mi casa es tu casa

Well, here's a short post just to let you know that we are successfully moved in to our new place. One Saturday morning/afternoon, one truck, and half a dozen faithful female friends placed us in our new apartment, safe and sound, albeit a little disorganized.

Although David invited half the church to come and help us move, only half a dozen young women showed up at our house at 7:30 am on Saturday to help us pack, move, and clean. Don't worry, we're in the midst of giving our guy friends a hard time about the quality of their friendship. These awesome girls pretty much worked a miracle by packing up our entire kitchen and most of our bedrooms, as well as cleaning practically every square inch of the empty house, all in half a day. Yeah, we pretty much owe our lives to them. I'll never say a bad thing about women for as long as I live.

Our new place is much smaller than our house before, which had two floors and a huge basement, but it fits us a LOT better than the old one. We hardly used any of the acres of space we had in the old house, and now it feels that the three bedroom, one bath wonder we have now is truly home. That, and it is partially carpeted, fully insulated, and has central heating, which are all rarities in Mexican residential construction. It was wonderful to get out of bed this morning and sink my toesies into soft, warm carpet and not freeze my buns off after getting out of the shower. Oh, what a creature of comfort I am!

I'll try to post a few pictures of our new abode here pretty soon. Fifteen days until home, and counting!