What happened to the last 10 days?!?!?
Seriously!
It just doesn’t feel like it yet.
I need a monkey to get me into the Christmas spirit.
I need a monkey to get me into the cookie baking mode.
I need a monkey to sing Christmas songs with.
I need a monkey that will dance with me as we listen to
Muppets Christmas.
I need a monkey to call me “Kitchen goddess” and
worship me….hee hee
Natalie…i need you.
I’m really counting down the days till my sister arrives so..only 7 days!!!
yay!
Wha?! Holy cow it’s almost Christmas!
And 2010 is right around the corner. I know it’s coming but it will still scare me when it gets here. Just like when you know someone is hiding around the corner ready to jump out but you still jump and let out a yelp when they do.
But for know I am mostly excited about decorating and baking cookies. We will slowly decorate the house. Probably room by room until my sister, Natalie, gets here.
Natalie doesn’t get here until December 24th. And since the best part of Christmas is the company and held out traditions, we will be starting our count down to Christmas once Natalie arrives. We will pull out the years of ornaments and swap stories of the memories attached to each one. We will bake cookies and decorate them. And yes, even the boys will participate. We will go to the theater and see our Christmas movie. And all the while we will play Christmas music and sing and dance around. Because that’s how we roll.
If there is snow we will go out side and make snow angels. Maybe even build snow creatures and spray them with colored water. I also plan to watch every Christmas movie we own.
It probably won’t feel much like Christmas until Natalie and Nathanael are here.
What other kind of traditions are there? Sometimes I wonder what others do. One girl at work said her family is Cecelian and so they sit around and eat and get drunk. Ha!
Well here’s hoping you all are having a fun count down to Christmas!
I do love Michigan. Not the football team…The State.
It’s good to be back. It’s cold but I love it. I hope to hit Spicer’s Apple Orchard soon. It’s perfect weather for that.
I have already seen family and gotten to hang out with old friends. I got to scrap book with my Aunt, i see one of my cousins everyday, and yesterday another one of my cousins stopped by and i got to see one of his kids. I love being back!
Then I’ve got two wedding coming up and some showers and babies on the way!
Ahhh…Michigan. How I have missed you and the joys you bring. Thanks God.
Yay!
So we are here in sweet Howell, Michigan.
Still Job hunting but things are promising. We thought Best Buy was a bust when Josh called and they told him the position had been filled but it turns out he might still be able to get a job there. If not, he is applying at BOSE and Journey’s so…that’s good. I am applying at Harry & David’s, rue21, Icing, and Bath & Body Works. Cross your fingers for me!
3 days and 8 hours to go!
So it’s official.
Joshua and I are moving to Howell, Michigan this Friday.
Yes, THIS Friday. As in October 2nd.
So we start the countdown.
4 Days and 3 Hours…
Well, by now you know me well. I am going to turn a simple little,short story into a long, elaborate one. Read on…if you have the time…lol
We have been trying to sell our house since about March. We ended up renting it out, ourselves, to a few young men in April. They soon found out it was too much for them and moved out in July.We figured our renting days were over and just really wanted to sell it. We had Steve from Accent Realtors come and look at the house. Accent Realtor guarantees they will sell your home in 90 days or they will buy it. Good deal I thought! But we soon realized we could not even afford the closing costs so selling our house seemed to be out of reach. But Steve told us about Patty, who also works for Accent Realtors. She heads up the Property Management department. Josh and I were nervous about renting but we met Patty out at our house and felt much better. Patty is a very nice lady who has been doing what she does for over 15 years. We felt very comfortable putting our trust in her. So we signed the paperwork, gave her a key and they are doing all the work. YAY!
But now about the picture…
Well the house had been empty and cleaned (thanks to Ben,Rick,and Cori’s help!) since July but we still had a garage full of both our things and some furniture that had been left behind by our previous renters. Patty said we needed to get that stuff out as soon as we could. The problem there being we had NO money to rent a truck and storage unit. We thought we might ask to borrow a van from some friends but their van started making strange noises and was out of commission. And we thought we had a place to store our stuff but that didn’t work out either. I was in tears…I was going to my own blog every day and reading my own post on trust. Reminding myself that I needed to trust in God when things were good AND when they were not.
Josh and I went into Patty’s office to give her the house key and told her we didn’t know when we could get our stuff out because we had no vehicle to move it. She looks at us for only a moment and asks the receptionist if their truck is available. Josh and I were like…huh?! She says, oh yeah we have a moving truck and that’s what it’s for. She reserved it for us for the following Thursday . As we waited for Thursday to come we frantically look for a storage unit under$60 and try and figure out how we will even pay for that! Josh has a brilliant idea and we head to guitar center to sell his massive guitar pedal and my PowerPuff Girl, MOJO JOJO, Daisey Rock guitar. We got $70 for them. Not as much as we’d hoped but enough for 1st months rent on a unit! Then last minute, Thursday afternoon, I found a storage place near our house that’s only $55. Period.
So in the end we got a free moving truck, and a storage unit for under $60 AND the money to pay for it.
Boy oh boy, do I trust in Him.
He never fails. Some times He waits till the very last moment, almost to the point of it being too late…and then in a flash it’s all taken care of. I think He likes to make sure we REALLY do FULLY trust in Him and He has to test us sometimes. And not always for Himself…but also for us.
09.06.09
God’s word for me today.
trust.
Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to take Him at His word.
Just to rest upon His promise
Just to know.
I’m so glad I’ve learned to trust Him.
So the other day Josh & I had the day off so we ran some errands that brought bad news and sort of got us down. We happened to be by a Stein Mart and had never been in one so we stopped. We thought we’d do some window shopping. After all, when it comes to window shopping, we are pros.
We’re walking around and Josh says he’s thirsty. then this is what I thought I hear him say…” So I might need a drink…and food…and Ben…”
I laughed. He was like what?! I asked him if he really missed Ben that much. confusion followed.
See…what Josh had actually said was “So I might need a drink…and food…and then…”
Okay so maybe it’s not that funny but after the day we had just had it really lifted our spirits.
oh and then on the way out I saw a sweater and asked Josh what it reminded him of. at the same time he said a sheep. I said Katy.
I guess we both missed Ben & Katy.
Middle schol art…that I did last month. LOL
My mom used to teach art when I was in middle school. I remember a lot of the differant things she taught. One impaticular was this squiggle one.
We wouldplace our pencil on the page and then, with our eyes closed , draw all over the page till she said stop. Then you connect the starting point to the end one. Then it was time to find the picture in the squiggles. Once you found it you would outline it with a black marker then color it in.
You should try it. It’s really fun.
