What am I doing to reach out and Love them the way Jesus would?  I’m not sure. I know that there is a reason God has put those people in my path. He doesn’t do anything by accident. For me it always helped when someone acknowledged my pain. Mentioned the elephant in the room so to speak 🙂 Love speaks volumes. One thing I will try to do is to pray that I show love the way God models it to us. Sometimes I think we try to make it more complicated than it needs to be. Show love.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love , I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.                                                                   1 Corinthians 13:1-3

So just to prove that God does have a sense of humor, the girl who said “I will never” just had it come back and bite her in the bee-hind AGAIN!” Let me re-cap the last few months for you in case you have forgotten. Recession kicks in, work is very bad for architecture, especially if you are self employed. We find ourselves in a situation we never thought we would be in, dependant on people who love us and the grace of God to survive. I go back to work. We sell our house (which really wasn’t that hurtful, I didn’t transition well to a subdivision). We go through insanity trying to close on the house we bought. And Randy gets a job offer OUT OF TOWN!!! so guess who is moving again? Yep that would be me. Well me and my whole family.
Understand that is said realizing the HOLY and AMAZING GRACE of MY LORD and SAVIOR. I know without a shadow of a doubt that God has held us in his mighty hands the entire time we have struggled. It is only by an act of God that Randy ever got an interview let alone a job offer. We are so grateful to be blessed in this way.
I guess putting Feet to my Faith takes on a whole new meaning. God is so good!

I have this done for the time being. Figuring it all out taxed my puny brain cells to their limit! I know there are still issues with the whole thing but I will figure them out later!
I would love to hear what you think of the page now, please share 🙂

Ok, there are a lot of fun things out there for bloggers. Most however, are probably more tech savy than me so please bear with me as I “fiddle” with how this works!!

And no, I havent found anything amazing in the jungle. I’d love to be there right now, it has to be warmer than here!

I’m tired of my background for the blogpage. I’m thinking maybe I need to figure out how to do that on my own! I’ve seen such neat ones, but I don’t want to pay for it!

Okay so I am a couple days late re posting the cleaner, box less, basement but it really was done on Sunday! I CAN’T believe that we found a place for everything in the house. (If you hadn’t guessed the new house is quite a bit smaller than the old one) Though I guess we really didn’t honestly find a place for everything. I packed 4 or 5 very large boxes of clothes and shoes for Goodwill. You can actually see the floor in our bedroom. I have seriously risked my life getting out of bed in the middle of the night to find the bathroom!
Randy is supposed to start the kitchen this week which be fantastic as only the necessities are unpacked. The pots and pans we must have and 6 plates with assorted plastic cups from restaurants round out our gourmet eating utensils.

On a different note, the sun came out for a short while this morning Yippee!! Probably to celebrate Emma’s 15th birthday which is today. I know, let the cliche’s start, but I can’t believe she is 15!She is a beautiful, funny fantastic girl, and I am blessed to be her mom.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA!

Progress has slowed considerably these days. Randy is working hard to finish plans for my sister-in-law’s remodel. When those are done he will be back to finish ours! We have moved into the basement and the kids rooms upstairs. I’ve got a “kinda” kitchen set up in the basement because I don’t want to unpack boxes upstairs and load cabinets only to unload them a week later to pull the cabinets out!

Since I can’t stand to post pictures of the chaos that is our living space. I am adding some of the property. Again its got lots of potential. Our big outdoor project come spring will be the garden and hopefully fixing the pool, if its fixable. If not I’m going to have the biggest water feature in the neighborhood!

This is the view of the property from the deck. Our property line is in front of the trees you see along the back of the pictures.

This is what I see out the front door. Looking west over the field across the street. I’m hoping for no houses anytime soon. I LOVE the tree in the front yard. I can’t stop taking pictures of it:)

This is the picnic table on the deck. Not a property shot, but it shows how much snow we had! Randy had to take the glass out of the screen door so he could put the snow shovel out and clear a path just to open the door.

This is the sad pool. It hasn’t had a liner in three years we just hope it can be salvaged. It’s so close to the road though that we are going to have to invest in a privacy fence before I will even think about swimming!

And this is the shed. You cant see the fantastic, blacktopped second drive and parking area under all the snow. Just made for parking when all our friends come over.