After the birth of our son last year we quickly realized that the home we purchased when we moved back to East Tennessee was not big enough for our growing family. After I (N) resigned from my position at the church, we no longer had a need to live in Oak Ridge. We took the opportunity to look for a new home with more space and one that would be closer to J's work so that he could have more time with us at home. After readying our home for the market, we began to look casually for a new home in Knoxville. We knew that in such a bad economy it could take a while for the house to sell, so we didn't want to look to soon, fall in love with a house, and have it sold right from under us. After getting quite a bit of interest in our Oak Ridge house, we decided to begin looking more seriously. We found a house that we loved. Not only did it have almost twice the space of our last home, it also had an additional 2 car detached garage/workshop which made J drool. We still had no offer on our house when we learned that someone else was planning to make an offer on the house we wanted. Through much prayer and against all odds, our offer was accepted and within a few days an offer came through on our house in Oak Ridge. Although there were some road blocks along the way, the Lord provided for us at each turn, and on Tuesday, October 21 we moved into our new home.
Now almost three months later we are close to finishing phase one of making this house our home. We have painted most of the upstairs and purchased curtains for all of the rooms. Here are some pictures of the new place where our family is planted for now. There is still a lot of work to do, especially in the kitchen, but it will come soon enough.
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