January 2011 and a New House - ACASA!

 When we first saw this house it was freezing cold!  The heat was off and it hadn't been lived in for six months.  I was impressed with the size not so impressed with the temperature and in all honesty it took me awhile to "warm" up to this house.  It is huge and I felt in many ways like it might be too big for us to live in while serving overseas.  You know the whole suffering missionary doesn't fit when you live in such a nice house.  Though the rent was less than what the people are paying back home to rent our house and this house is bigger.



The owner is a Pastor who is living in the South of Moldova and our rent helps support his ministry there.


Costs for renting an apartment which wouldn't have the yard or the space can be as expensive or more.

All around us here in the capital of Moldova are large houses.  Many people have a small house and a big house on the property.  They live in the small house through the winter and move into the big house during the summer months.   Our lot isn't any different we actually share our garden with two other houses.  You can just see the side of it to the right of the photo above.

The biggest problems with these big houses is heating them.  Our rent is great but heating this house in the winter isn't the cheapest thing.


 The living room in this house was designed with the idea of holding church services in it.  We haven't had a church service here yet, but we have  hosted a few gatherings for our Love Moldova teams and have people over often.

As the house heated up so did our fondest for it.  We don't see ourselves staying in this house the entire time we are here in Moldova but for now it is home and we are enjoying the blessing that God decided to give us for our time in it.  It has been nice for Wesley to have his own bedroom for the first time in his life and the girls are enjoying a messy bedroom of their own.

 The spiral staircase was what sold Tony on this house as it reminded him of the house he grew up in.  They had a spiral staircase and in sharing this aspect with his own children he is very happy about that.  We have only had a couple of nasty falls on these stairs and the kids are quite capable of flying up and down them.









The kitchen always gets interesting comments when people come over.  It has an Italian feel to it and the kids enjoy helping mom by standing on the handy bench.  It is by far the most interesting kitchen I have ever had.

What it lacks in cupboard space it makes up for in character.
The stonework though isn't the easiest thing to clean.






I think that the room I like the best is the bedroom which we use as our school room.  Having schooled out of a two room cabin, a small apartment and my dining room - it is so nice to have a room set aside to school in.  At the end of our school day I can shut the door and be "done" for the day.  Though our school room has a multi-functional feature as the playroom as well and the kids spend a lot of their time playing in there as.  Keeps most of the mess out of the living room which is a great benefit.