When we moved to No Where

*I have no idea why this looks so strange and I am out of town so I can't fool with it now....

So try and understand this funny mess, it is fitting with this post.

Kristen at We are THAT Family has a offered a great button for those of us who are

also THAT family, you know the ones... I was inspired to share a time that every

thing went wrong.

We decided 4 years ago to move from our very upper class neighborhood where

I drove a Cadillac) to a town 4 hours away in the middle of no where (driving an 

old ugly green mini van)... Let me tell you why.  

HD was working with a large computer company and he traveled away from us 

(then Luke and Bo) 5 days a  week, he left at 3 am on Monday morning and 

returned sometime friday normally around 8 or 9 at night. We had prayed for 

years for HD to find a local job but to be honest he made so much money nothing 

could compare. Anyway, while camping near the place we live now, God started 

working on my heart, I felt instantly like we are supposed to live here, and in one 

week we had scoured the home ads and made a God lead decision to move to a 

town 4 hours away because the cost of living and lifestyle was so much less, but 

we would have so much more, HD home with us! It was a really hard decision,

we were very involved in our church being church planters, HD ran the sound board, 

helped every week to pull the truck full of portable church things (we met in a roller

skating rink) and helped set the whole church up, I was helping with worship and 

the nursery .... 

So we were leaving alot behind to go to a place we know not one single person, but 

still believing God is totally leading us. My wonderful Brother and Sister in law came 

from Ohio to help us pack up our 2 moving trucks, and head out to our new life.  

But the trouble began early, 2 trucks weren't enough we had to drive 80 miles an

hour to another town to get the only truck available on a holiday weekend, we go

it though. We drove on until 1 am finally arriving at our new home deep in the 

forest, I will never forget my Sister in laws face when we got out of our cars, she 

said This is no Where, you have a baby, this is out there... As we got out of the 

I excitedly said lets go look at the pool, it was a lovely above ground attached to 

our deck, as we came around the corner our feet got wet and it was not raining, 

but our pool had collapsed, all the walls were laid out in the yard and water was 

Everywhere.... Ok, maybe we didn't need a pool. We came inside things were well,

it was late and we both had little babies and toddlers, we laid down on the sleeping bags 

and went to bed. The next morning when the sun came up we saw that their was 

saving the pool so we cleaned up the mess while the guys started to unpack the 

trucks. A very odd oder was coming from our moving truck, it smelled like trash, 

not my trash more like a dumpster. As we made our way through the truck the 

smell was actually gagging us. When HD got to our mattress our brand new 

mattress our $2000 brand new mattress, he found this black stinky wet mess, it 

seems as if some of the generous church friends who helped us pack accidentally 

HD's Compost bucket, and then some one accidentally turned the box upside 

down which made the compost sludge spill out onto our new bed and every box it 

came in contact with... It was Sunday the day before Memorial Day in the middle 

no where, so we high tailed it to Sams Club 20 miles away and settled for a mid 

grade mattress that didn't smell like death. Memorial Day was fairly uneventful 

until we started unpacking my china cabinet, not one single dish was left, 

all of them were broken, every wine glass except 2, I was just as crushed as my 

dishes! I guess heading over the mountain and down one gravel road after 

another was to much for my lovely crystal. And then as we were working our 

way through the broken glass we here screaming from the bathroom where my 

brother in law and HD were giving the babies a bath, I came around the corner to 

see my 9 month old baby boy Bo covered in blood, his eye was split open and he 

was screaming so bad, I knew he need a plastic surgeon because I had been 

through this before with Luke but thats another story another THAT family story.  

We had a children's hospital back in our big town, I had no idea where to go or if 

they even had a children's hospital, we made our was to the hospital and indeed 

he did need a plastic surgeon to fix his eyelid, he need 9 stitches, we had to hold 

him in this strait jacket like wrapping while they fixed his little face, and yes we 

had to hold him that was so horrible, to see your baby helpless and being stitched

back together. It seems as if he stood up in the tub and fell before HD could grab

him he smacked his face on the side of the tub and it split right open. We were at

the hospital for 6 hours. The next morning it seemed really hot, it was because 

our air conditioning was broken, as I went for the phone we realized it was out....  

So no phone no air, in the middle of no where, I just kept thinking God must really 

want us here or did we move to the money pit? We used our cell to call the phone

company they told us it would be 5 business days, and have a lovely day, I would 

tell you how stupid they are but thankfully, 9 months later HD got the job that 

brought him home with that same phone company, so I love them and they pay 

the bills so I will leave all negative comments to myself ...So they come and fix 

the air for $400.00 and not but and hour later the power went out and stayed

out all day. By now let me tell you I felt like we had made a big mistake I want 

to go home back to the big town back to our friends away from no where.

The next day was the first day that seemed normal we even had a bonfire, because

we were country people now and we felt like we needed to burn something. All the

sudden a large deer ran through our yard and my dog chased it, she was gone all

night she was lost. HD slept on the couch, and called for her all night.

Our dog did come back about noon the next day. The lights have stayed on except for

a few winter storms. We have a best friend who works in heating and air so if

the air trys to go out we are covered. Bo's eye doesen't even have a visable scar. We

Love No Where, God has provided us with so much here, HD being home is the biggest

thing of all, our family felt so empty mon-fri, husbands and fathers are needed every

day. We have a wonderfully amazing church, we have great friends. We love small town,

I wouldn't leave No Where.