That is what it is: SWEET!! We love our new place! It is so strange to say that, "our new place". It is everything I could ask for. I'm exhausted from continuing to unpack and sort through and organize, but I couldn't be happier. Last night Jeff and I sat on our private back deck and watched the kids play in the incredible yard. Then we joined them for a game of baseball. So much fun and all I could think about is that we would have nights like those all summer long in our very own place.
The closing went so smoothly, nothing like the SC ordeal that I have tried to bury in history. It made our move to Thomasville so complete. I don't know why the process had to take so long, but the joy in my heart now overshadows the rocky road that led here.
The kids are enjoying the uniqueness of their own spaces. I did their bedrooms to fit their personalities and it has been great to see them having fun with their rooms. I am currently organizing my school space and laundry/craft room. Jeff will be starting to organize his workshop today and I am so thrilled for him to have that.
God has blessed us so much in this home and we are so grateful.
I have to put a shout out for everyone who has sweat for us over here helping us to make this place our home. We truly have incredible friends!!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
............Not a rental, but a HOME!
Today we get the keys to our new place. It is like Christmas in my heart. I couldn't sleep last night waiting for the morning to come. I couldn't force myself to try to sleep anymore past 6 am. So much is stirring in my mind. Mostly the fact that today I will have access to a place that is really mine. I will paint what ever colors I want. I will make changes to suit our family and I won't have to check with a landlord first. I will stand in a home and not a rental, and it will be my own family's home. Why is this so important to me? I am a homemaker. This is what I have been called to be. And today I will gain full reign in a home I can make my own. My heart leaps at the thought of all I can do for Jeff, Cody, and Macie in this place. So much I have wanted for them over the past 2 years, but didn't have the freedom to do. So many times the kids have sacrificed, without complaint, as we have uprooted them again and again. In this home, God has granted us back all that we left behind and more (in our old home). I can hardly imagine what today will be like as my friends and I prepare this place for our future there. I can't wait to see all that we own, all that came with us to this town, things we haven't seen in 2 years b/c it has been in storage. Jeff, the kids, and I will be reacquainted with hobbies we haven't been able to enjoy, pictures we have missed on our walls, and memories we stored away for awhile. I am rejoicing today!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Birthday Girl
Eight years I have had with this monkey! She hoots and hollers like one. She jumps around and goofs off like one. And she makes a racket when she doesn't get what she wants like one. Yep! She is a monkey in disguise. But I could not love and adore her anymore. She is the most fun to be with. I have learned so much about life and God from being her mom. Here is a list of things I've noticed lately about her:
Definitely has a motherly instinct beneath that tough outer core.
Is an evangelist at heart.
Desperately wants to please us and God and is trying diligently to make good choices.
Looks really cute in pigtails.
Can catch fish like nobody's business.
Is more amazing than ever (that's a daily development)!
I love her intensely. I can't wait to see what God has planned for her. She could change the world!
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