Goodbye apartment

09/29/09

This is one of the last pictures I have of Clara in our apartment.  Just about the only thing I miss is the beautiful natural light in the kitchen and her nursery. 

God blessed us with a rental home that we moved into in mid-October.  Clara was a real trooper as we looked at many houses in September.  She became obsessed with sockets, probably because of all the empty homes we looked at and their increased prominence in unfurnished rooms.  In fact as we would pray and thank God for providing this home for us, she would thank God for the sockets!

She also was very cooperative as we went back and forth between the apartment and house packing and cleaning.  She had a cold during the big moving push and though I had arranged for her to stay with friends for the day several times, she ended up coming along with us.  I actually think that seeing the process helped her adjust.  She still refers to our home as ‘the new house’ and says ‘Goodbye, new house!’ each time we leave.