. In January, Brian and I will start classes that we hope will end in us adopting from the foster care system. We are open to adopting a sibling set, and in our minds that meant two, but from the moment we talked to Tynan about it, he's been praying for 3 more kids. When I asked him why 3, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Because we need more kids." Soooo, yeah. There's that. We will see what God has in store. We are trusting Him in all of this. We have seen His hand in so much of our lives, that we know that His plan will be perfect, no matter how crazy it seems to us at the time. It always is.
10 years ago, if you would have told me that we'd be where we are now, I would have said you were crazy. 10 years ago, I was selfishly thinking that Trevor would be our only child because being pregnant was just too hard on me. I think that's one of many things that loosing Trevor did for me. It showed me that however difficult, it's worth it. Kids are worth it. Tynan driving me nuts is worth it. Being able to be a Mom to kids whose birth mom can't Mom them, is going to be worth it. It's going to be hard, and often I think that I'm crazy for adding more craziness to our lives, but I know that God has brought us to this. That there are kids that, while in His perfect plan would be with their birth parents, in this imperfect world, the most perfect thing would be for them to be with us. I'm totally scared and totally excited.
Please be praying for us in all of this. Often, I find it difficult to pray coherently about what is going on in our lives. The logistics of moving, Tynan in a new school, and the adoption process. It can make my head spin, and I just find it so much easier to pray for others. Thankful for those around us that pray and support us, Thankful that the Spirit knows our prayers, and can make sense of our nonsense and stumbling over words, because boy do I stumble!
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