Aug. 31, 2006
It took the thread/idea of deletion to get me back here lol
It's
been a loooong time since I posted anything, but lots of crazy and busy
stuff started happening at that time, so that's my excuse  .
Besides helping dh with the start and growth of launching a new
business, last October, he had a Vas Reversal surgery and in January,
we got our baby :-D. I remember February 1st being the day we
found out and our kids went nuts. They're still really excited
and today, I'm sitting here at exactly 34 weeks and v-e-r-y tired,
since sleep isn't my friend lately  .
In the last 2 months, we also got our house ready to put on the market,
so getting it ready to show and to sell was an, um, adventure.
Especially since that part (getting it ready to show and then leaving
the house several times a day) happened the same weeks we started
school. Now we're only a week and half away from our closing date
and buyer-requested repairs are in progress. And in the next
couple of days, we're moving the rest of our things to an apartment
until Nov/Dec when we *really* move - to VA! LOL We had put our
house on the market when we did because the time on market/time we had
left here in SC was something we needed to at least *try* to
balance. But God is good and our house sold 4 times in a week and
a half  .
First buyer said he wanted it and he wanted to close in 2 weeks (I'm
getting the idea that God wants to keep me on my toes, aren't
you?). Then he said no, he didn't want it. Then he
officially put a contract in and did
want it after all. After almost a week, he vanished into thin
air. His realtor and lender couldn't reach him, neither could our
realtor, etc. So that went away. And 2 days after that, we
got 2 contracts, one on top of the other and eventually went with one
of them. Whew. In the middle of all of that, since we originally had expected to close in 2-2.5 wks, my dad and sister came here from MN and got our kids. We were, at that time, going to be moving to an apt while they were gone and having all of the repair/closing stuff happening. What's ironic and funny is the kids are finally coming back tomorrow night and we're moving this weekend. God has such a sense of humor  .
But I can tell you that it will be exactly 3 weeks they were gone when
they get back and WOW have I missed my babies! They did take
school with them and my sister and my mom took care of that. And
if there's anyone I'd trust to HS my kids temporarily for me, it'd be
my mom, so that made me feel good. She did a great job HSing all
of us and a lot of things I've learned about HSing are because of
her. So here I sit, on the verge of moving and just waiting for TS Ernesto to land here this afternoon and then leave tomorrow "clear and sunny." Praying that God keeps any major (or even minor at this point) damage and flooding at bay right now. If He chooses not to, we'll still be ok, but I'm allowed to at least ask  . Last thing that's hitting my sleep-deprived rambling thoughts is that my best friend that I grew up with in MN just lost her FIL last week. She and her dh were also HSed and they have 5 children and HS, too. It was unexpected, yet not. He was in his early 50s and he died at home with his wife and 3 of his 4 kids with him (they were getting ready to take him to the hospital - he had had a stroke a year and a half ago and struggled with seizures related to a brain tumor that caused the stroke. He had, however, been doing *very* well in the last several months, but had been having a not so good week). I can honestly say I was and still am very happy for him - he suffered physically a lot, esp. that last week and now he's not. For his family, I can't even imagine what this is like. I don't know how I'd tell my kids, like my friend was telling me she had to, that their G'pa had died. My two older ones would understand this, but my 5yo would not (he'd understand "G'pa was very sick, is in heaven, etc" but I know he wouldn't grasp at this point that it means "he's never coming back here."). As a wife, the hole that would be left by my husband dying would be huge and gaping and so I've really been praying for God to give her so much comfort. I will quit my rambling catch-up and just try to come here more than once a year! |
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