After having lived in Idaho, Utah, AZ, TX, OK, I always longed to move back to Indiana. My family is here, I love having all four seasons! I also appreciate the good schools in Fishers and now here in Brownsburg. I love the rain, the lack of scorpions and fire ants. You can actually walk barefoot in the grass without getting stung by something! Also-- there is grass!! And not spiky thorns or crunchy sharp rocks! All these little things I missed.
The biggest plus is being near family. My sister Mindy wasn’t born until I was 14, and so I feel like I missed so much of her life. Now she’s driving and so old at 16! But It’s not too late to bond with her more before she graduates in a couple years 😭.
How it all started
Richard was notified by a colleague at work about an opportunity in Indianapolis to be a medical recruiter back in October 2018. I guess they had a hard time filling the position with someone from the nursing Corp so they desperately decided to open the position up to the dental Corp. We prayed about the opportunity and immediately he applied. Then, a couple weeks later, they turned him down saying a nurse was chosen. After the sad news, Richard prayed directly for a miracle. He said, "Heavenly Father I am asking for a miracle for our family to live closer to Kristi’s parents and grandparents." He then sent a lengthy email describing how qualified and eager he was for the position, EVEN THOUGH he just finished a 2 year residency and would not be using his new found dental skills as a medical recruiter. He described how living in Indy would be a blessing to our family as well.
Well, the miracle came. The next day, he got a call telling us the nurse failed the background check and so they were officially extending the position to him, pending a thorough background check on him. We patiently waited a couple more weeks to see if his credentials would be approved and they were!
We got orders to Indianapolis. The Army packed up our Oklahoma home after just 6 short months of us living there, and during the Christmas break we moved in with my parents with our belongings held in storage. We house hunted and found a clean, affordable rental home in a great neighborhood with its own park just down the street. We are a short drive from my parents and the great grandmas, the airport, and downtown.
Prior to the news of the Indy position being open, we had some experiences that, now looking back, make us feel like the Lord was guiding us and preparing us for this miracle.
For instance, we were planning on purchasing a home in Oklahoma, and putting a down payment on this lovely home on one acre of land. I was going to have chickens and a big garden.
But, after taking a Self Reliance finance class through church, we decided that our savings should be kept as a 6 month emergency fund and we shouldn’t buy a home we’d just live in for 3 years at the most. We also tracked our expenses and really focused on looking at our money as the Lord’s money and tried to be more spiritually minded when it came to our finances through this group. We became close friends with the 6 group members that met with us every Sunday night to go over that week’s lesson. It is similar to Dave Ramsay’s Financial Peace University course. It also promises that you’ll be blessed by praying as a couple and by paying tithing, and by tracking your expenses and paying off debt. After six weeks of doing the program, we felt we were directly blessed with the opportunity to move to Indiana, and with no financial strings attached to the home we did not end up buying. I have a testimony of the benefits of this class specifically and I recommend it to anyone no matter how successful you may be financially. It was a great way to reflect on how our resources are the Lord’s and we are just stewards.
And so, we are here! Our girls took a bit to adjust to all the change, especially Abby switching schools mid-year. Renee’s preschool I’m OK was closing ironically which was sad. I see my parents and sister, both my grandma Schwartz and grandma Mathews on a weekly basis, we get complimentary babysitting sometimes, and even when a Richard goes out of town to recruit I don’t mind because I won’t be lonely with family just a 7 minute drive away. ❤️❤️❤️
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