This week the Tabares Clan is packing and readying itself for Moving Day!  We say goodbye to the rural NW Indiana with its charm (though filled with potholes, road kill and confusing street names) to head for the larger city feel that is the Indianapolis area.  We will miss our church terribly and our son will miss his friends and his Teen Bible Study, but we are excited to reach the new destination God has for us in an environment we are more used to and comfortable with.

It will be nice to have shopping and other things nearby instead of having to drive 45 minutes or into Chicago for them!  The new church is bigger (but not too big) and has a huge teen program.  There are many more places for teens to have fun in Indy and the streets are more what I’m comfortable driving on so with my anxiety after the accident and my fibro pain and brain fogged mind, this should make life easier for me.  Indy is also a much better area for our real estate business to flourish.

It’s been a very difficult 19 months here in NW Indiana.  Not that it’s NW Indiana’s fault. LOL  Just worked out that way.  We have had at least one major crisis/struggle each month here including the latest (losing my dh’s job six months ago).  We thank God for the blessings that have come inside of these struggles and I list a few of them here:

1. Thank you, Lord that we were able to find a house in a very nice neighborhood that is even much less expensive than the house we currently rent and is close to so many things!

2. Thank You that our dd and son-in-law will be coming down to help us load and unload for the move! … And that we were able to hire a few men to help us. Plus the fact that the new landlords have agreed to allow us to prorate the rent for a day so we can move in a day early so we don’t have to wait a day after moving out here to move in there!