A New Home

Almost 3 weeks ago, we moved from York, Nebraska to Deerfield, Illinois. Jeremy, my husband, is starting school at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) to get his Masters of Divinity (MDiv) and it required a locale change. So here we are.

We were blessed to be able to get campus housing. I was reminded today that there is only a 1 in 3 chance of married students getting on-campus housing. I thank God that He saw fit to put us in that small percentile. :) Anyway, after the prodding of my sister Joy, I have finally decided to post some of our pictures online and write about our new lodging arrangement. We are living in the "D" building. This first picture is the front of our building. There are 5 other buildings similar to ours. Buildings "A", "B", and "C" have one-bedroom apartments and buildings "D", "E", and "F" have two-bedroom apartments. Each building has 8 apartments total, 4 on the bottom and 4 on the upper level, and a basement for storage and laundry. We are fortunate to have a lower level apartment.

The next picture here on the right is one of our apartment. You can see the "D", making it clear that we are, in fact, in the "D" building. Our window is in the left of the picture and our door is on the right hand side of the picture. The little black rectangle on our door indicates that it is Unit D-1.

There are many positives about this apartment. The carpet is brand new, as are the refridgerator and the stove. Since there are two bedrooms, we have one as a guest room/study room (it contains a bed and our desks and storage) and the other is of course used as the master bedroom. The guest room has two clothes closets (yeah!) and the master bedroom has one. The living room is spacious, the dining room is great, and the kitchen is, of course, smaller than I would like. But, there is a walk-in pantry. We also have a coat closet, a linen closet at the end of the hall, and a linen closet in the bathroom. There is plenty of storage, especially considering that there is another bedroom-sized storage room downstairs.

These things are all nice, and we are very appreciative of them, but we are especially thankful for our parking space. In the picture to the left, you can see Celia, our Hyundai Elantra, parked in our very own front-row parking spot. We feel very fortunate to have this particular space because it is several feet wider than the other spaces. I knew you wouldn't believe me if I just told you, so I took photo documentation to prove what I am saying. Take note of our space and the one next to it. We could almost parallel park in our spot. It would be tight, but we just might do it sometime. :)

So we like our apartment and our parking space, but there is just one more benefit of which I think you should be aware. Our apartment is the closest to the laundry room! Here on the right, you can see that our front door is only a few feet away from the stairs that lead to the basement. This makes it very convenient to do laundry.

All in all, we are very happy with our new home. Granted, we will pay more for rent than we even want to know, but God has certainly brought us here and given us great lodging. We are looking forward to how God is going to use and bless this time at Trinity. He has already blessed Jeremy with a job at Panera Bread (but that is a blog for another time) and I'm sure He is going to bring the right job around for me. Praise God for His blessings! :)