Our totally random spontaneous trip to Tennessee

On Friday January 22nd we decided to take a trip to Tennessee, I know it seems very random. We have been talking for the last several months about moving to Tennessee and starting a chicken and organic vegetable farm. Brokton has been having a very hard time in the city, we feel he would do much better with several acres to run with the birds and the wild animals. As I had said in our previous post about our trip to the farm Brokton did very well he was very calm and seemed to be in a very comfortable place. We have been doing a lot of praying, fasting and pondering on this issue as this will be a major change in our lives.


As crazy as this sounds we have to do what is best for our family, we realize that we will be walking away from a really great job with consistent pay and benefits but our family comes first over any job, fancy house or other worldly things. We are out of debt except for our house. We will be unable to sell our house as we are upside down by about $40,000.00 we will be using money from Steven's 401k to buy property and a house out right, we know this is for our retirement but property is a very good investment. We have had a lot of spiritual experiences as we have prayed about this change, for those of you who understand the power of prayer this will be something you can understand.



As a side note when Steven came back to work after our trip the company had gone and laid off the whole merchandising department and administrative assistants for all of the district managers. This was done with only about a days notice to those involved. The company is doing more with the Senior sales reps giving them more responsibilities so it looks like they will not be needing as many Asst managers.

Here are some pictures from our totally random spontaneous trip to Tennessee