Day 2,210

The Dada is HOME!!!!!

I lost count after Amelia was born. I think yesterday was somewhere right around the 15th time we've moved in six years. Better stated, the 15th time I'VE moved everything in six years haha. Adam does what he can while he's home, but the majority remains my acknowledged task as his helper (which I accept with joy when I married him). And though aspects of it are CERTAINLY harder as the years have gone on, moving does have its own bizarre set of perks when your kiddies are old enough yet young enough to get excited about scrubbing the condo down with a paper towel roll. Ella Mae: counting down the days until you're old enough too ;)

This was actually our second time moving things out of our condo, as we made this same trip about 10 days ago with a suburban filled with suitcases. Round Two was more annoying and tedious having to round up all the "junk drawer" items that accumulate over a season. But we did it. And I even swept before leaving too. 

Locked and loaded and headed straight for home, waving farewell to a season that seemed never-ending at times. We learned a lot. We grew a TON. We loved more. Served better. We cried. We laughed. We got sent down and called back up. We were confused. We were doubtful. We were obedient and faithful. It was the hardest season of our lives. But, it was also by far, without a doubt, the richest, most fruitful, and far FAR better than we could've hoped to pray for. 

We are home. 

And this is something we will undoubtedly appreciate far longer than it'll last. The offseason always seems to fly by, but we're going to take it day by day, delighting in the sweet time we have with each other, growing in our faith, and resting from a difficult past six months. We have much ahead of us in the months to come, of which we will explain in more detail as it comes, but please be praying for our family as we settle in and plant deeper roots. 

Farewell 2017. We loved you. We despised you. We're grateful for all we've learned but definitely excited to enter 2018 fresh and determined for better results on the field.