C2C!
We got the best news yesterday and it stil hasn’t sunken in yet but we are clear to close! This means so many different awesome things to us. Riley can go for regular walks and there’s a big yard for her to run around. We can also officially potty train her outside since it doesn’t involve three flights of stairs! Everyone (and I mean everyone) is happy about this. I can also start cooking more regularly and have found a organic produce service that delivers to our place. Super excited about that. Also just having space is ridiculously exciting to me. We are going to host a baby shower pretty much right after we move in. This definetely feels like the next chapter of our lives.
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Things here have been busy and I realized how many decisions each one of us has to make every single day. There are choices, more than our parents had, about how to communicate. Do you blog or facebook or text or twitter or meet for coffee or leave a message? What makes life most sincere? And choices about what is important. God family friends but a list doesn’t tell you how to unfold your day around them. Every day has a list. That which you must do and that which you want to do and several things that you start the day thinking you probably will not get around to. And somewhere hidden in every day is meaning. Maybe it was a hard lesson I learned. Maybe it was the fact that I kept walking even when stopping sounded good. Sometimes it’s sitting on a bench on a windy day with Riley perched on my lap and realizing there is time to breathe. Prayer can be a navigation through all of this. My friend said recently that our charge as Christ followers is this: what ever we do should either be a prayer or it should feel like a prayer. And it is with that thought I begin this day.
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I am unofficially one of the worst packers you may meet. I have moved a total of three times in my life, (Florida, Baylor, with my hubby) and I can’t recall any real details about how I did it. It’s all a little hazy. I do remember the morning I was supposed to leave for england and I was still stuffing things in my suitcase. It is at this point that I make an encouraging list to keep my spirits up.
1. I love the idea of getting rid of things for my friend Rhonda’s awesome garge sale. I already have two trash bags filled with stuff. This equals progress.
2. I have no idea how to pack dishes or other valuable breakable things. I will not worry about that now and save it for later. Whew.
3. It’s fun imagining how much better all our stuff will fit in a house than a condo. It also makes it harder to throw stuff away.
4. We could put pink hearts on our christmas tree (sadly still up) and call it a valentine’s day tree.
5. How in the world do you pack stuff that you’re going to need pretty much every day? Should I regulate myself to a weeks worth of clothes and wear them for a couple weeks straight?
6. I’m done. Not sure if this is really even a list.
7. Dinner should be good tonight. I’m making panag curry.
Always important to end on a positive note. 