I have to say this, God has been watching over DB and I. Ever since we scrambled all over hunting for a place to stay where we can keep the boys, every thing seems to fall through. All till the very dayof signing the rental lease, we don’t know if we can keep Chase. But it all worked out good for us. God answered our prayers. The landlady picked us even though we weren’t one of the first come first serve lookers. I take it because of our combined salaries our application was approved even though I had to run back to work to fax her a lot of other paperwork to support my new salary.
On the day of the move, we still had no keys to our new place till after 12 noon. I got up quite early to finish up some packing and then take Chase to the vet for his Bordatella (kennel cough) shot. I was crying knowing that he will be going to the kennel in New Prague (Ranger’s breeder). I told the vet if he can help us find a foster home for Chase, the vet was sad too but he said he will call one of his client if he (the client) wants to adopt Chase. Reason is the vet had to put the client’s dog down because of cancer 2 weeks ago. The vet said he will call me if he has news from the client. Till today, no call.
We went to sign the lease at 11 on the day of our move, Wednesday, May 5, and had to go through the house with the land lady and all took more than an hour. We talked to her about temporary letting us keep Chase till we can find a foster home for him. The landlady had a meltdown and immediately said not a problem, we can actually keep him if we want to. She will close one eye. This is because since we are living in a townhome environment, maximum dogs allowed are two. Those are townhome association rules, not her rules. So, we were happy and I praised the Lord silently right then when she told us. No more crying for me. She said if we find that it’s too crowded in the home with 3 of them, let her know. Her SIL is looking at adopting a dog. The landlady said unless someone complains then we have to do something with one of the dogs.
When we got back, Justin, DB’s nephew and my friend’s hubby D were already busy filling the U-Haul moving truck. We rented a 24 foot truck – the biggest. I am glad I don’t have to move any of them boxes and furniture. It’s definitely a back breaker day. I’m sure glad that there were two younger guys to help DB, those two guys who are in lower ab workout everyday kind of guys. DB more or less were the director but helped a lot with the heavier stuff. We didn’t get everything we wanted into the truck. By the time we got to the new house, it was 5:30 pm, i think or it could be 6 pm. While the guys unloaded the truck, I had to go back and forth between the new and old house. Whatever I can pack into my car, I did just that. The final run was to get the dogs. It was 10:30 p.m. when I finally loaded the 3 boys from the old house with their beds, food and food/water bowls into DB’s truck. Those 3 guys back at the new house was unloading the last of the “few” boxes from the truck. My friend’s hubby left earlier since he work the night before and barely had any sleep. So I helped a little when I got back and finally pull the truck door down at 11 p.m. The essential stuff were put in the house, i.e. TV, beds, kitchen, pantry, dining table, chairs, piano, sofa and couple of boxes for the rooms. The rest were dumped into the garage.
Till today, we still have a few more big items to pick up in the old house. The bank’s attorneys are nice to let us take our time to clear the house, take whatever we want. Some of the utilities like electric is still on at the old house since we need electricity to turn the lights on. There is no internet and satelite/cable at our new house but utilities are set up. The landlady is paying for the trash, so we are free from that.
I have taken some pictures of the house basically the kitchen. Just can’t get use to using a so modern stove range. It’s those electric flat glass range. Hate it to the max.
We are slowly settling in – kitchen is set up except for the pantry. We still have our pantry stuff in boxes. The landlady is coming over this weekend to talk about shelving for our pantry and also to bring the plumber to fix the jaccuzzi. Yes, there is a jaccuzzi in the bathroom. DB said he can’t wait to jump into that tub when it’s fixed. This new house has no basement, so a storm room is the replacement just in case of tornadoes.
This house is newer, think it was built in 2005. Barely any trees around. Our unit is at the cul-de-sac, a corner one. So we have the side yard for the boys. I have to put them on leashes all the time now when they want to go out for their business, but sometimes I don’t. The boys are finding it difficult now since they can’t simply go out anytime they want like before in the old house. Now they have to go out only when I or DB sends them out. I still throw the frisbee for Chase. Good thing we are in the end lot, we have the whole of the side and front yard that is basically public access.
The only things we need to get for the house are curtains to darken the room and one for the entry way glass panel. We are hoping the curtains for the room will help reduce the noise from the traffic. We now live right in front of the freeway (35W), a free way that connects north of MN all the way south to Gulf of Mexico in Texas. Also DB is working nights once he gets done with his training next week, he will be sleeping during the day, the curtains will help him sleep, I hope.
I’m very grateful for what we found and all the help we had during our move. There are still a lot of junk I want to clear off and to make our house “a liveable house”. We are thankful for what we got and the good Lord has definitely provided us plenty during and so far, is still providing us. Will update with pictures once we get our internet hook up this weekend.
