Washington DC, Northern Virginia, & Maryland Wedding & Portraiture Photographer

I promise I am still here, even with the lack of blog posts showing otherwise 🙂  Since we have lived in the DC area we have been renting (how does anyone save for a down payment here and still work a job they love is beyond me right now), which means moving every now and again.  My husband and I pretty much detest moving.  Really though, who does like it?  I don’t understand those who do, but more power to you 🙂  So, we try to stay in a place quite awhile if possible.  Our last place we were in 3.5 years, but our homeowners decided it was time to sell.  In order to give them the best time to sell and to get the move over with before wedding season we moved in March.  To say this move was crazy is an understatement.  We looked for 3 months for a place and had the hardest time finding a 3 bedroom in our budget that wasn’t in a bad neighborhood (my husband studies crime after all so it has to pass the crime mapping test 🙂 ).  There were several places that while we were looking at them, like literally, we would get the call that someone had just put in an application.  There was one that the homeowner decided after week that she was nervous about our animals. Another the government changed their mind and is bringing the family back early, thus we couldn’t be in their house, and the list goes on.  It just seemed that God was closing every door.  I remember looking at a cape cod (maybe 1100-1200 sq feet) about a week before we had to be out of our place.  It was cute, remodeled well and in a decent neighborhood.  I kept trying to imagine how we would get our furniture to fit in the space and even had my hubby leave work to come check it out.  He arrived and after 20 minutes and arguing where I could have an office in this space he had a moment of clarity and told the realtor no to the cape cod.  He told me, “I don’t know where God has for us but this is not it.”  I struggled that night. Thankfully I had some alone time in the car and cried the whole way home.  We had no place to live after all.  I was packing my house and had no clue where I was going to move it to!  After lots of tears, prayer with some good friends, and a little coloring (some days going back to childhood wouldn’t be so bad right? 🙂 ) I felt a little better.  We  kept searching.  That following Sunday we went to church and afterwards went to look at a place we had found online that was rent by owner.  When we pulled up we prayed that we would have clarity.  The house was beautiful, in a good neighborhood (on the edge of Bowie), and way more house then we technically needed.  Two hours later we walked to our car and after driving away starting celebrating!  We could not even believe the house!  We filled out the application that night (t-minus 5 days before we had to move), they ran our credit Monday/talked to our home owners, I picked up the keys Tuesday, and the moving company moved everything Wednesday.  Oh and we were out of our old place by Friday:)

I have heard the saying that “God is rarely early, never late, but always on time” and in this case that is oh so true.  The house has little things that my husband and I have always said we would have in a house if we ever built one.  I have my own office right off the front door to meet with clients!!!!! The best part of it is that it has a door and at the end of the workday I can shut the door an walk away.  I can rest and not look at my computer the whole time, as in our last 2 places.  The stove is gas with a convection oven (cooks know what a joy this is!) and has a solid grate across the top so that all pans/pots fit, I have a soaking tub in my bathroom, my mom pretty much has a floor to herself, and the list goes on.  We are feeling mighty blessed these days.  To me this house is a reminder that God will provide.  Owning your own business is a very scary task and sometimes financial planning can get scary, but I look around me (in my own office!) and know that God provided this house and He will provide a way to pay for it.

So excited to see what this house will be used for!  Oh and because all posts are better with pictures, last night I took a few quick pics of two of my favorite flowers in my bathroom window:)  Happy Spring!