Mission accomplished: We found a home!

This is a spoiler post, hopefully soon to be followed by pictures of our new place. But people are living there until the end of the month and I just couldn't wait that long to tell you we FOUND A PLACE TO LIVE!!!! After emailing, viewing, calling and, ahem, stalking over 50 places, we mentioned our house hunt to a friend at church who just so happened (what?!) to be renting a picturesque little cottage in a village on the outskirts of Oxford, within our time frame and our price range. That very day, we went over for tea, viewed the house and enjoyed getting to know our church friends a little better. (Did I mention the cottage shares a driveway with their home, which is my dream house (aged timbers, stone walls, cool textures, lots of trees, a lily pond in the garden out back). So the cottage gets cool points just for proximity to our friends AND their amazing home.
I wouldn't say it's perfect ...The cottage doesn't have any closets, and if anyone has to go to the bathroom, you have to take a tour through the entire house, jump over a sleeping baby and waltz through our bedroom to go, but it is perfect for our situation right now and an absolute knock my socks off blessing from the Lord. He has such great timing. There's even a corner store for last-minute groceries, a bus stop and a playground, an old fashioned English Inn/Pub just down the street. We can bike to the city in 15 minutes  and we're super close to a woodsy-looking bike path that has promise (need to buy those bikes soon!).
We walked past the house at twilight last week and listened to the village church bells pealing and the goodnight song of thrushes, breathed in honeysuckle and watched the sun melt like butter and spread out over Port Meadow. What a sense of peace and provision. I look forward to making this place home.