another new chapter
See those trees! Those are our trees. they sit on our property! 4.75 acres of wooded land to build on. Closing is done and final, and we officially own the land. Everything took longer than I thought it should to this point, which of course may be just how these things go. Right up to […]
We took a new placement, assigned to us by a judge over a ZOOM call. She was just a face on a screen but with the legal authority to move children from one house to another. We closed the lid on the laptop, and just kind of stared at each other for a moment. “I […]
We set out on our foster care journey more than 9 years ago. We intended to adopt one child, probably between 2 and 7 years old, because that’s how old our bio kids were at the time. We thought maybe we would adopt a pair of siblings, because we’d heard that sometimes they needed homes […]
I feel like I need to backtrack a little bit, because understanding where we’re going might be easier if you understand how we got where we are now. We live in the same house we bought the year we got married, 18 years ago. It’s kind of remarkable when you think about it. We still […]
I hate waiting. This is something that Katie and I have in common, when we decide to go after something, we really want to do it RIGHT NOW. Or at least get the ball rolling steadily along. We really, really, really hate waiting. Yet here we are, waiting on our home equity loan to close […]
We visited the property several times and came to love it. It is 24 minutes from work for me. It is almost the 5 acres that we wanted. And it isn’t crazy narrow like a lot of the other properties are that we looked at. 10 acres isn’t so great when it’s 160′ wide and […]
This will make more sense if you read part 1 first, since that gives some background into what we are looking for and some of the challenges to our plan. A month ago I was trying to decide between a couple different properties that weren’t ideal. I had been shot down by 3 different zoning […]
The image on the front page of the blog is of the property we are buying. If I tell the story about how we arrived there, it might give a little insight into the journey we’ve already been on, and how it has shaped what we’re doing. There’s also some cool God-Provision stuff along the […]