A beginning

Well, as I sit with a warm cup of coffee and look at a blank slate, I will try to begin a new venture. Blogging is so popular but it is such an amazing way to share your thoughts, lessons learned and adventures with family and friends some known and some I haven't yet met. I will attempt to make it worth your while to take time out of your ever busy schedules to sit and read someone else's life happenings, but no promises. I am just a simple country girl with lots rattling around in this head of mine. I love writing because it helps me to sort out the mess in my head. There, I have a beginning. Kinda dorky I know, like those original sounding papers we had to write in school. "What I did this summer." But I figured if it starts out kinda lame, I can only improve from there right?

Well, I call myself a country girl, but at present I am trapped in the city. We sold our land and home we had on 15 acres about four years ago so we could move closer to our family and church. We tried to buy a house with smaller acreage, but wasted 2 weeks trying to get a price we liked and eventually felt like that wasn't where we were supposed to be, so we ended up desperately seeking something to fit our family into. My husband didn't want to rent so we found a new house that was ready for purchase and we bought it. We weren't crazy about living in town and I was even less crazy about the teeny tiny strip of grass that they called my backyard. I now pay ridiculous taxes for my slice of city living. Well, pizza delivery to my house is not worth the extra hassles I must deal with here. I am trying to be patient and wait on God to show us how long we must stay here or when/if we can move on. We love the location in our hometown and close to our church, but I just need some room to breathe and ability to go outside in my robe without scarring the neighborhood kids. I have had my eye on a house very close to my mom's house. It only has a little over 2 acres but that should be enough for 1 horse and a dozen chickens and a herd of dogs and cats. I need a rabbit too, heard their droppings make great homemade garden fertilizer! Well, anyway, I know the woman who owns this house and she has been trying to sell it for the past two years. Her and her husband divorced and she is ready to get the house sold and move on. I recently got up the nerve to ask her how low she could sell it if we didn't have to pay realtor's fees. Hoping she could lower it to our price range. She seems interested in talking and we are planning to go look at the inside in person in a few weeks. I'll be praying that if the Lord wants us to pursue this home then he'll give us some confirmation and allow us to sell our current home quickly(did I say quickly, sorry in God's good timing). ;) I hate selling a home. You are expected to keep it in museum quality condition. I happen to live in my house 24/7 with my four children and at times, up to 3 additional children that I currently babysit. This is not a practical condition for having a realtor call you with a 1 hour warning that they would like to show your house. My children are troopers though. They are all so anxious to move back to the country that they hop to it and kick into gear with super speedy cleaning detail. Though its hard for me, I want everything to be just right and "child clean" is not quite the same as "Mom clean", you mom's know what I mean. Ironically though, when we sold our home in Ennis, 15 acres and a 10 year old double wide, it was totally a God ordained thing, because the man who bought it saw it when I was gone with two of the older children and it was up to dear hubby to clean with 2 younger children (who were no help at all being toddler/preschool age) before the buyer came to see it. Well..."Husband clean" is in a category all by itself. Needless to say it was divine intervention because the house was the worst condition that it had ever been shown but the guy bought it anyway. He didn't even do an inspection! Well, I know God can move mountains to sell a house and the timing has to be right, so until it happens I will try to be patient and accept His will for us at this time. I can rest in Him, knowing He knows the desire of my heart and ultimately what's best for me. So, I shall see what the future holds. In the meantime, guess I'll start de-cluttering and packing up some of the toys that runneth over into all the places they shouldn't be.