A Big Decision
If you follow me online, you have probably noticed I have been absent online since Christmas. Let me catch you up on what we’ve been doing. We started out the year with a bang! In January, we decided it was time for us to make a move. We took a really heavy pay cut last year in the middle of the year. After several months of scrambling, cutting back, picking up extra hours, and more, we decided we needed to bring down our mortgage payments. Our goal was to cut our mortgage in half. So with that in mind, the second week of January we decided to begin the process of selling our home and moving.
We made a call to a realtor friend of ours, and we were off. Our house needed a ton of work, so we got to work. We painted everything in sight. I told Matt if the kids stood still too long, they would get painted. We redid a bathroom, ripped out carpet, put in new carpet, redecorated and staged the house, cleaned out our basement, and packed up most of the house. It was a crazy six weeks. We headed into
Selling Our Home, Moving, and a Wedding
After a Saturday and Sunday open house with around sixty people showing up, we came away with multiple offers and a bidding war. We officially accepted a bid on Monday night after the open houses. Then all the craziness started with looking for a new house, inspections, appraisals, paperwork, and all that messy stuff. We pushed through all of that and began the moving process. We moved into our new home the second week of April. After just a few days of settling in, we hit the road to head to Illinois for my younger sister’s wedding. We got to spend lots of time with family and friends, laughing, having fun together,
Here’s a few pictures from the wedding…
Back to Normal Life
After that, we started the trip home and stopped in Pittsburgh for a few days for some much-needed downtime to relax and have some fun together. Now we are back home, finishing the year homeschooling, and looking forward to summer break!
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Oh wow lots have happened! Where did you guys move to? I didn’t know you took a big pay cut ☹️ that can be hard on family. It’s good to get the blog again 😁
Hey Liz, Good to hear from you! It worked out well. We actually moved closer to the church, while being able to cut our mortgage in half. Hope you’re doing well!!
Hey Amanda you all should come visit or we could visit you. We are close. I live in Halifax Pennsylvania outside Harrisburg. We literally have a zoo 5 min from our home (lake Tobias) it would be great to see you after many years.
My husband pastors a small country church in the area also. We have a missions apartment you all could stay in if you come up this way. Or we can meet up somewhere.