Our New Home: A Promise Fulfilled

We've finally moved to our new home! Yehey! Praise God!

That's one of the reasons that I have not updated by blog for quite some time. First, we moved out of our remaining condominium unit which we rented out to a student. Then, we moved temporarily to a house near our real house so we can monitor the construction and finishing closely. Then, we moved into the house that God promised to give to our family around a year ago. God is so good! He has fulfilled His promise! He has been true to His Word as usual. :)

Most of our things are still in boxes and are waiting to be unpacked. But let me share about the things that I'm grateful for today on our third day in our new home.

1. I'm thankful that we were able to go to Mass last Sunday as a family in the church near our house.

Our first daily Mass as a family in the church nearby.

2. I'm thankful that we were able to go to daily Mass yesterday as a family for the first time.

3. I'm thankful that we have a much bigger house to clean and fix.

4. I'm grateful that the basic things we ordered to furnish our new house (like the new mattress we ordered from Mandaue Foam) arrived on the same day that we moved in. We're actually not yet done finding the right furnishings for our house. But we love it just the same. We're so happy to sleep in it already.

5. I'm thankful that we have a small garden at the back of our house. This is now part of my eldest son's daily duties. He takes care of watering the plants. He loves doing it! And I'm excited to buy and take care of more flowering plants especailly orchids.

6. I'm grateful that we now have our own garage where we can park our SUV (Innova). We used to rent a parking slot when we were staying in our condominium.

7.  I'm thankful that we now have a new maid. I hope she stays with us for a long time. She arrived yesterday afternoon. At least now we have someone to help us fix the house and do some chores.

8. I'm grateful that we found an affordable dining set at a mall in Alabang a few days before we moved in and that it was delivered for free. I'm also grateful that its design matched the design of our light fixtures in the dining area and in the sala.

9. I'm grateful that we have a service/laundry area on the ground floor of our house now and it can serve as drying area for our clothes. In our condominium before, the drying cages for our clothes are on the 5th floor of our building.

10. I'm grateful that in spite of our busyness in moving and fixing our new house, I am still able to work from home and homeschool our kids.

The vehicles and shapes Yanthy drew
on a Manila paper on top of one of our boxes.
Homeschooling while preparing for our move.



Yanthy's 10 spiders

11. I'm grateful that God sustained and continues to sustain me and my husband physically as we do chores at home (especially while we did not have a maid yet) and at work.

12. I'm grateful that God forced us out of our comfort zone to bring us to where we are right now. Because of this new adventure with God, we have grown much in faith.

Our family in front of our townhouse.

I have more to be thankful for but I will stop here for now. I just want to give back the glory to God for all these wonderful blessings and answered prayers. If not for His grace and provision, we wouldn't be living in our new house now and enjoying God's favors.

Let me share this song that has always been one of my favorites. This song helps me be reminded of the truth that miracles do happen when we believe in God's promises.