I don’t think I ever shared here on the blog that our current home, this very home I’m sitting in right now was the first, home I truly ‘fell in love with’ while I was browsing homes for sale on mls as the kids and I were still living in BC and Graydon (dear hubby) had already gone ahead of us and was living alone out here on the prairies.

Another front view of our new home. SO many flower beds. I can't tell you how many bulbs I've planted over the years and had to leave behind for someone else to enjoy and now I get to enjoy all this!

I had asked Graydon to take a look at this very house last year August, to at least do a driveby. It wasn’t the outside of the home itself really that I fell in love with since I’m drawn more to the older character homes, but it was what the home offered in the way of size, AND land. Over 3000 square feet of indoor living space, with 87 acres!

And the kitchen, who wouldn’t fall in LOVE with this kitchen?! The home looked loved, and cared for.

I just realized I've never shared inside photos of our wonderful (minus the flood today) new home. Here's the kitchen.

But there were a couple of issues.
First, it was higher priced then the other homes we were considering, so we thought it was out of our league.
Second, we thought it couldn’t work, since there were no out buildings for our horses and combined with the higher asking price, it seemed best to look elsewhere.

Yet, through a series of unfortunate events, and our very ‘long way home’, it is in this very house that I fell in love with, that I sit in right now! Through no doing of our own! This was the way in which we HAD to go. There WAS no other options.

We may have thought it could NEVER work, and we may have felt we didn’t deserve to dare to dream quite so big, but obviously our thoughts are quite small.

This house and property are not ours at this time. We are only tenants. However, it has become our home. Our much loved home. And we hope and pray that it WILL remain our home. When our home in BC sells, we have already received approval to buy this one. It all continues to be a waiting game, a very expensive waiting game with each passing month that we continue to pay a large mortgage there, and rent here.

But while we wait, every morning that I sit in this living room looking out our huge bright windows, with my coffee & quiet time, I sigh in amazement that I am here. And I thank God that He brought us to this exact place, no matter how very difficult the road to get here continues to be.

Happy kitty.

Our ‘Long Way Home’ story continues to be written by the hand of God, we have no control over any of it but to do the best that we can each and every day.

Next month we go to a hearing to fight for our damage deposit from the ‘sewage’ landlord. We won’t even speak his name out loud anymore, after all the heartache and grief he has caused our family, all the while calling himself a Christian and throwing it in our faces over & over. It would have been easier to just give up, and let the damage deposit go, but we felt strongly that we need to fight this so maybe, just maybe, it won’t happen to the next person.

Our children have learned the hard way that you judge by the fruit shown in ones life, NOT by what they say. We’ve all learned MANY lessons and despite the cost, the pain, the heartache and the headache this whole “Way Home” has been, we see all the many blessings along the way as well and refuse to allow the negative to overshadow those very blessings!

And as far as no outbuildings on the property? That’s been taken care of too. A friend from church is bringing us an outbuilding this weekend. A FREE outbuilding. When we wondered how on earth we could come up with the funds to BUILD a shelter for the horses for winter, all the while paying a mortgage AND rent, we didn’t need to worry. It was already taken care of. Someone had a need to have a shelter removed from a pasture, and that need provides for our need of a shelter.

Amazing, isn’t it?

Some days I really question why I ever worry at all.