October 2018

The month we had been waiting for finally arrived. This month we would get the keys to our dream. We had for years dreamed of owning our own home but because the area in which we lived was an expensive area we were always just a little short of what we needed to buy a house there. ( I was also more interested in being at home with the kids than having a career and working long hours, so we prioritised that.) Now that the kids were grown, we felt that we could move to an area that was not as expensive. 

We would be moving about a 30 to 35 minutes drive from where we had lived for 18 years and we could hardly wait. The only downside was that I was leaving behind my great neighbour and friend - Laura.  It had been wonderful being her neighbour for 6 of those 18 years. (She, however, was also about to move - she too had bought a house in another town.)

Saturday 13th October we got the keys to our new home.

We could hardly believe that this was ours. We felt so grateful, thankful and blessed. 

A few weeks before we moved I posted the photos of our coming home on Facebook. A friend wrote to me to say that the house we bought was just across from where his good friends lived and they were  Christians. I thought that was pretty awesome - we had Christian neighbours. Then another message came from him. He said the girl actually came from Ireland! WHAT!!!!

So a few hours after we got the keys and were cleaning away in the house, someone knocked on our door. When I opened there was a couple dressed up in wigs and false teeth. They put their hands out to shake hands and said "hello we are your new neighbours" in Danish with a Ballymena accent haha

 I wish I had taken a photo! 

I was so excited to meet these neighbours, I was dying to know if the girl came from the South of Ireland or the North. Well, she came from the North, just outside of Belfast!! I could not believe it!!! A Christian and from my homeland - now only God could work that one out!! 

Now that we had the keys we spent the first few days working away on the house getting it cleaned and painted, ready for the furniture. Kristian and I both had the week off work.

Leah and Andrew were a great help too - Sara not so much haha (Sara was also moving that week to an apartment in the middle of the city so she had enough to see to.)

Before long we had the place cleaned and painted and ready for the furniture. 

We worked like crazy and before long we were arranging furniture and seeing what looked good where. 

This was beginning to feel a lot like home