Moving in!

The farmhouse

The big barn

The party barn

The small barn

There was a zen-ness about our move. It came after we accepted one truth: everything that can be complicated, will be complicated. 

We sold our house in town in 3 days for more than asking price.

Then, we tried to buy a farm. That's when it all got complicated. Negotiating a price? Complicated. Negotiating repairs? Complicated. Moving into storage, patching together a hotel + in-law stay over the holidays before getting possession of the farm? Very complicated. Moving into the house two days before the coldest weather in two decades (polar vortex, baby!) and a snow storm? Complicated. Getting TV, internet, garbage, propane, and mail service established? Complicated. Finding someone to plow us out of said storm? Complicated. The boys not having school all week (while we didn't have furniture or TV or internet or laundry) while we were starting our semester? Very complicated.

But look at us now: We have a farm. We have TV, internet, garbage, mail, propane, and furniture. We have children back in school and parents back at work. We have repairs happening on the farmhouse. We even have lots of boxes unpacked and everyone sleeping on real mattresses again in our own rooms. We have a plan for our first room to rehab.

I'm sure it will be complicated. But, complicated is familiar. We can do complicated.