Still Nothing...

Now 2 days have gone by this week and we have not heard anything about any offer on our house. Either it is taking them a long time to decide what to offer or they have changed their minds, but what ever the reason, I am going just a wee bit crazy here...

A tiring, but good day!

It is amazing how cool it can be to belong to a good church family. I spent a wonderful morning in the A/V booth running slides for both services. I love doing this, I try to make sure everything runs as smooth as possible, although I usually mess something up. Pastor Debbie sung a wonderful song during offering in first service. It was speaking to me so loudly that I was almost trying not to listen, but I still heard her. Pastor Jeff did a great job preaching, he seemed a little more into his sermon in second service. Then we got invited over to a friend's house so the kiddos could swim. I had a most needed chatting time with two wonderful women. I can not say how needed that was for me. Then this evening I spent with the youth group. I love just chatting, it felt good to talk to some teens I have not talked with much lately. It is great to hear the kids having a good time. It was neat to hear them pray at the end of group time tonight. Awesome! I am exhausted now, and my poor hubby is still working. He has been working ALL day. While the kiddos and I got to play, he has sat at his desk on conference calls all day and programed. I am sure he will be ready for a break sometime....ummmm...probably next week, not tonight.

Second Showing...

So, we have now had the house shown for a second time on Thursday to the same people that saw it on Tuesday. It is now a waiting game, you would think I would be getting really good at this whole waiting thing. I am been thinking like Jonah these days, God you want me to go? Do I have to? The only difference between Jonah and I, is that I am willing to go, I learned from him and I don't need to spend anytime in the belly of a great fish, I will just go. But it is still hard. We have not had an offer yet, we have just heard they are preparing to make an offer. Not sure what the offer will be, we really have no bargaining room with our price...that is our price, take it or leave it, so we will see...

Ironing...

Lots of ironing being done this week. Yep, every time I wash 100% cotton material have to spend hours ironing out the material. It is this hours of prep work that makes laying out the material for patterns, cutting the material and sewing the material so much easier. Kind of reminds of raising kids, all the prep work of discipline in the early years makes raising older kids so much easier. Most of my disciplining these days is more like a reminder of what they already know. But doing all that prep work in the beginning is hard to do. Ironing is just takes so long, feels like there is no end to it. Disciplining kids in the beginning is hard too, feels like you are just being the meanest person in the whole world. But it makes a huge difference in the end. Just looking at all the nicely ironed material that is just waiting to be laid out flat and easily ready for patterns to be set upon, so that it can be made into something nice, is so cool. Also, watching my older children grow, ready to do what they have been taught is right, knowing that I can hand them off to others and they will be respectful to them, and just watching them make decisions on their own, VERY COOL.

So weird...

So, how weird is it that just after I blog today about how I only have to wait 4 more months and we will be able to say we are staying, that we should get a call asking to show our house tonight? Yeah, we had to leave our house for a short time while someone came and looked at it. It is really weird to come home to your house, knowing that a stranger was just in it...lol. It is still in God's hands. It just seems like He likes to keep us guessing right now...

4 months to go...

Ok, I can't help it, it must be the humanness in me, but in just 4 months our contract for selling the house will be up, things will be decided and we will be able to get back to normal. The kids are really wanting to bring some things back inside that had been all packed up. It will be nice to make long range plans without saying, if we are still here. I have been trying really hard to be patient and just wait things out, but the longer it drags on the harder it is. It would be harder to move at this point than it would have been, say back the first of June, but I would still move if I thought that was what God wanted us to do. Dwayne and I have been wondering if this was just a good time for us to purge a lot of unneeded items from our house, to learn to live a little more simply, and to just be prepared for what might happen next. One cool thing about all this is that I almost always have a fairly clean house, not as much to pick up, so we have been able to have more people over for Sunday afternoon lunches and stuff. We are still waiting to see what the final plan is, but if things keep going this rate....looks like we will be staying in Indiana.

Sunshine...

What a beautiful week we have had!!!! The weather has been wonderful. My oldest kiddo left for band camp on Sunday, my son join the ranks of Jr. High Youth group, he was so excited and then we started out our week. Monday, Dora and Brighton went to play at the Clouse's house, so I offered t cook up dinner for us all, which meant a quick trip to Winchester to pick up just a few items. I decided to drive my litte ghia, so much fun, fun that is until the battery in the middle of Winchester, thank goodness for my wonderful hubby, who drove over to save me. We had a wonderfully relaxing evening with our friends. The kids have spending their days else where this week, which has give me ample time to work on Dwayne's new 1812 great coat, pictures will soon follow, I should finish it today.

The funniest thing about this week was Sari coming home from band camp last night very RED! Her comment was, "I thought there were places the sun just could not touch, but no, the sun knows no boundries." She was very tired, and she looked so much more grown up last night. It is kind of sad watching your kids grow up sometimes, knowing that they are increasingly learning how to make it out in the world without you. But it is a good thing too, when you get to see them making good decisions. Obviously a little more sun screen would have been a wise decision for my daughter this time...lol.

This summer is going by so quickly, I can't believe tomorrow is the 4th of July. We still have no takers on our house, so at this rate it is looking more and more like we may just stay here. As I have been meeting new people and enjoying hanging out with old friends, I am good with that. We are good with where ever God places us.