Goodbye to old familiar friend...........

Today is the last day in my house. This house has been a dear friend to me. It has kept us warm in the winter time and cool in the summer. We have had some great times in this house. Christmases, birthdays, parties, gatherings, and many hours of laughter and even a few tears. It has seen good times and bad times.

Both of m girls started school in this house. Both of my girls lost their first teeth in this house. We have been so blessed by God here. We grew up here, David and I. We became parents of a second baby girl here.

We experimented with home remodeling in this house. Some turned out great and some not so great. It is odd to sit in your house with all of your belongings packed up. It is a weird feeling. The walls echo of distant memories. The resound the laughter that was once experienced. I look at the carpet and see not only carpet, but all the times we played games on the floor or had a pizza picnic there. We used to spread out sheets on the living room floor and have a pizza picnic. The girls absolutely loved it and we did too.

We are loading the truck tomorrow. I am ready to stop living in the middle and get a move on with the next chapter of our lives. It will be so good to have my hunny home more. And I know he is tired of traveling back and forth.

I am very excited about our new house. We will have to break it in with more pizza picnics. More game night and all of the wonderful things that families do to grow in love with each other. we will head out July 4th. We will be staying with family until we leave.

So goodbye dear friend. I pray that God peace continue to reside here for the next family as it did with us.

ttfn............

packing, packing, and uh wait, more packing........

this is what we have been doing for days. i pick one room a day and pack it up. really it has not been that bad. i have discovered that i do not particularly like living in disarray. but who doesn't live in some sort of disarray.

anyway time is drawing near. can you feel the myriad of emotions floating in the air? we are having a going away party for us at my sister's house tonight. how come we don't realize how important people are to us until we are about to leave them? are we so spoiled that we just take everything for granted?

i am learning how much i really love and miss david when he is not here. i have learned that i REALLY took him for granted for the past 19 years.

so here is the moral of the story. don't wait to tell people you love them and appreciate them. life changes in an instant. hug someone everyday. live life to the fullest. seize the day. laugh more than you cry. share a diet dr. pepper with some one. sit and visit like you might not ever have the chance again. savor every moment with the people you love.

ttfn......

WE SOLD A HOUSE, AND WE BOUGHT A HOUSE......

we sold our house and we bought a house. the latter was much, much, more fun. this week our house had it's inspection, everything passed but the roof. that was not a surprise to us. so this monday three roofers are coming to our house to give us three estimates. then our adjuster is coming out on thursday, to assess the damages from the april tornado. the roofers will begin on friday.

so on monday of this week, me and the girls went up to mckinney, where my brother in law lives, and we looked at houses. it was so much more fun to be on the buying end of the stick. we put a contract on a house in mckinney texas. they did not except our original offer, but they came back with an acceptable offer. we will close on it, july 1st. it is ten minutes away from the elementary that i will be teaching at. it is also ten minutes away from david's brother and sister in law.

i am so excited. i will make sure i post pictures as soon as i get up there. i am so excited to have my family under one roof. we got to spend 5 days with david and i sure realized how much i miss him. the girls are really starting to miss him too. i am ready to be a together family again.

when we got back into town, i saw that we had a sold sign on our house. i think it was more of a relief to sell our house, than to buy one. we close on this house in san angelo, the 30th of june. so we we have three more sunday's here, including tomorrow and then the 21st, and the 28th and then we will leave for mckinney. we will leave friday morning on the 4th.

i am excited and sad at the same time. my family is giving us a going away barbecue on the 21st. i am sure that will be bitter sweet. it will be hard to leave them, as it will you. i figured out the other day out of my 41 years of life, i have only lived away from this area for 4-5 years.

this is becoming real.


ttfn........

THE SHOUTING HEARD AROUND THE WORLD.............

YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE JUST ACCEPTED A CONTRACT ON OUR HOUSE.


THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS, THANK YOU JESUS, A MILLION TIMES OVER, THANK YOU JESUS.

WOW!!!!

I KNOW THE PEACE SPEAKER, I KNOW HIM BY NAME. YOU RECEIVE ALL THE POWER AND GLORY AND PRAISE AND GLORY. EVERYTHING IS IN YOUR HANDS. I LOVE YOU SO, AND DO NOT DESERVE YOU. WHY YOU PUT UP WITH ME, I WILL NEVER KNOW. YOU KEEP MY FEET FROM STUMBLING. YOUR BLESSINGS ARE TOO MANY FOR ME TO COUNT. I AM ONCE AGAIN HUMBLED. I BOW AT YOUR MAGNIFICENCE.

we have to be out by june 30th. we are going up next week to put a contract on a house. i am excited to be on the other side of the fence.

