Happiness

Well, I guess since I mentioned in my last post that I love it when it pours down trials, more trials have hit and I've been humbled. No longer am I prideful and rejoicing in that fact that this move has been hard. I am holding on and doing my best to rejoice in the small, tender mercies of the Lord. The Tender Mercies: -Even though we lost access to water last night because of a broken pipe caused by a repair man, we were able to get it back quickly this afternoon. -I finished the laundry right before we lost our water. -We were able to go swimming in our pool this afternoon (Heavenly!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the pool at home idea!) and the water came back on right in time for me and the kiddos to have a hot showers! -Yesterday it rained and while we were figuring out what to do with the broken pipe, a double rainbow appeared. Amazing! -I have a stye (a red bump) in my eye from lack of sleep but was able to sleep in and it is getting better. -Even though it was something I didn't ...

This is what you see after you walk beyond the first room. I like the space! I have more pictures but my camera is acting up and I don't have a lot of time! This is what you see when you walk right out of the back door. To the right is the pool, which is green since the home was left vacant for 2 weeks- but we're working on that! It feels so nice to type on a full keyboard and not on the little one on my phone! Of course, that is a first world problem, just like when your thumbs get sore from texting! We are in our new home and are happy to be over the hump of all the hard work of moving! Now, we just have to unpack everything but we can do it on our own time table! We moved everything an exactly 4 minute drive (I've done it many times now) south east on Saturday morning with the help of our Church Friends. We ran into a few bumps in the road (the 26 ft. truck was too small for all our stuff.), we couldn't find the place to turn on the water (so we made trips back to ou...