Our Land

We bought land!

We have been dreaming of building our own home since I was pregnant with our daughter. Living in our 900sqft home. I remember Dane sitting at our tiny kitchen table while she was in her bumbo on top of the table as he drew our home on graph paper. It is pretty amazing that this dream has started taking fruition.

We purchased 4 acres in NC the day after we sold our home in Richmond, VA.

After much prayer, and the knowledge that we would be moving from our beloved Richmond, we knew the time was right. We pulled out the old and dusty plans from years passed and started drawing in pencil the changes we wanted to make. We flipped rooms around, added more windows to mirror the home we loved in RVA and some more outdoor living space. We hired the same architect to finalize the changes and just recently received the final drafts. Oh how exciting it was! When we return from our cross country trip we will begin the process of permits and making decisions on what we will clear and what will stay.

In the meantime we will live in our 32 foot rig Polly, waiting patiently and working diligently to build our home. Living in a small space for a long time will bring up challenges but I am welcome them. I want God to refine me in this time. Show me what it is in me that does not bring forth glory to Him. What a better way to do it than to live in this space with those I love the most, and who can bring out the worst in me too. Should be fun, hard and life-giving.

I am thrilled for the day I can order our first baby chicks, hang coats up in our mud room and see children with red cheeks running around our land. Grateful for the vision of the future. For as long as I can remember when someone would ask me what my dream is I would say, “Being barefoot with my children, living in a home with a front porch on land.” I get chills when I think of how God turns ashes into beauty and and in the midst of it all he hears our hearts. Never leaving.

WOOHOOOOO