Getting ready to move

In 3 days time, we’re moving house. We’re upsizing to a nice 3 bed end-terrace house in Knightswood. But it’s a huge move for a couple of reasons:

1. I’ve lived in Glasgow for 14 years now. This is the first time I will have lived outside the Scotstoun/Whiteinch area (1 year in Scotstoun, 13 years in 5 flats in Whiteinch). It may only be 2.6 miles (as the Google drives) from our current flat, but it feels like a lot further when you’ve lived in flats all with a mile radius of each other.

2. Although 2.6 miles isn’t all that far, it’s not reasonably walkable, especially with small children. (Not impossible, I grant you, but not ideal). But most of our friends, and most of the things we go to, are still in Whiteinch. This will probably mean that the bike will get more usage for going to meetings and the like.

3. We’ve been married 11 years, and we’ve spent 5 of them in this flat.

4. Both our children were born while we were living in this flat.

5. We’ve not had a window in the bathroom for the last 10 years! (Nobody seems to understand how significant this is….)

6. Lastly, and, I suspect, most importantly, this is very much an investment in a number of ways. We’re obviously investing financially, and this will require a certain amount of rejuggling. Also, though, we’re investing in our future and the future of our children – we don’t expect to be moving again (God willing) for a number of years, and so this house will be the house that our kids grow up in, and probably the one they will remember the most. And we’re investing spiritually in both our ministries – looking to make more space for hospitality for starters, but also a better living space for us to live and work in. With Heather’s work with Source kicking off, things for her (and consequently for the rest of us) could well be changing significantly in the next few months.

So – looking forward to it, but with a certain awareness of changing times. House warming party will follow At Some Point (TM)…

mrBen