You Must Be In on the Secret ;)

Welcome to my new blog my beautiful friends! :)
If you're viewing this post now, you are one of the precious few who are in on our humongous, ginormous, life-changing secret (and you know how hard it is for me to keep secrets!) We are picking up and starting a whole new life nearly 1500 miles away in a small village in Vermont!!! Yikes! :S It's scary & exciting and overwhelming and wonderful all at once. The truth is, we have just been through entirely too much for one little family to handle, and while we want to be stubborn & stick it out till the bitter end, we also have to decide what our breaking point is; at what point do we say enough is enough. We're putting our feet down & taking control & putting what's best for our family FIRST. Yes, we most certainly will finish that rediculous house in Kansas. We're just not going to let it cause us suffering anymore. (You try living in one hotel room with your three kids for a while & tell me how great it is! lol) How & when we're going to do it from the other side of the country? Hell, I don't know! lol But we will because we're not quitters (and letting it go is just plain dumb).

In the mean time though, we're going to focus on doing something productive that will be good for our family. What does that mean to my insane husband? "Hey, let's buy a run-down 150 year-old house in Vermont & rehab THAT!" Awesome. Just what we need! lol Truthfully though, Mathew has wanted to live in Vermont for the last 10+ years. He just feels at home there for some strange reason. I joke with him that he must have lived there in a previous life. ;) And he's wanted this particular house for the last 8+ years. Why? Couldn't tell ya. But even I've got to admit that it does have a certain charm to it, and I can see that it can become a beautiful home if given a TON of love. So it kind of fell into our laps at a time when we most needed something to work in our favor, & we decided to pay attention to God's gentle push forward & go for it!

What this blog is going to turn out to be, I'm not quite sure yet. It may be a blog about our progress on the VT house and/or the KS house, it may be a blog about our day to day lives in a whole new world to us, or it may just be me venting about what a saint my husband has for a wife for going along with this whole crazy scheme! lol Whichever direction it takes, I hope you'll join me for the ride!