My heart will trust in You

There is a lot going on!

I have written about the plans of moving to Alabama on here before. That's why I am visiting there every so often, to get to know the area better before moving there.

Well our time line is still about a year to a year and a half until we move. But some new things happened that put my parents there sooner. I don't know if I wrote about my parent's house being bought by the county, to expand a road they live on that is getting backed up and crowded. Well almost a year ago they received the first letter about it. So it was a waiting game for months and months. But that is what helped spark the idea of moving to Alabama. My parent's mortgage was way too high for the to easily keep up with. The housing boom doubled most of house prices around here. They wanted to buy a house and unfortunately they didn't until after the book started. But still, God was in all of this.

After only living in their house for about 8 months, is when they got the first letter about the county wanting to possibly buy their house. The county had to decide which side of the road to buy. At first they were freaked out. But then , they started realizing that the county would have to given them money above their mortgage, and that this was actually a financial help to them, or else they'd be stuck with their large mortgage forever.

We actually prayed a lot that the county would choose to buy their side of the road. And months later, the county announced just that! Then they had to wait for news of offers. They started realizing that if they moved to Alabama, they'd be able to buy a house with the profit they would get, and have hardly any mortgage and be financially much better. And the way my dad's job is, he can do it anywhere.

So now they already have the offer from the county, which they had to negotiate, and can stay in their house 9 months rent free! The county will own the house, but since they don't have to knock it down yet, they are letting people stay in them for a certain amount of time. So after 9 months, my parent's have to move to AL so they don't have to rent here for a couple months. That will probably be in January sometime. So now it's like, everything is really happening. And it's scary and exciting. Of course Sujeet and I will not be ready to leave that soon. We have to sell our house and we don't want to even put it up for sale until maybe Jan or Feb. It could take awhile to sell because of the slow housing market. Bla! But I guess I have to trust God.

Sujeet also wanted to think about moving up there, as the house prices were so low, and yet in Birmingham the pay scale was as good as in Tampa for his type of job. We could reduce our mortgage payment by at least 1/2, while making about the same amount of money. It would open up so many doors for us.

At first I was nervous thinking about Alabama, the real South. Not like in Florida where we live, which you could call "little NY" or "Little Italy" haha. But on each trip to AL, I have seen Indian people. That reassured me a lot, to know Sujeet won't completely stick out. I hardly saw any rednecks while in AL either. I see more in Florida than I did in AL.

Ok that was long!

But I wanted to say the news about the shootings at Virginia Tech is very sad. I pray for all the families affected by this.