The Farm

Last year on my birthday Amanda and I were driving together out in the country near our house.  We drove past a beautiful farmhouse that was newly for sale.  We went home and looked it up online.  We were just dreaming.  A month or so later they made a huge price drop.  Another month, another price drop.  We told Shube.  We started the process.

We have been talking about the possibility of buying a place with Amanda's mom or for years.  We've even been close to getting a place before.  The time and the place were not ever right, until now.  This week, we closed on our new farm.  The house is an old one, built in 1914.  There's plenty of work to keep three boys and a grown man busy for years to come.  There will be plenty of work for our girls as well.  The work is exciting though.  The work is one of the main reasons we hoped for a place like this.  Work is a tool to train children in character.  My parents employed this tool all through my growing up.  We have employed this tool already and look forward to its furthering.

We also look forward to the joy that will be shared in a new space.  We hope to welcome many of you in the coming months.  We are thankful to God for leading us in his providence to this point.  We have felt his guidance indisputably through what has been a long and at times somewhat stressful process.