Emotional Rollercoaster...the ride is over!

I can't tell you what an emotional roller coaster the last couple weeks have been -move, not move, move in 10 days, then give us 4 days longer. Looking like crazy for houses, finding nothing safe, suitable and available. Feeling the insecurity of not knowing where we will live in a just a few days. Thinking through what life would look like if we had to return to that 400 sq.ft. apartment we had stayed at initially. That was stressful. With a 2 year old, a homeschooling second grader, and both John and I studying language with a tutor that comes to the home 5 days a week, that apartment wouldn't work well.

We have found something that might work but the timing wasn't working out. Our friends, Petter and Jenny, missionaries from Sweden are needing to return to Sweden to have a surgery. Their house would become available once they left Thailand October 13th. It is in the same neighborhood that we wanted to live in, the one where our Pastors from Khon Kaen International live. This way Brayden and Aslan would have friends close by. The only way we could pursue this home was if we did indeed live in that apartment for 6 weeks! (Ugh...I would so hate that.) Then, we talked to our landlady and asked if we could possibly stay longer. We were surprised that she quickly and easily said "yes". What a relief! So a move is not needed for 6 more weeks and then it will be to a place already known and established! This is a big deal!

What is also a big deal is that there has been some clearing of the air with our landlady Ae. The day we had our last meeting, that ended up terribly, she brought two ladies from the front office of our neighborhood to translate English/Thai. Through them, Ae either misunderstood or was misinformed about what John was saying. So all this time, our landlady has been confused and angry at something we did not even say. I think having the business agenda of her interpreters could have been the cause. The home office could have benefited twice from our dispute, once to find new renters here and second to find us a new place to stay. Although we still can not agree on the spirit house issue, it does feel good to have a workable relationship restored with Ae. I just couldn't make sense of it all if God led us here to this home, and getting robbed and having an unresolved falling out were the only outcomes.

So thank you all for praying. God worked it all out. We have peace and we will not be homeless. :) The emotional roller coaster is over.