Our new house

In May, we moved into our new house in Monroe, Ohio. We really are enjoying living here. However, the path we followed to get to our new house was a bit of a challenging time in our lives.

In order for us to be able to move to Monroe (close to our church and Sarah's job), we had to sell our old house and build a new one. Of course, we couldn't start the building of our new house until we sold our old house. With the housing market the way it was, we couldn't risk being stuck paying two mortgages. So, where did we live from the time we sold our first house to when we moved into our new house? We lived in a very, very small, two bedroom apartment on the third floor in Northern Kentucky.

Did I mention that Sarah was pregnant at the time? Not only were we in these tiny living quarters that every time you moved you would bump into someone or something, but we were also welcoming our new son into the apartment. With a new baby that didn't yet sleep through the night and a 2 year old with more energy then a Duracell battery, just living a normal life was a challenge. Every cry or every sound would wake up everyone. It seemed that the luxury of sleep and just living what we had known as a normal life before the apartment would never return. So, in May, when we moved into our new house, we were ecstatic, to say the least. We would have appreciated the new house anyway, but after living in that old apartment, it just made our new house even sweeter.

It seems like life can be that way. Sometimes God allows us to go through some tough times and maybe get out of our comfort zone so that we can have a greater respect for, and enjoyment of, the great times in our lives. If we never experienced the hard times, we wouldn't know the sweetness of the great times.