Hi y'all Happy New Year!! As we turn the page to the year 2024, I pray that El Elyon, God Most High, be with you in everything you do and everything you hope for in this new year.
So we are officially retired - now what? We have waited with great expectation and anticipation for this day to come and now that it's here, we went straight to work even harder to prepare the house for the market. We have three full balikbayan boxes all ready to ship to the Philippines and we still have some stuff that we need to pack and ship. We have slowly cleared some of our stuff out of the house, some are in my booth at Owl's Nest hoping to sell them, some are donated to Goodwill, some are in the trash bin ready for the landfill, some are priced ready for the "moving sale" that we plan once we sell the house. We invited a friend (a single mom) over, who is moving to her own place to see if there is anything she need, so there are small furniture that we will deliver to her place toward the end of this month.
We have made huge progress in the last two weeks. We will paint part of the basement and install new blinds on the windows then we will meet with our realtor. This funny de-ja-vu feeling of being homeless again when the house gets sold is surreal. We have done this before in 2015 when we sold everything and moved to the Philippines so I could be with my mother - and now here we are doing the same thing all over again. But this time to retire to the Philippines, and this time we have a house of our own waiting for us when we get there.
Anyway, in all these life journeys, God is, was and will be there with us. Some nights before I fall asleep and before I rise up in the morning I always begin my prayer with "Lord, through all the generations you have been our home. Before the mountains were created, before you made the earth and the world, you are God, without beginning or end." (Psalm 90:1-2 NLT) No matter where we may go, to live, to settle or whatever, the Lord Most High, El Elyon will always be our home. I pray you will make Him your home too in 2024. Blessings to y'all!
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So we are officially retired. Our next chapter will be as retirees preparing to move to the Philippines. We hope you continue to follow us on this new life journey with us.
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