Coming in for a Landing

By Jonathan Lightfoot

From my husband’s blog:

Well, it looks like our days of roaming hotels after the fire may be coming to an end.

We still have a long ways to getting back into our house. cleanup and restoration are just starting to truly get underway. But in the meantime it looks like we will soon have that interim place to stay while we do work on that massive project.

An unexpected offer from generous and nearby friends will allow us to stay in (rent) their basement while we work on the task. And since they are going to need longer than originally estimated to fit out their basement for our use, they are even offering to give us rooms on their main floor to stay in while they finish their renovations. It will mean another temporary phase of transitions before landing in our new digs, but will give our son the private space he has been deprived of since the fire, forced into close proximity with his parents for most of his non-working hours.

And this place will also be just a little more than half a mile from our house we need to work on, which will make it easier to get back and forth to do the work, and allow us to keep the same local stores and recreational activities that we are used to.

It sounds almost too perfect to be true. I am sure there will be a minor rough spot or two, but those are always opportunities to learn more about each other, and to understand each other better — if we all stay wise enough to realize we aren’t adversaries but allies.

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