Update

It has been a very long time... Please forgive the following format, but I want to get to it so that I can eventually get back to normal blogging. So in no particular order, since I last wrote at the beginning of December, we have:

Bought a new house. After much to do over a certain power of attorney document, we successfully closed on our house in Illinois. We are now the proud owners of two mortgages. Just for a little while though. Our Petoskey house has been on the market with some activity. If we don't sell within a couple of months, Cori's company will buy it. In the meantime, we get the special treat of paying the two mortgages, as well as two sets of winter month utilities. I can't complain. We are very fortunate to have the buy out on the horizon.


Spent a lovely Christmas with my family. My sisters, parents, and grandmother all came out to spend the holiday with us. The only one missing was my brother. And we missed him. We stayed at a vacation home on Walloon Lake. It snowed every single day which made for an extremely white Christmas morning. It was special spending the week together. I'll post pictures and more details soon.

Faced another miscarriage. The pregnancy was a welcomed surprise. That I miscarried should not have been a surprise as this is not our first, or our second miscarriage. But I had been remarkably sick for some time before the news came, and I was further along than I had been with the others. So it came as a bit of a shock. I waited nearly two weeks before having the D&C. That was a harder decision to make than I thought it would be. We went in the Monday before Christmas. Grace and Grant had lots of family around, and Cori was able to spend the day with me. I'm finally feeling the dissipation of morning sickness and more like myself everyday. The one great blessing to come from this was that during a time when there was a crazy amount of things to be done, I was forced to slow down and prioritize. I got to enjoy my kids in a way that would not have happened otherwise.

Packed up, moved across Lake Michigan, and unpacked (well, we're getting there). The Monday before Christmas our house was boxed up. Everything got loaded onto the truck the next day. We kissed our family good bye on Saturday. We said good bye to our Church family on Sunday and then made our way to our new hometown. The next day we met the movers and began getting settled in. Sara graciously offered to spend her whole break from law school with us so she could help. It has been amazing. With her and Cori around, I am light years ahead of where I usually am at this stage of the game. We actually have the main floor completely unpacked, and there are only four boxes left upstairs. Of course there is a mountain of storage to organize in the basement...

Our access to the internet is a bit limited for the next week or so, but I will post more as I can. We are loving our new home, and feel we have been very, very blessed. I'm always amazed at how things work out. It is a good thing I'm not in charge!