July 17, 2022 - Sunday

It's another rainy day today and the only time we got out of the house was for another umbrella walk. It's a simple thing to do, but everyone loves it! 

Ben and I sat and talked quite a bit about moving today. It just feels so impossible when we really think about it. You know? I'm trying to get Ben to wrap his mind around the idea of building an addition onto a smaller house. [For instance, there's a 2 bed, 1 bath, 1,000sq foot house for sale over by Cooke Rd. right now. It sits on 3 acres of land. If we built on a 3-car garage with a mud room and laundry room behind it and four bedrooms, 2 bath on top of it, we'd have everything we need. I'm not sure how much that would cost, but I am confident that we could do a lot of the work. We'd just be living in discomfort for a while during the building phase. So we need to get a house that's cheap enough that we can build onto it, but it would open up our options so much if we think of it this way.] It's one thing to get everyone signed up for Calumet next year, but it's another thing entirely to sell our house and buy another one. I feel like it's God's will for us to make this move and I've felt the push for a couple of years, so I want to follow where I'm being led, but it makes me feel really sad to think about leaving this house. I told Ben I'm taking the bookshelves from the study with me, along with the playset me and dad just built AND the hot tub. Ben doesn't think we'll be able to take any of those things. :( I'll leave behind the hot tub, but I want my bookshelves! He says there are only 3 good things about this house and I can't take them all with me. We'll see!