Can I Get a Buyer... Please!

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My house looks the best it has ever looked, to bad someone else is going to get to enjoy it. All the work we needed to do is finally done. It has been so hard to get it all done quickly on a tight budget with two children who are always needing something just at the moment you open the paint can and dip in the brush or right when you climb all the way up the ladder and find just the right spot to balance everything so it won't fall off the ladder. I think it has been God's way of helping me let go because now that I have painted and nailed and boxed up clutter, and scraped, chipped, repaired, and scrubbed I am done not only with the work, but the house itself. I am kind of ready to see it go. We have great memories here (it is the only house Jason and I have lived in since we have been married) but I am ready to make memories in a house that requires less work and more fun. I have been looking at houses in Caldwell county for months now and I have seen some go that I really liked, so now I am ready to find the one God leads me to. I know that the one for us is out there, and I am excited to find it. Emma is anxious, and worried, and I am ready for her to be able to settle in and know that this is where we are going to stay. I want her to understand that all of her things that she loves will be with her. She asks me everyday if her bed is going and if her dog is going and if her sister is going. She is so confused and it bothers me to see her upset about the unknown. I really want to get up there and get settled so that we can all get acclamated to the area before school and fall activities start. I would love to have a relaxing summer learning the area and getting familiar with everything. I am praying every day and every night that God will help send a buyer to our home. The economy is bad and the housing market is worse and we live in a little old starter home in a corn field in the middle of nowhere. Not exactly ideal circumstances for selling a home, but I am convinced that God has led us to this place and He will not leave us stranded.
"Answer me when I call to you, oh my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer." Psalm 4:1

 

Simply Easter...

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Easter... one of my favorite holidays. I didn't really know it was my favorite holiday until I had children. My favorite time of the year is fall. I love to watch the trees change, I love the crisp air, fall festivals and the beginning of winter. I have always loved fall and winter and Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. The birth of my savior is a great reason to celebrate, but I also enjoy the presents and the cookies and the music... Spring is one of my least favorite seasons. Don't get me wrong I love warm air returning, and flowers blooming are o.k., but I don't like head colds ( which I get every Spring), allergies, bugs, yardwork, and rain, all of which arrive in the Spring. I never look forward to the arrival of Spring, but I have found myself looking forward to Easter this year. Easter celebrates the greatest moment in all of History, Jesus overcoming death and the grave. I like that Easter is simple. Christmas is so busy and I feel as though it is hard to keep my family focused on the true meaning of Christmas in the midst of shopping, cooking, entertaining, shopping, presents, Santa Claus, did I mention shopping? I don't have to shop for weeks and weeks to get everyone I know a present for Easter and I don't have anything to wrap or take back afterwards. I enjoy getting dressed up and letting the girls dress up to look their best to worship Christ. I have gotten so casual in the way I dress for church and sometimes my attitude is a reflection of how I look and feel. I want my girls to know what it is to look nice and give your best for Christ. I love that the activities that we do at Easter are just family time activities, dying Easter eggs at the kitchen table, baking cookies with the girls, going to nana and papaws to eat dinner and play. I love to see my children get excited over a simple basket of candy and a stuffed animal. I love that I don't have to worry if the true meaning of Easter is getting drowned out by the world's view and the hype because Easter is about Jesus. Emma asked me the other day what we celebrated Easter for and I told her because Jesus is alive and we celebrate the fact that He died to save us and that He lives so that we can live also and that was that. I didn't have to keep reminding her to focus on the true meaning, and I didn't have to worry that she was going to miss it in all the chaos. She could see it in the bird's nest full of new life on our porch, she could hear it in the songs about Christ as we drove down the road, she could read it in her Bible before bed. The meaning of Easter was coming through loud and clear, all the world had to offer was the Easter bunny and the Easter bunny is no Santa. The Easter bunny is fun and the Easter eggs taste good and look pretty, but Jesus is what it is all about. A simple holiday that has such a huge meaning in a season which brings new life. HAPPY EASTER!
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead..." 1 Peter 1:3