MOVING?!?!?!?

A lot has changed since my last post, I’m not even sure where to begin. The plan WAS to purchase the property behind us to add to our 2 acres thus equaling 6 acres.  Shortly after that post one of our neighbors called the Humane Society to report our illegal livestock.  The laws in our county state that you can not own so much as one chicken on less than 5 acres, while in the city you are allowed 6 chickens on a city lot, strange, but the law regardless.  We had figured that because we would be leasing the property behind us starting in October (until the owners moved out and sold it to us) that we would be ok to acquire some piglets and the above milk goat beauties, Ruth and Naomi.  Typically in the country most people don’t mind livestock.  Apparently we pushed the limits and ticked somebody off.  We were given 14 days to move all of our livestock.   At this time the tenants in our old house came to us about moving out.  All of this combined caused us to rethink our plan.  We decided that all things considered it made the most sense to move the family to our other house that has almost 7 acres.  So we called a few realtors and within a week had set things in motion to put our house on the market.  This happened on a Friday.  Saturday evening we came home to find our septic had backed up.  Very discouraging when you are preparing to sell your house. We were then unable to put any water at all down any drain in the house.  We had a septic guy come out who told us that our grandfathered system had failed, wouldn’t have passed inspection anyway and that we needed a new system.  We needed to move quickly, so we took our camper to a nearby campground and “moved in”.  We cleaned the house from top to bottom, touching up paint in various places and moving excess toys and things into the garage.  The house went on the market Tuesday night and we had our first offer by Wednesday.  It is now one week from the day that the house was put on the market and it is SOLD.  God is good.  We had over 20 showings over the weekend and 4 offers submitted.  Thankfully we had our camper to live in as I really am not sure how I would have pulled off hauling 7 kids and 2 dogs out of the house to accommodate the steady flow of showings.  God knew and He provided. As confusing as it all seemed at the time, His timing is perfect.  As Joe and I walked around the campground last evening we talked about how we can’t even believe the way things transpired.  We never thought we’d move back into our other house.  It all happened so quickly but it is clear it was all in God’s plan.  We will be “camping” until we move into our “new” house the middle of this month.  I’m thankful for the down time to spend at the campground with my family as it will quickly go to a much faster pace as we prepare to move.