No Cat, New Home

Melchizedek (Chiz) Thai Wildauer found a new castle with a loving servant.  Melchizedek was a king in the Bible and our cat took that seriously. Well, sort of. Melchizedek means “King of Righteousness.” Chiz the cat had the “king” part down, but not so much the “righteousness.” Chiz was always ordering us to give him something, be it attention or food—he was sure to let his servants know.  It took us a long time to find the right servant for him.  We thought of many possibilities, but they all ended up having dogs or allergies and Chiz would have none of that.  After six months of searching, we found him a servant who was willing to change her life for him, new job, new town, and new castle just to care for Chiz.  Purrrfect!

Micah handing Melchizedek over to his new servant, Pam Rudick

Annie will be the hardest to leave behind.  Annie is our house that we bought after getting married in 2008.  Shortly after moving in we realized that our address was our wedding anniversary.  2808 W Juneau, we were married the 28th of June in 08.  Annie was built in 1910 as a beautiful Victorian and she’s still beautiful today with all her wood work and built-in china cabinet.  We will most definitely miss our old Annie.  We had looked forward to raising our family in this house for many more years, but it is time to say goodbye.

Possibly our last family picture in front of Annie

As for all of our eclectic possessions that have filled Annie over the past six years, I have no problem with--and am very much looking forward to–selling and donating them.  We will have an Estate Sale, September 5 & 6, with all proceeds going directly to our account to support us while in the field.  After the sale on the 6th we will have a group come and help us box up the rest and take it to a resale shop.

Our little family 4 years ago, taken before going home from the hospital.  

Happy "4th" Birthday, Samuel Blaise!

The next two weeks will be very crazy getting the house ready for realtor pictures, celebrating Samuel’s 4th birthday, setting up for the Estate Sale and moving everything out, not to mention moving our family to a new house.  Yesterday, Micah and I were going to look at apartments to rent through the end of December. Well, we ended up hitting dead ends at all of them.  Even though we searched for apartments with short term lease options, none of the apartments would lease for less than six months.  While we were out and about looking for an apartment we heard back from a service team member at Greenfield Park Lutheran Church regarding their parsonage, which is currently vacant.  All within a few hours we were able to look at the house and get the thumbs up from the service team to rent, then further news that they would let us stay there without rent for the next four months.  Truly a blessing!  We went from zero leads on a place to live for the next four months, to having a great house with more than enough space, along with appliances.  I’m pretty sure God answers prayers!

Our home for September through December

As if we don’t have enough to do in Milwaukee, we are going to Indiana for the weekend  to celebrate Samuel’s birthday with family.  Of course there’s another reason for going to Indiana and it’s not just that Micah will be presenting at Shepherd by the Lakes Lutheran in Syracuse, IN on Sunday morning.  The main reason for going to Indiana is for Micah to indulge in one last Notre Dame football game at the stadium before leaving the country.  I think above all else of material desire, Micah will miss watching Notre Dame football games the most.

Notre Dame Opening Day 2011

If it seems that this blog was all out of order, well that’s because that is how life is right now!  I typed up this schedule for the next two weeks to keep my head on straight, we’ll see how in-line it will remain.  Prayers for sanity and well behaved kids over the next two weeks would be greatly appreciated.

	Morning	Afternoon & Evening
Wed. Aug 27	library, grocery shopping	mow, outside work, move stuff
Thurs. Aug 28	clean, Newsletter mailing	clean, sort & pack for Bremen
Fri. Aug 29	drive to Bremen	Bremen HS Football game
Sat. Aug 30	fun w/ cousins all day	Micah-ND game
Sun. Aug 31	church, lunch, Sam’s b-day	fireworks
Mon. Sept 1	parade	drive home
Tues. Sept 2	get ready for pictures	get ready for pictures
Wed. Sept 3	11am realtor pictures	get ready for sale
Thurs. Sept 4	get ready for sale	get ready for sale
Fri. Sept 5	sale	sale
Sat. Sept 6	sale	pack & move stuff to donate
Sun. Sept 7	church	rest
Mon. Sept 8	move to parsonage	clean house
Tues. Sept 9	rest	Brewer’s Game