Friday, February 9, 2018

aroostook county

Quite a drive. It was cold. There was still a lot of snow. It was the county.  It was winter. I kept all kinds of thoughts to myself. I really didn't want to be going. I kept saying to myself that "it will be worth it if this is where God wants us".
The further North we went the more snow there was. There was no traffic that we met on the highway. The temperatures got colder too.

Arrival at the farm with the white house. The driveway was bearly plowed, and we had to carefully climb up a rather large snow bank to get into the front door. The house was very nice. The kitchen was huge. As I said I do like to cook.  The kids picked out what bed room they would like to have. 2 bathrooms. The land was flat and open. Nice view.We chatted with the realtor and got the disclosures and all that fun stuff. More looking around and seeing how we could make the house work. Not really all that hard. A few things could be changed around and fixing up a room and it would be bigger. Totally doable.
On the very long ride home we weren't really talkative. So much over load and we were all tired.
Over the next few weeks we talked things over and decided to make an offer on the farm. We told OV about it and they said yes that it was a doable pickup. We made an offer.
We told the kids. They cried.
We told Matthew's mom, she cried.
We told my mom, she cried.
Sigh.
Why if this was it was everyone we loved crying? Doubt creeps in. We move forward with it.
 But things seemed to be falling into place. Maybe this was it. The decision was made to go. If this was the place then it would be a good thing for all of us. 
Moving to a place with no family, no friends, and no church family. Such a huge deal. For us anyways. This decision was not made lightly at all.
We got a counter offer.
We were working with the realtor and the farm owners were in Florida. So this all took some time to work out.
We had some more questions about the farm and got answers and then again counter offered. Had more paper work drawn up...

Our youngest daughter was going to be turning 10 soon. She was all excited about that. Then she came down with a cold of sorts...

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