The last few days, at least!
I had a busy Thursday/Friday – those are the days my Babe is away at uni until late. They were also the days we were given to inspect a couple of houses…
I don’t travel well these days. In my youth 🙂 I could walk wherever I needed to, carrying whatever was necessary for the day. At the moment it’s too much to walk to the bus stop from here, so I get a lift in when my Babe goes in to catch the train. This usually means sitting in a cafe with my coffee, waiting for the time of the appointment I’m supposed to be going to that day.
There are worse things to do with my time.
Thursday was an 8am drop off, with a viewing time of 1.30pm. That meant whiling away some time at breakfast, a bit of shopping, sitting in the library…unfortunately that viewing (the only reason I was in town) was cancelled at the last minute. I got the message just as I was gathering up my things to get the bus to the house.
Friday started off even earlier – 7am drop off at the other end of town. I found a cafe open at that time –
This was my view.
This was also my view!
It was still a bit chilly at that time of the morning, so I did move to the indoor section fairly soon after this.
The first house viewing was at 10am, which left a few hours to sit around or wander in. The boys came down to look with me – that house wasn’t as small as it looked from outside, but I’m unsure about it. We put in an application for both places though.
I was reminded of a verse earlier that morning, so I looked up the psalm it came from. Do you think Someone’s trying to tell me something? 😀
Went to my regular cafe with my boys after, then library for a bit, then the viewing that was cancelled the day before.
Why do houses never look, in reality, the way they do in the real estate ads? We know to compensate for the photo stretching that seems to infect all the listings, but it still can be hard to work out what you’re really looking at. This house was the one we were most interested in. It is probably still the one, but there were differences to the photos. For one thing, the people living there at the moment have “stuff” lying about everywhere, and there were quite a lot of other people also looking at the place, which made it hard to gauge sizes of rooms or overall space. They also have pets (dogs, I think), so there was some sort of pet fur pretty much everywhere, piled up in the window/door runners. The screens in the outside doors were full of claw marks, or almost torn out in some places. We were assured it would be cleaned before the next tenants came in.
It’s been a long few days, but I’m feeling optimistic.
I was glad to have been able to get to where I needed to, but I hurt today…for some reason, overdoing things seems to also make me feel a bit flu-ey.
Today, and probably tomorrow, was/will be taking it easy days. There’s still packing to do, as well as the regular stuff. For me, most days are doing things bit by bit.
Hopefully, by next week we’ll have more of an idea of where we are.
Or where we’re going!
Until then –
❤
1000 Fields of Roses 
I understand your situation. I am slower moving (NOT slow LOL) these days too. I believe God has the right place for you all, just keep going. Blessings and prayers Julie
Thank you 🙂
I think we are in the right place if we are still trusting God, whatever our speed!