Kev and I are finally moved in to our new place! This is a really exciting time for the both of us because it's the first time in our marriage where we get to live on our own, with just the two of us (I don't count our two dogs hehe). This will obviously be short-lived, since a baby will be taking up all our attention in about 3 months (how exciting is that?!) I'm trying my best to spend as much time with Kev before the baby comes. I'm actually at The Masters College in a separate room while Kevin is in class. I'm really thankful for this time since I stopped working and get to be with him. Almost every morning I drop him off at work and then pick him up after, and depending on his schedule, two or three nights of the week are spent driving to Santa Clarita to attend one of his classes at TMC. God willing, he will graduate in a year. If he keeps on going at the pace he's going, he will graduate by next summer. That means that it took him 4 years to get a Bachelors degree while working full-time and OVERTIME, while being engaged, then married to me...by the time he is finished, he will have a little baby girl in his arms too...I cannot believe how fast time flies...After he is finished with TMC, he plans to go to Talbot Divinity School, which is right next to our house. I'll be able to sigh a big breath of relief since it is just a walk down the street to Talbot, as opposed to the long drive up to Santa Clarita and back.
Living in a new home has presented certain challenges for me, specifically. I'm glad I'm transitioning before the baby comes! When we lived in Lakewood, we were renting a room in a house that belonged to his parents since Kev was in high school. That means everything was already decorated, and we didn't have to spend a lot of money on furniture, which is a huge blessing. That also means the utilities were all set up in his parents' names and we didn't have to check in on those things. Now that we live in a new place, I was reminded of what it was like to live in a college apartment because I had to contact all of the city's utility companies...Southern California Edison, EDCO Trash and Recycables, Suburban Water Company, The Gas Company....We are still trying to decide if we want to pay for Time Warner Cable for internet and TV. And it was hard because we accumulated a lot of trash this week, yet had no trash bins! Apparently my order had not been put in correctly, so our trash is out in the open, and is being attacked by armies of ants as I type! I was freaking out because of all those ants. It just seems endless! They attack the trash, and my fridge, and the sink....And the first two nights I was horrified because we came into contact with two cockroaches. I could barely sleep, I had to pray because I am afraid of roaches! I'm such a scaredy-cat! Back in Lakewood, we never had to deal with ants or cockroaches. It's also summer, so the bugs are out to play...and the heat seems unbearable. I am also pregnant, so I'm 100 degrees normally anyway because of hormones! It was much bigger space in Lakewood, so there was more air and ventilation. When I'm at our new place with the dogs, I am sweating up a storm as my dogs breathe heavily with their tongues wagging out. My poor pups, with their fur coats! Kevin always says it's ok to put on the air conditioner, but I can't help but feel guilty since I am not working and am concerned about bills. Our gas doesn't get turned on until tomorrow, so I've been showering in cold water which shocks my body for the first 5 minutes then feels refreshing the rest of the time. While I have these specific challenges and transitions, I cannot stress enough how happy I am that we are moved into this house! The way we were chosen to be the tenants was all God! We were so close to giving up even trying to rent a house bc of certain circumstances, but last minute God opened up this door for us. We are convinced that God wants us exactly where we are, and boy are we thankful! It makes me tear up to think that while we are moving in all our things and organizing all the furniture and décor, that our baby will spend their first 3 years of life in that house...I know it will be hard to leave that house when the time comes, just because of all the memories that haven't even happened yet!
Kev and I are so blessed to have such selfless and serving friends to help us move our belongings to this new place. We still have other things in Lakewood we need to get and our house still needs to be unpacked and organized more efficiently, slowly but surely! It's also a nice transition for me to be so close to my family. My mom visits me almost daily, or vice versa. We are less than 5 minutes away from each other driving distance. Joshua usually walks over to my house after he is done with summer school. And today my dad decided to drop by too. That was nice. It gets kind of lonely being a pregnant housewife/soon-to-be stay-at-home-mom. I want to unpack and do a lot of things around the house but I also get super tired and hot easily. A benefit of this is that I've got a lot more time to catch up on reading and relaxing.
As I type this, I am 25 weeks pregnant. We have about 15 weeks before the baby comes, gotta make the best use of this time!
Living in a new home has presented certain challenges for me, specifically. I'm glad I'm transitioning before the baby comes! When we lived in Lakewood, we were renting a room in a house that belonged to his parents since Kev was in high school. That means everything was already decorated, and we didn't have to spend a lot of money on furniture, which is a huge blessing. That also means the utilities were all set up in his parents' names and we didn't have to check in on those things. Now that we live in a new place, I was reminded of what it was like to live in a college apartment because I had to contact all of the city's utility companies...Southern California Edison, EDCO Trash and Recycables, Suburban Water Company, The Gas Company....We are still trying to decide if we want to pay for Time Warner Cable for internet and TV. And it was hard because we accumulated a lot of trash this week, yet had no trash bins! Apparently my order had not been put in correctly, so our trash is out in the open, and is being attacked by armies of ants as I type! I was freaking out because of all those ants. It just seems endless! They attack the trash, and my fridge, and the sink....And the first two nights I was horrified because we came into contact with two cockroaches. I could barely sleep, I had to pray because I am afraid of roaches! I'm such a scaredy-cat! Back in Lakewood, we never had to deal with ants or cockroaches. It's also summer, so the bugs are out to play...and the heat seems unbearable. I am also pregnant, so I'm 100 degrees normally anyway because of hormones! It was much bigger space in Lakewood, so there was more air and ventilation. When I'm at our new place with the dogs, I am sweating up a storm as my dogs breathe heavily with their tongues wagging out. My poor pups, with their fur coats! Kevin always says it's ok to put on the air conditioner, but I can't help but feel guilty since I am not working and am concerned about bills. Our gas doesn't get turned on until tomorrow, so I've been showering in cold water which shocks my body for the first 5 minutes then feels refreshing the rest of the time. While I have these specific challenges and transitions, I cannot stress enough how happy I am that we are moved into this house! The way we were chosen to be the tenants was all God! We were so close to giving up even trying to rent a house bc of certain circumstances, but last minute God opened up this door for us. We are convinced that God wants us exactly where we are, and boy are we thankful! It makes me tear up to think that while we are moving in all our things and organizing all the furniture and décor, that our baby will spend their first 3 years of life in that house...I know it will be hard to leave that house when the time comes, just because of all the memories that haven't even happened yet!
Kev and I are so blessed to have such selfless and serving friends to help us move our belongings to this new place. We still have other things in Lakewood we need to get and our house still needs to be unpacked and organized more efficiently, slowly but surely! It's also a nice transition for me to be so close to my family. My mom visits me almost daily, or vice versa. We are less than 5 minutes away from each other driving distance. Joshua usually walks over to my house after he is done with summer school. And today my dad decided to drop by too. That was nice. It gets kind of lonely being a pregnant housewife/soon-to-be stay-at-home-mom. I want to unpack and do a lot of things around the house but I also get super tired and hot easily. A benefit of this is that I've got a lot more time to catch up on reading and relaxing.
As I type this, I am 25 weeks pregnant. We have about 15 weeks before the baby comes, gotta make the best use of this time!
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