Lord, guide our feet. show us the house You want us to buy. i know that there is a house up there just for us. thank you for hearing and answering my cry. thank you . show up the path that we should take. lead us guide us, let us feel Your presence while we take our next step in this adventure. show us exactly where You want us to buy. it is our greatest desire to please you. we love You. we are humbly at your service. we owe You everything.

Your daughter in Christ,
kimmie

New Face Lift and He is walks with me, and He talks with me.....

I decided it was time for a new face lift for my blog. I don't really know much. The few things I do know is :

*I REALLY NEED MY HOUSE TO SELL

* we are going to Frisco next week Tuesday or Wednesday to find a house and offer a contract

* I REALLY NEED MY HOUSE TO SELL

* i am excited to find a new house

* we are going to rent out our house if it doesn't sell

OH, DID I TELL YOU I REALLY NEED MY HOUSE TO SELL

the sweetest thing in the world happened last sunday, my baby grill got baptized. how cool is that. she stood up there, so brave in Christ. i was so proud of her. we went to lunch to celebrate. we had such a great day. what a blessed day it was. i told her nothing she could ever do could make me more proud than that. i was just beaming. what an awesome day. i love her so much. i decided i was going to get her one of those dolls that are like the american girl doll, but at the christian book store.

when we were getting her changed back into her dry clothes, she told me that she felt such peace this morning. does it get any better that? i think not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

even in the midst of great stress and what ifs, i find moments of sweet peace that only Jesus gives. i know that He is control. if he wants us to rent out our house, then that is what will happen. don't get me wrong i have to fight to stay in Christ's peace. the word tells us that we are to pursue peace. i am discovering just what that means.

i am learning to pursue peace in the midsts of uncertainty. He is walking with me even when my stress level rises. when i feel like throwing a fit. He just lovingly watches over me. just as a parent watches over her child.

i am also learning to lean not on my own understanding. but truly trust in His wisdom, His timing, His purpose, His will. We will emerge victoriously. We are triumphant.

WE WILL SELL OUR HOUSE, IN JESUS NAME.

AAAHHHHH SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!

SCHOOL'S OUT! SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!!
SCHOOL'S OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


LIFE COULDN'T BE SWEETER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Calling All Masses, Calling All Masses........

o.k. guys i am calling all masses to pray for our house to sell. now i have to admit that this is a lesson in HUMILITY for me. let me explain. when we were living in addison texas, we went to a church (a well off church) we didn't realize it until later. anyway sunday after sunday someone was praying for their house to sell. i remember telling david, why aren't they praying for ALL the starving children in the world, or the homeless, or all of the women that are beaten everyday, or all the people that are suffering with all sorts of terrible diseases, instead of a house that needs to be selling.


so one night i am praying to God tearfully that He help us sell our house and He gently reminds me of this. i remember trying to ignore this, like who me God are you talking to me. while all the while i knew darn good and well who he was talking to. i quickly felt so embarrassed, and bad for all the ugly comments i made to david about these so called "selfish" people that it just stopped me in my tracks. i couldn't go on.

i was immediately was filled with remorse and compassion for them. i was so humiliated that i didn't even ask to be forgiven. i then thought about all of the things that they must have been feeling and going through. jobs, schools for their children, future houses, hopes, dreams and all those other things that are put on hold while waiting for their house to be sold. husbands that might have been traveling far distances for their job, and having to be away from their loved ones for extended periods of time.


a few nights later, God gently whispered into my heart to blog about it and ask my blogging family to pray for us to sell a house. i was so filled with shame, guilt, embarrassment and a little lingering wounded pride that i just couldn't. a few nights ago the house selling began to just really get me bummed. why God? i began to cry. the first time. i think part of that was because of the stress of trying to sell a house and the realization of how close our move is really getting. it had all just built up.

later that night, i felt God whispering to me, You can either sit and pout and waste your summer worring about when your house is going to sell, or you can enjoy the EXTRA time i am providing you with, to be with your wonderful family and friends.

I am always faithful, always reliable, and always dependable. I ordained this move and I will not leave you or forsake you. You are my child, nothing takes me by surprise. Have I ever not taken care of you? i had to answer Him, "no."

God also told me to start praying for the house across the street to sell. they are military and they need their house to sell before yours. he HAS to leave before you. so now i am.

so not only am i callingall masses to pray for our house to sell, but also for Rob and Cindy's house to sell. SO I AM ASKING MY POWERFUL SISTERS IN CHRIST, PLEASE PRAY FOR BOTH OF US TO SELL OUR HOUSE QUICKLY!!!!! especially Rob and Cindy's. they are almost at the point of renting their house out which they really don't want to do.


thank you for your prayers,
kimmie