i was SO wrong..

what was i wrong about? well, you might remember from this post when i said, "and currently we have no  planned major life changes."

key word.... planned.

i was wrong.

from the ages of 0-20 i lived in 2 houses. from 20-30 i will have lived in 7 houses. yes, 7. for many of my faithful military friends you are thinking, "so what? join the club!" :)

long story short, we are moving. thankfully, not out of kansas city. we are just down sizing. ugh. sometimes it just stinks when you have to be responsible. do i want to leave our house? no. do i want to leave the community we have built? no. do i want to live my dual sided fire place and amazing kitchen....NO. but sometimes we have to make hard decisions.  we are downsizing so that we can minimize our output and reduce our debt, therefore we can be debt free and start saving for a nest egg so we can buy a home. curse that Dave Ramsey ;)

we want a home of our own. but we don't want to be house poor, we don't want to be slaves to our home. we know what that feels like and it's this dark pit of suffocating YUCK!

in light of all the pain in this world, this is really a minor hiccup. like my brother-in-law so wisely states, "these are first world problems." we will have a wonderful roof over our heads, we will have more space in our home than the majority of this world, we will have food to feed our children, and most importantly we will have our family. i would say that's a pretty amazing life indeed.

unfortunately, we are leaving the school district we are currently in and currently LOVE! :( because of the uncertainty of how long this down size will be we are going to pull the kids back into homeschooling. i am super sad. had we remained in our home all 3 of our girls would be attending public school next year. anderson and i would have had 5 days a week of single-child bliss. oh, the things we could have accomplished! however, i am unwilling to drop them in and out of the public school system. until we are really settled i want to offer them the consistency of homeschooling. katie took the news with such ease. she loves efficient processes. homeschooling has it's problems, but if anything, it's efficient. she, of course is going to miss, miss, miss her friends, but we are committed to keeping up with her friends. although, we know life will change when we leave.

we know without a shadow of a doubt God had us in this magnificent home for 12 months for some very specific reasons. we are thankful for the year of reprieve. our house has truly been a haven. we have hosted more parties in one year than most people do in a life time. we love a full home so we want to work towards having a home of our own that we can host parties in for a life time...

here is to being "responsible" argh......
~s