Ladybugs & Stinkbugs

It has been one year since we moved into our new house!! We absolutely still love it, and would not want to be anywhere else. I love the kitchen, the tile floor and the extra game room for the kids to play. I love it that we are in between TWO corners – you can’t to our house without slowing down enough to turn – and the kids can ride their bikes on the street. I enjoy the big backyard with the privacy fence that lets the kids be outside all day long…they all have tan lines like you wouldn’t believe. I even enjoy the coziness of our three bedrooms (when we could really use four). It keeps us all close! Even if we could afford a bigger “better” house, we wouldn’t move! I will remodel and make changes for years before I’ll give up my house.

Now that you all know how much we love our home, it’s time for the bad news…we’re completely OUT of our home right now! Our a/c is broken…again…for the third time this summer. They finally decided to put in a whole new unit. However, they don’t know when that will happen. They are having it delivered…best case is tomorrow…worst case is early next week…AFTER the weekend, of course. This is NOT fun!

Jeremy’s parents have graciously allowed us to stay with them. It’s not unpleasant; the kids are having a great time. We’re just not at OUR home, you know? We’re ready to be back there, back in OUR routine, especially since we had JUST resumed school.

All that said, we are “practicing” being patient (as I tell the kids all the time). I don’t know that God has some grand “purpose” for all of this, but I do know He uses our circumstances to change us…if we allow Him to. So please pray for us that:
- This will be over soon!
- That we will have patience and allow God’s work to be done in us…even if the work isn’t done outside of us as quickly as we would like. =)