Disaster leads to promise

What we've learned over the years through all our disasters (and there have been quite a few in our 2 years of marriage already) is that God usually takes our hand during those times and leads us to a better place. We signed new tenants yesterday...like the lease is now signed by both parties. We've had tremendous response of interest from people in renting our place since we spent that weekend working on it. How could there not be though, the place is gorgeous now. Our new renters have no kids and no pets (and no desires for either right now). They both work, one is an engineer making over $80K and the other a quality rep making around $60. We couldn't ask for better tenants from an income perspective! Let's just hope they care for the place better than the last people. All that is left now is starting to figure out how we are going to get our money back from the old renters...we are out some STAGGERING amounts of money right now.

On a side note, we close on our new house on Thursday. We are so excited to start making it our own!! The carpets are getting cleaned on Thursday afternoon, appliances will be delivered on Saturday, and then we start moving everything out of storage on Saturday. While we'll miss having Doug and Jeannie around (I know Addison will), having more space to spread out will be a real treat for us. We have a bunch of work to do before we move fully in though: new light fixtures (the people sold most of them), some doors to be hung (yeah sold those too), walls to be painted, vanity to install (yup you guessed it...sold the vanity), and window fixtures to hang. Once we get done though, this place is going to be magnificent!

By the way, if any of our loyal readers want to help with the move on Saturday (or with any projects)...let us know! :-)