The cleaning and fixing of the house is going surprisingly well. Damon I scraped and painted all that we could reach over the past 2 days. The upstairs windows, we will have to scrape and paint by hanging out of them...yay! Damon cleaned out all the junk from underneath the house yesterday, and I cleaned out the junk from the storage space (kind of like an attic) upstairs. I found receipts from bills that Damon's grandparents paid in 1958. I even found some of their old shoes. Clearly this was not all our stuff. On Tuesday, we will take everything from the garage to the dump, as well as all of the trash that Damon and I uncovered yesterday. I am so thankful for my Daddy. He is so willing to let us use his truck and to help anyway he can.
I have been packing stuff up as well. I have so much glassware. The bins full of my glass will probably take up more space than all of my clothes..hahaha.
It is so odd to think of not being here anymore. I have such an odd mixture of emotions. Sometimes I feel so sad about it. Other days I really feel the freedom of getting rid of stuff and having a clean slate in front of me. I can move anywhere...there is no mortgage or lease to hold me at this point. Of course, I mean within Richmond. Damon has made it clear that I cannot take Mia from him. If only I could merge my friends and family in Richmond with my friends and family in the midwest...or teleport. I could go back and forth whenever I want :)
Now, on to the miracle. In the last post I mentioned the porch needing to be fixed. Well, it was the porch, putting in a whole new window upstairs, putting in insulation under the "computer room", replacing a rotting window sill in a dormer window, and fixing a crack in the cinderblock foundation, along with the scraping and painting. I got a call on Wednesday evening saying that the buyer was going to do everything but the scraping and painting and only wanted $500.00 off of the selling price. I almost fell off of the sofa. To me, this is the favor of the Lord. Who does stuff like this? These are good folks and they really want the house, but I feel like this was a miracle. God likes me, what can I say?
It looks like if all goes as planned, we will close on July 9th. I can hardly believe I will be out of here in less than 2 weeks. I don't know how quickly I will have access to the money, but my plan is to get my car serviced and head to Belleville, IL to be with Deanna and then on to Kansas City, MO immediately. I want Mia to go to a camp at IHOP-KC which is July 16-18, and I want to see my friends and sit in the prayer room. I miss my friends in KC so badly that sometimes I just sit here and cry thinking of them. It will be so good to hug them and be with them.
Well, there is my update. It is going along quite well. I am amazed. I truly see the hand of God in it all. Now if only I knew where to live...(my parent's for the time being, but where will I land?)
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