Moving Into A Sublet

First off, let me assure you that we have moved on from Thailand's burning season and into the HOT season.  Thankfully the sky's are much clearer these days, but the temperature has reached well over 100F degrees every day.  You know it's super hot out when you are sweating and turning on the air conditioning when you are first waking up in the morning.

This week our family moved into a sublet home here in Chiang Mai, Thailand.  We will be in this home for the next 3 months while the family that actually lives here is visiting their family in America.  Subletting a house here is a pretty "normal" practice for families on both sides of the sublet.  Many families live here for years & will return "home" (wherever that may be) up to 1 year, during that time they usually sublet their home to us "short-termers" as not to loose their lease & have to move out their belongings.  Ever since meeting the family that lives in this house, we have been blessed by the relationship.  They are a truly amazing Godly family, and will be celebrating 20 years of marriage during their time away!

One of the perks of this house is that we now have 2 new members of our family, well 4 if you count the 2 turtles.  Here they are!

Sarah

&

Bella

Sheraz really enjoys having dogs, but we just haven't been stable enough to take on the task of having a pet. So having these 2 beautiful dogs have been great for all of us.  They are wonderfully trained and great around the kids, so an easy fit into our family.

We had to make the bitter sweet decision to move out of our first house.  As much as we have really liked living in that house, we decided to move due to our landlords’ failure to hold up his end of our lease by fixing household items.  Without going into too much of the details, the main appliance to not work (and we realized that he had no plan to replace for us) is the washing machine.  It is an old machine and worked okay for about the first month, worked with much hesitation for the second through fourth month, and after a little flooding episode…I had to take the laundry to go to a laundry facility.  As most of you know we use cloth diapers, so add this with a family of 5 having a washing machine is a necessity of everyday life.  


Also, the upside to subletting is that we know have a stove & oven, closets to unpack into, kitchen full of utensils for cooking / baking / everyday life, and of course...a Washing Machine!