Don't let the title of this post alarm you. We are just moving around the corner. Like, literally, we are moving to the house whose backyard touches ours. We are currently brainstorming a cool way to pass our household items over the fence. In case you're new around here, we just moved a year ago and now that our lease is up, the owners of our house want to raise our already high rent. We are opting to say, "no thank you," and move to a smaller place in the same neighborhood for a lot less money. Through this process I have really felt like this has been a God given opportunity for our family to save for the future, be more generous in the present, and to abandon the emphasis we place on our material possessions. You would be surprised at how hard it actually is to decide to leave a place you call home and opt for one with less square footage... and blue carpet. That being said, we have been organizing and purging and donating and planning ways to make this new place ours and I have to say it feels amazing. It feels good to be in a better place financially, sure, but what is really great is how good it feels to realign my priorities, put more emphasis on what really matters and feel so thankful for all that we are given. Paul kind of laughed at me the other day when I mentioned that I feel kind of dumb for stressing out over little things like this when there are people in the world who don't have running water but I'm dead serious. We are so incredibly blessed and I am feeling so excited about cramming all of our blessed children's toys into this new place!
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