Category: Family (Page 17 of 26)

I seem to be behind the ball on every occasion this year… it seems to be most of my posts say “Happy (LATE) ______(fill in the blank)________! ”

Ah, well… I still mean all of my tardy wishes!

So, Happy Father’s Day to my wonderful Dad!   I’m not as eloquent as many at writing just how meaningful it is to have you in my life, Dad, but I still treasure you.  🙂  I hope you had a splendid day!

In other news….. it’s not raining today!  Well at least not yet, anyway.  The kids were able to enjoy a whole morning of fun outside without getting wet!    And more importantly I was able to get a bunch of the laundry and bedding washed and even hung outside to dry in the sun.  It was great.  Washing bedding is always risky business when your house is on the market and you only have one nice comforter for each bed… what if there is a showing while everything is in the washer???!!   🙂

In house related news, the house that we saw in the very beginning and loved has come and gone again and is back on the market again (and almost $50,000 cheaper!).  Even though that rings an alarm of suspiciousness (I wish that was a word…) it’s still top on our list and it’s hard to watch it come and go again.  Slipping right through our fingers.  Sigh.  Oh, well.  God knows the desires of our hearts and he knows the house that will be perfect for us, so we just need to wait.

No showings this weekend–which felt weird.  We’ve had 10 showings just in the past 15 days.  But it has given us an opportunity to do a lot of things this past week:  trip to St. Cloud, trip to the beach, walking with a church friend a couple of times, trips to the park, etc.  So, I shouldn’t really complain.  All of the showings are forcing me to get out of the house and do stuff, anyway!  🙂

Okay, so this first part is about the house, but it’s really just to say that we don’t have any more news on anything.  The home inspector still hasn’t come yet.  So, my news is that there’s no news.  🙂

And now onto other stuff!

What?

Am I truly capable of talking about things other than our housing situation?  Well… I guess I can try… 😉

Hmmm…. so what could I talk about?

The weather!  Yes, the weather was absolutely GORGEOUS this weekend.  It got up to 82 degrees–which is a stark contrast from having snow a week ago!  Tim said it was like watching ants outside as all the people slowly emerged from their homes, piling outside to filter along the sidewalks and roads.  They all meandered leisurely enjoying the rays of sunshine.  It was quite amusing.  Even Tim spent time outside with the kids and did some raking in the yard.   It felt good to be able to enjoy some fresh air again.

Church.  We have been blessed as a church to have purchased our own theater building this past summer but it is in need of some major renovations.  We have just been “making it work” since then, but we are finally launching into our first campaign to actually do work on the building.  It’s exciting and quite nerve-wracking  for Tim & I to step out in faith to make a commitment to the campaign.  Knowing that our financial future is very unknown right now makes it extra hard.  But God is a big God and finances are no big deal to him.  So, we’ll trust.  This could be a very interesting year for us.

Kids.  Chloe and Josiah are doing great.  Josiah says new phrases every day.  He’ll respond to our questions in such a gown-up way that it makes us laugh.  He’s such a character these days.  They have been going especially crazy being cooped up for the last month when we could NORMALLY get outside…  I think everyone will be much happier now that they can be loud and run off some energy outside now that the snow is F.I.N.A.L.L.Y. gone.  🙂

Laundry day here!

And because I just can’t resist… a little more house stuff.  We did look at a few more houses this weekend (we went to open houses since our realtor was crazy busy).  None of them were right.  Fine houses, but not the one for us.

Hello everybody!

Look! I’m actually alive!  🙂

I’m sorry I vanished from the face of the planet (or at least via my website or answering or returning any phone calls!) for the past month. I THOUGHT things would settle down after my crazy contest weekend, but, alas, I was wrong.  SO.  VERY.  WRONG.

We’ve been working our tails off getting the house fixed up to list. It was my Spring Break week last week, but I had to teach on Monday still to make up for the previous Monday that I had to take off because of grading for contest… then Tuesday through today still we’ve been working from dawn to dusk on projects.  Dad was here on Saturday to help with the carpet and stairs (which, of course, turned into a much larger project than we had anticipated) but now it looks awesome!  Patsy and Jen also came on Saturday to help paint and pull staples from the flooring and steps as well as countless other random projects.  Then Bakers and Jen and Patsy were all back again on Sunday to help with more endless projects… (THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE!!!! ;))

I will say, however, that by the time Sunday (Easter) rolled around I was so emotionally and physically spent that I started crying 3 times during worship team rehearsal before church.  I was so tired and sore and stressed about the house being a mess and all the projects we had left to do–it wasn’t a pretty sight.  Luckily I was able to keep myself in check each time and wasn’t a blubbering fool on stage!

Anyway, you get the idea.  We’ve done a lot of projects.  And we’re tired.  🙂  I’ll stop being dramatic about it all.

I’m hoping to have some pictures to actually start showing you.  We have just a small handful of random odds and ends to finish up.  We were hoping to have those completed by today, but the bathroom upstairs has proven to be a MASSIVE headache of unexpected problems.  But, no worries, since Tim finally got that all straightened out tonight.  But it did end up taking us an entire day and a half longer than we had expected… so we’ll get back to the random odds and ends tomorrow.

And with all that said, we’re hoping to list next weekish.  We’re just waiting for the stucco guy to come and repair the outside and he can’t do that until it warms up to above freezing overnight on a regular basis, which it isn’t yet (whine, whine).  But soon!  Soon!

😉