Being an adult to me, means that if I want to wear Micky Mouse ears all day and in public, I will. I will not apologize. I will also be thankful for a husband that loves this and doesn’t think I’m silly. 🙂
I know our move took a lot of people by surprise, including us. We’ve been thinking about moving out for about six months, we’ve had God impress upon our hearts to move, but we kept finding excuses. After a conversation with dear friends, we knew it was time. A mere two days after our conversation, we visited an apartment complex that had really stood out in our search. There was an apartment available, we filled out the application, were approved and able to move in 3 days later. Conversation on Sunday, apartment visit on Tuesday, move in on Friday. Friends, it still surprises us that we’re here! So, to all of those who were surprised by our move, sorry for not telling each of you personally, but it’s been a whirlwind of a week! lol, for practical reasons, I figured a Facebook post and a blog post would let most everyone know. Oh the impersonal nature of our current age!
Another thing we’ve been thinking about recently is “living light” and being sojourners in this world. We believe that this world is not our home, just a place to journey through to get to our ultimate home with Christ. To that end, we’ve been thinking that we don’t want to have a lot of possessions. While we were talking about moving over the months, I mentioned that maybe we should try to only have things that fit in my Honda Civic. I think that we’ve done pretty well at this new lifestyle. To be honest, we are SO excited about it! Let me give you a tour and show you what this looks like for us.
First, we have a low table with cushions for our dinner table. We tested it out last night!
After dinner, we cleaned up and set up the laptop and curled up to watch a movie.
I am CRAZY about my new kitchen! Everything that we have fits (I even took my 7 boxes of kitchen down to 5)!
This corner in the kitchen is empty and I have no idea what to put here…if I even will. Any thoughts?
Having a washer and dryer in the apartment has been very convenient too. What we do is put our dirty clothes directly into the washer, saving us from needed a hamper.
My bathroom that isn’t Batman themed (yet) but has my box of Frozen kleenex.
Here’s where we will probably lose most of you. We’re sleeping on the floor. We don’t have a bed, just a bunch of blankets. It has been a great night sleep, I’m not going to lie!
The plan for the living room (when we have guests) is a ton of beanbag chairs and camping chairs. Easy to move and super comfy.
We want our home to be a place of comfort, rest and a whole lot of reading.
Our balcony is most definitely our favorite part of the apartment. We have spent almost every evening sitting outside.
I mean, look at this view!
What does that look like for us? Eating cheesecake out of the pan, of course!
Two and a half years ago, we moved out of our first home together and moved in my family. What followed was a wonderful season of growth, getting to know my family, growing closer to Christ than we have ever been in our personal lives and in our marriage. I am so thankful for the generosity of my family letting us, well, be a part of the family.
Yesterday, we moved out. There were a number of reasons for this, one of them was that we cut Bret’s commute from 45-60 minutes down to 12. Since the work I do can be from most anywhere, it didn’t matter where we lived. However, the biggest reason we moved is that Bret felt God was calling us to move out because of issues in his heart. He admits that he put off moving out because it was cheaper to live at my parents and because of enjoying the growth in his relationships with my family. But God continued to put on our hearts to move out. So at this time, while we’re not sure where all the money will come from and where God will lead us, we’re excited and having faith to see what He has for us, and the growth that will occur during this next part of our journey. Especially in Bret’s heart.
* Note – Bret was dictating this to me. 🙂
I saw this awesome Batman bathroom set today and I seriously almost bought it. But in an effort to save money, I settled for a Frozen box of kleenex from the dollar store. 🙂
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