Hip Hip Hooray!!!!  We now own a brand new house!  Everything was made official today.  So we are packing maniacs!  Steve and Nicole just left with the WHOLE KITCHEN in the back of our minivan (without seats, of course!).  They are going to unload all those boxes into the kitchen so the kids and I can unpack the kitchen in the morning while we wait for the fridge to arrive.

Friday is moving day!  Well, "movers" day anyway!  I'm going to take a couple of small loads over tomorrow, then pile up a trailer with as many of the rest of the boxes as we can fit tomorrow night.  That way, we can get the movers to carry the super heavy stuff on Friday and we can start living in our new house! 

God is good!  I will have to put together a "miracle list" of all the unbelievable things that the Lord has done for us in this whole selling/buying/moving process.  I stand amazed - literally.  Steve and I are just overwhelmed at how much the Lord cares about the giant things in our lives and the very smallest of details that really matter in our hearts even if we don't talk about them a lot - He knows our hearts and He meets us right where we are. 

Can't wait!  Steve can't wait for his new and improved shorter commute to work every morning.  I can't wait to get my awesome new dedicated school room all set up (more on that in a later blog post)!  The girls can't wait to get their own rooms.  And the boys can't wait to be all together in one room as "room mates" - they have been practicing by sleeping on the floor of each other's rooms at night.  Too cute!

I wish I had a funny story to tell or some clever way of announcing our big news, but I'm just wiped out!  Waking up at odd hours (usually between 3am and 4am) every day this month is taking a toll on me.  So, I really can't wait to just get settled again and into a groove at the new place.  Learning new grocery stores, new shopping, new restaurants, etc - that will take some adjustments!  And finding a gas station that has consistently good prices - that's my number one goal!

If we are personal friends or business acquaintances, watch your email box for our address and phone number change announcement.  Thanks for reading my blog!  Have an awesome week!