The Cottage

TADA! Well quite a few inquiring minds have asked us where we are staying while we are waiting for our house to close. Well, we are pretty much roughing it. Life in the Coast Guard is tough ;) It kind of stinks to be moving up here to the North just in time for the cold winter, but there are some perks. One perk being that we can rent an ocean front cottage for a month for the price it rents for a week in the summer! So this is our temp house that we are renting until (Lord willing!) our house closes in mid December.

The view out our front door...I could do without the big sand dune in front, but they didn't ask me, hehe.

View from behind the house looking out to the ocean.

As you can tell from the first picture, the house is rather small. I'd say its about 600 sqft (but I'm a bad guesser). It has two tiny bedrooms, 1 bath, living room and what they call a kitchen.

This is the "kitchen" area. I mean I can't really complain...but I need a bit more space than that to whip up some meals! The house came furnished which was great since all of our furniture is in storage...however, we still came with a lot of baggage (I mean, a girl HAS to have her OWN kitchen stuff to cook, right?!! And all of her clothes...and shoes....). So please excuse the mess, we pretty much have to put stuff where it will be out of the main walkway! To cook anything I pretty much just have to keep shuffling things around to make room where I need it. Anytime I get frustrated I just turn around and gaze directly at my unobstructed (except for that dune!) view of the ocean and all is well :)

I just liked this picture :)

Picture of the beach in front of our cottage

The beaches up here aren't really like the beaches we are used to in NC and FL...there are a bunch of round stones mixed in with the sand. I can't imagine it is very comfortable to walk the beaches barefoot in the summer not to mention laying out to catch some rays. None the less, it is still quite beautiful!!!

So that is that! Farewell for now!

We Made It!

Just a quick pictureless post to let everyone know that we have now made it up to Cape Cod, MA! We left Florida on Friday Oct. 29th and drove up to Charlotte to spend some time with family before we headed even further north. While in Charlotte we got to attend the 35th annual Killough Family Farm hayride (a hayride we have on our farm every year for my family's church). It was a bit chilly, but a blast none-the-less! We also got to spend some time with friends and family throughout our time there (and of course, lots of Mason time for me!!).

Then on Thursday, Nov 4th, we hooked up all of the cars and started our trek. The first day we drove about 10 hours and made it to Scranton, PA (can't help but think of The Office when I say that)...it was pretty nasty weather the whole way. Then on Friday we got up and made the second leg of the trip. We arrived in Cape Cod at about 5PM on Friday...just in time for rush hour traffic over the bridge. Just as we went around a curve and saw the sign that said "Welcome to Cape Cod" we also saw about a mile or two of brake lights. From what I hear, that was an authentic Cape Cod welcome.

To top off our welcome to Cape Cod, yesterday we woke up to a nice fresh dusting of snow and sleet. My realtor told me that it was the earliest she can remember getting snow...looks like we are in for a fun winter!

As for a our housing situation, things are going along nicely. When we came up to look for houses a couple of weeks ago we found a house we were interested in and put an offer in on it. The house was a short sale so we were told it could take quite a while for the bank to get back with us. We really felt like God was "in" this, so we decided to trust Him to work it out and get us into the house in a timely manner, despite the rumors we were hearing. Well, lo and behold, we got a call on Weds before we left CLT to come up here saying that the bank had accepted our offer and wanted to move things as quickly as possible! God is so good!! So, right now we are in the midst of getting all the paper work together and doing all the fun stuff that comes with buying a house!

Our closing date for the house isn't until December 14th, so right now we are staying in temporary quarters on base (which is a fairly nice townhouse). They allow us to stay here for free for 10 days and then we will have to find another temporary house for about a month and hope that everything works out in a timely manner. No life like the military life! haha.

So in the midst of all of this chaos I can say, life is good and God is "gooder" :) Farewell for now!