and it's official.

tim and i officially put our house up for sale today.

wow. my first house! it feels like a combination of surreal, sad, and excited. i got emotional the other day when i thought about all of the little decisions we made together as newlyweds. i remembered the conversation we had at lowes over light switch covers. he liked the cheap ones and the ones i preferred were a bit more expensive... but he caved because he loves me...

i don't know. it's silly, really. i will definitely miss this house, that's for sure. even the country has grown on me. i'll trade corn and friendly neighbors for a city where i won't know anyone. i think it's important to make this move though, because if we didn't, we would be apart 3-4 days a week so he could commute. the commuting costs and living expenses would make it even worse.

we are currently looking at different suburbs around the chicago area. deerfield, IL (home of trinity evangelical divinity school, a/k/a: TEDS) is apparently a part of the second richest county in the country. we are hoping to find a quaint little place close to a train station so that tim could just catch a train to school each day. with the cost of living being so high in deerfield, that would help us save some money.

we hope to sell our house by august. keep that in your prayers. if we don't, he'll commute to school until we do. we are hopeful, optimistic, and trusting that God will sort all this out in the end. tim will stay on part time with the church for the time being... he'll head home on the weekends a few times a month and i'll hopefully be joining him for at least two of those weekends.