It’s been a year. A year ago we went just for fun to look at a fixer-upper property on a lot of acreage. Totally just for fun. ; ) Afterward, we prayed and felt like the Lord was telling us to move right away. We didn’t know for sure if we would get that property, but either way, we were to move. We felt a sense of urgency and also a peace. We were going to take a big leap of faith. We listed our house within the week. We received a cash offer (with no appraisal) within a few days. It was wild. We just jumped not knowing where we would land.
We were moving forward with the fixer-upper, but there were a million hoops to jump through and we had to be super patient. So we closed on our house in November and moved into a furnished two-bedroom apartment as a family of 5.
We ended up getting our fixer-upper a month later in December. We were so excited and oh so naive. Lol. Little did we know all of the battles we would have to fight. I think the Lord didn’t tell us all that we are up against before we jumped so we wouldn’t “reason” our way out of it.
We had hoped that we would just come in, deep clean, and paint the walls. You know, cosmetic stuff and then we could start demoing certain things. Well, the previous owner had gone through a lot of life stuff and just let the house and land go for years. The house is actually pretty new but the amount of damage from the neglect was more than we realized.
Every wall was wood planking. Which was great. Or so we thought. As soon as my husband took down some planks in one of the rooms he found three dead rats behind it. There were also brown recluses. So………..now it all has to come down. The walls broke trust and I had to see/clean behind every wall. So we had to take the whole thing down to the studs.
So we worked for 4 months and got it to a place where we could move in. By that, I mean that we have a place to sleep and we can cook. We are still actually knee-deep in renovations. Things have really slowed down since we have had to start juggling real life, but we are about to kick it into high gear again. I still feel like I am on a mission trip out here. ; )
It has been a very difficult season but we are slowly coming out of it. We love the land and someday we will love this little tiny house too. It has so much potential! We are just going to have to love it back to life. We have a lot of plans and dreams for it.
We have many projects to go. I thought it may be fun to document and share what we are doing along the way. We know that God gave us this land, which was an answer to many years of prayers. We just didn’t know that there would be so many giants to conquer.
It has been a wilderness season both literally and spiritually. I will share more about that in the weeks to come. I honestly wasn’t sure if I would continue with the blog. The Lord spoke to me recently and prompted me to start it back up, so here I am. I am not sure what His plans are with it, but I am excited to see what will happen. Until next time…
