God is so good!

We recently took a pretty big loss of income, as well as gained extra bills. It is a scary situation, but we are confident that God is revealing something to us through it. We have had debt from years back that we have paid on here and there, but have never made a priority. We really feel that this is the exact reason that we keep getting knocked to our knee's financially. We are going to do something about it! We are taking the leap, and making a commitment to get it paid off fully! It will take years to do, but we are going to make it happen. I feel really good about this, and I know this is exactly what we need to be doing in our lives at this moment. It is going to mean great sacrifice for our family, but we feel God is calling us to take responsibility for our debt. The debt that we have ignored for so long now. Please pray for us as we undertake this huge task!

My path

I had a reminder tonight of the life path that I choose. When all my high school classmates were in their first semester of college I was getting pregnant. When they had their first summer break from college I was giving birth to my first child. When they were graduating college I was raising a four year old, working two jobs and getting pregnant with my second child. While they were getting their first taste of the real world I was going through a terrible unwanted divorce and about to give birth to that second baby. Not to long after that I came to know Jesus as my savior. I was a single mother working hard to survive on my own. By God's grace a wonderful woman provided more than she knows for my family. While my high school classmates were getting married I was buying my first home as a single mother of two. I had no money, and no real future for my children. The wonderful woman mentioned above gave me an envelope of money. Not just a few bucks or even a few hundred bucks, but a lot of money. It was exactly what I needed at the time to really get started in life. By that token of God's love being handed to me I came to know Christ. You see when she gave me the money she told me that God had come to her in a dream and told her to give me the money. The woman being a survivor of hurricane Katrina, and living in a hotel far away from home really did not have the money to spare. She was devoted to living for Christ and therefore made sure the girl behind the desk that she didn't even know the name of received the money God directed her to give. She did it in a way that I had no choice except to take the money. She left the hotel and I have never heard from her again. She has no idea what she has done for so many souls. By doing what she did I came to know God's love. Now I have a husband, and three children that are all devoted to living life for Christ as Adrienne Miller did/does. My classmates have caught up to me in life many with several children as well. I would never change how I got to the place I am now. I went through much heartache and hard times, but I was shown the love of God in such a way that it was all worth it. My struggles were a direct result of my sin, yet God used my sin to open my heart and through that we are now a family of believers. Thank you Adrienne Miller where ever you are for being a sister in Christ that will stop at nothing to follow him, and win souls!

Finally!

We are now officially moved into the new house! The kids are loving the backyard and the neighborhood kids. I am loving the quiet, and the set up. Peter is loving that he gets to be manly and fix the fence so Paige can't squeeze her little self out of the small opening between the fence post and the house. We still have lots to do to be settled, but our stuff is here lol. Now I just need someone to massage the knots out of my back from all the lifting!

Almost there : )

We get to pick up our keys on Friday afternoon, and start moving on Saturday. I can not wait until we get moved in and the kids can have a back yard to play in. My friend told me a few days ago that just when we are getting moved it is going to start getting cold. I told her I will buy them snow suits! I am so looking forward to being able to say "go play in the back yard". I haven't minded apartment life so much, but I will enjoy that fenced in yard. In the mean time our house is insane! We have boxes every where the couch is pushed up 3 ft from the TV so we could fit all the beds behind it. I didn't realize how much stuff we still have until now. The last move was within the apartment complex and it was easy to move a little at a time so I just didn't see all the boxes stacked up like it is now. Doing laundry today then we will move the washer/dryer for easy access on moving day. Thanks to some good friends that are going to help me this week I can get some things out of the way before the trailer comes for the bigger items. The visit with my mom went really good. The kids were so excited to see her, and so was I! We even had mommy's day out and I spent the morning and afternoon out with my mom then the evening out with the hubs. It was just what the doctor ordered!

My mommy is coming!

Today my mom is coming and the kids have no idea. She is going to pick up pizza on the way here and knock on the door like the pizza guy. I am going to tell the kids this afternoon that my back is killing me and I just can't cook! : ) I can't wait.

Moving day is fast approaching

We are moving in 2 weeks from today. I have packed 2 boxes. This is not going very smoothly! lol Really we don't have much stuff, but I need boxes so I can go ahead and pack what we do have. I went through the kids clothes today and filled 2 garbage bags up with give away items. I also managed to get all the pictures off of the walls, and nails out. We managed to empty one shelf on the books shelf and get that packed (thats the 2 boxes). The last couple of moves I made sure we had everything packed the week before the move, but at this rate I don't see that happening. The good thing is that we have an entire month to move all of it out and to clean this place. We are planning to move all the big things on the 2nd and if I have to take little things later then so be it. Hopefully I can get most of the little things moved on the 1st so that moving the big things will be easier. I am just tired of moving. This makes the 3rd move in just over a year. I want to know where we are going to be so we don't have to keep moving. At the same time I find it fun to go to different places. Who knows where we will be in a year, or two...

Sick and moving

Paige and I have been sick for almost a week now. I am tired of feeling yucky! On a good note we are getting the house we were hoping for. Soon we will have a yard for our kids to play in and a cheaper place to live that is nicer than where we are now. Not that we are in something bad now, just expensive for an apartment in this area. We are ready to have a yard again, and be able to sleep at night without hearing people over our heads! Apartment life has not been bad, and we were pretty fortunate to get decent neighbors here. It will be better to have a house with all the amenities of an apartment. We will have an olympic sized pool with slides, and diving boards. We will have really nice parks for the kids to play at without leaving the neighborhood. We will have a lot of home schooling neighbors since we are moving to a military housing unit. We will still have 24 hour maintenance, as well as lawn service. I didn't realize I wanted to live in a house again so much until the chance at it came up. Now I can't wait! Just 3 weeks away now. : )