Moving time

Shane and I have almost been married for five years and these walls contain the first chapter of the story of our life together.

We have lived in this two bedroom apartment for almost four and a half years, and it has been lovely. So many times I have sat in the living room of our first home together and just felt fit to burst with pride and joy. To have our own home ( ok, rent our own home!) as small as it is, to look after it and the people who dwell within its walls; What a privilege! Yes I struggle to keep things looking neat and nice and in order, but I still take great pride in my home. I have loved living here. I love its retro tiles and high ceilings, the large bedrooms and the pretty back yard. The unique stone front fence, where I hid easter treats for Esther's first egg hunt. I like our little front steps and the memory of carrying home our two babies from hospital. First smiles, first steps, first sleep-through-the-nights again. Heavenly dry season nights and (losing it) hot, muggy wet season days- we survived without air-con!


We have slowly filled up every square inch of wall space of our once bare apartment with furniture. So many tears and so many moments of hilarity and happiness here. Memories of friends and family coming to stay, tenting in the backyard or camping on the living room floor. New born baths in the kitchen sink and baths in laundry tub, yummy creations in the kitchen, potty training disasters, a thousand time-outs, dinner parties (ok, only one of those) and birthdays, the family of rats living in our stove, the possums in our roof, the frogs in our toilet, the cockroaches in the corner...Good times!

And now it is time for us to move. I will certainly feel sad and sentimental when we walk out this door for the last time to call it our home, the only home our girls have known. The season we have had here has been sweet and I will be sorry to turn the page on this chapter- BUT I look forward with eager anticipation to our new abode- wherever that might be, I am trusting the God who has provided for us so generously to lead us where he wants us. Wherever that is we will flourish! I am so thankful to our heavenly father who looks after all our needs, so we don't have to worry. Wherever we are we are at home when he lives in our hearts. I am ready to move forward with him thanking him for what has been and what will be! To him be the glory!