Our New Home!

I moved on Friday into the house Rob and I will live in once we're married so I wanted to show pictures of it to all of you. It's the cutest little place, not very big, but perfect for us. We're just on the edge of town, about 5 minutes from campus so there's definitely less of a college atmosphere out here.

I cannot even begin to describe to you how good and strange at the same time it is to have a place to call ours. It's good because for the past year and a half, probably since Ashley graduated early and moved out to get married and I moved in with other friends before I graduated, I haven't felt like I've had a home. Pennsylvania and my parents home where I grew up wasn't home anymore, heck, I have an Indiana license plate now, but the three places I lived with other girls never felt like home either. It's a very strange, detached feeling to have a house, but not a HOME. In a small way it gave me great sympathy for those who are truly homeless.

But now, I have a place to call HOME. I don't think it will fully feel like home until Rob and I are married and living here together, but for now it's good. It's funny because I've never moved into a place where I had to do things like figure out which drawer the silverware should go in. It's like a clean slate of decorating and literally "setting up house."

The house itself is owned by missionaries who are working with YWAM in Malaysia. This is their home, but they rent it out to people while they live overseas. We are the fourth newly married couple to live here so we feel a kinship and like it is a house just for us. The house is very old and feels like whoever built it just started tacking on rooms so the layout is weird. But it's full of character (complete with sloping floors), a yellow kitchen which I love, (I always wanted to live in a house with a yellow kitchen because they feel so friendly and welcoming), a compost pile (yes for being environmentally friendly!) and lots of flower beds. We have very little furniture, basically a kitchen table and chairs, my little twin bed, a dresser, an armchair, a few bookcases, and then a couch and a chair that belong to the missionaries we're welcome to use. It's nice to have some time to look for more of our furniture before we get married. We're pretty poor too so Craig's List and thrift stores will work out just fine. :)

It's strange though to live here by myself and as some of you know, I'm not always a fan of change. It really feels like now we should be married, but there is still some 80 days to go....

But anyways, this is part of putting down roots here in Indiana. Really, the whole thing of moving and finding a house is a testimony to the Lord's faithfulness to us and I would be remiss not to give him full glory for that. He certainly opened just the right doors for us and we feel his blessing upon this place and the way our marriage will unfold here.

Know that the door is always open to you friend! We have two guest rooms (both have beds, although you might choose the one that is not a built in loft held together with packing tape....) so we would love to welcome you into our home.

Hooray for our new home!

Here we are on the side of our house (the only place we could set the camera was on top of the car so it's not the best shot) but you get the idea. :)