Tuesday, May 1, 2018

RV living.

So I guess we should really start from the beginning of where our current adventure began! My husband, myself and our 2 dogs Drake and Sadie lived in the same home for 11 years. It had been on the market for sale several different times with no interest whatsoever. However late 2017 we had an offer to buy it. We just had to wait for tax time to come around for closing. So we prepared for our home to sale. As the time neared we were unsure what we were going to do. We wanted land, to hunt, homestead and to eventually build our forever home on. So unsure what we were going to do we knew that we would have a hard time getting into an apartment, or rental home, due to having 2 large dogs. So we decided that buying an RV was the best thing for us. We figured we could live in it for awhile, buy our land, build our home and than have the RV somewhere else on the property for friends  and family to come stay in.  However the old saying came to mind if you want to hear God laugh tell him your plans. We fell in love with a couple pieces of property that we could see our future on like building our home, fishing the pond, homesteading, and hunting the whitetail deer that left their mark by the big trails they left behind. However once we secured the money and put offers in they never seemed to work out. They either already had a contract on them or had a verbal contract that the real estate agent knew nothing about. We felt defeated and like maybe our dreams just were not going to happen. I was hoping and praying for land to raise chickens and cows to homestead, and those dreams just seemed to get farther and farther away.  The beginning of March we started to live in our RV full time, and realized there were some major adjustments to be made. For example, timing your shower just right so you would have enough hot water, emptying the black water (its what you probably imagine it is), making sure your propane didn't run out, having 2 dogs on a leash all the time, small space with 2 large dogs who are not sure what in the world is going on, and just general decluttering because it was such a smaller space than our home.  After much frustration with work changes for my husband and I, we decided we needed a change. We no longer had that house tying us down or a lease so we were free to go wherever we wanted. So we started looking into options. We looked into travel nursing with 13 weeks assignments. We actually were thinking of going to Velphoro GA. The application was in and we honestly were just praying and deciding if this was the right thing for us. In the meantime Jeff updated his resume online and got a call from a recruiter about a job in Killeen Texas. Initially he said no that's to permanent and to far from our family.  A few days later the owner of that company called and said I've seen your resume I think you will be a great asset to our company. This interested Jeff that the owner called. I had already found a clinic with the same company I worked for and knew I would have a job. So we came down to Texas on a Monday and did interviews on Tuesday.  By that following Monday we had our 2 week notices in and were preparing to move to Texas. Also in this time frame of preparing to move Sadie had ruptured her cruciate in her knee which required surgery. So she actually got her stitches out the day before we were leaving for Texas, If we would have leased a house or an apartment or bought a house we would not have been able to make the move so quickly. All of this would not have been possible if the timing had not been made right by the man upstairs. He knew what we needed we just had to wait for his plan to show itself.

1 comment:

  1. Cierra - I have been reading your commentary on your adventurous move. I really enjoy them. Hope you can find the time to keep writing them. Linda

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