We Found a House!

Yep, as the title suggests we found a place to call home for the duration of my hubby's deployment (though it's hard to fathom it really feeling like 'home' without his presence!). It's a cute little house in a beautiful setting, set back from the road and relatively private. My mom was awesome and did all of the running around checking out the various houses we have been looking into, taking pictures, and then promptly e-mailing us the pictures with descriptions and thoughts (thanks Mom! :).


We submitted applications for two different places, but one of the places--though it had a nicer house that was somewhat more convenient in a lot of ways--we had some concerns about, so we prayed that God would close the door on their end if it wasn't the place for us. To make a long story short, the door was closed. We were accepted for the second house and sent in the security deposit today.


As I'm sure you can imagine, not having to worry about finding a place to live now is a HUGE stress reliever!! Though the house isn't perfect and I'm going to have a LOT of baby-proofing to do, I am very grateful to not have to worry about finding a place to live anymore (especially one that fit all of our specifications!). So, without further ado, here are a couple of the pictures my mom sent....

 

Off to the right is the horse pasture....

 Just another view of the front....

So there you have it! Our future home. 

Oh, please be praying for the truck to sell quickly! The guy that was going to buy it last weekend backed out, but there is another guy who wants to take a look at it tomorrow, so we are praying that will go well. As much as we hate to see it go, we do need it to sell so we can have the money we need for the move. 

I will try my best to keep updating more often as we prepare for the move and deployment...I know things are bound to become pretty hectic and stressful at times around here, but I will *try* to post more often. I do miss blogging!

Life Update

Hello everyone! Hello . . . anyone? Hellllllooooo? Anyone still here reading this thing? I wouldn't blame you if you're not (though I guess if you just read that, then you haven't given up on me quite yet--YAY!). :-)

Well, for those of you who are in fact still reading this, I shall attempt to give you as much of an update as I can before something catastrophic happens and I can't write anymore, ha ha.

My hubby came home the first week of September (WOO-HOO!), and it has been SO wonderful having him home again (of course :-). Munchkin still gets worried though when Hubby has to leave for work and he gets clingy to his daddy as soon as he realizes that Daddy is about to leave. I try not to dwell on it much, but seeing him react that way makes this upcoming deployment even more difficult. . .it's not like I can effectively explain to him at such a tender age why his daddy has to leave and when he will be back. I think that breaks my heart more than the thought of being apart from my Hubby myself--at least I understand where he is going, why, and for how long--and therefore have the ability to come to terms with it--Munchkin doesn't have that luxury at this point in his life. :-(

Anyhow, before I go getting all sad at the thought of my sweet Munchkin's utter confusion at the disappearance of his daddy, I guess I'd better change the topic to something else (albeit still deployment related--as is most everything in our lives right now!).

We are still searching for a place to live in Virginia. We have a couple of prospective places, and are supposed to hear back on one of them this weekend, so we shall see. We are trusting God to open/close doors as He sees fit, though I am really hoping He will open doors sooner rather than later! Not as I will Father, but as you will. I have to constantly remind myself of that.

I am slowly starting to put things in boxes to be put in storage here while the Munchkin and I are in Virginia . . . it's slow going with a Munchkin who rarely naps these days (unless we are out driving during naptime--and sometimes even then he won't nap) and would get into everything I'm in the process of trying to box up if I let him. So I think I've gotten a grand total of 4 boxes packed in about 3 weeks time. Yay me. :-p I'm on a roll y'all! Okay, so maybe I'm not quite going at the pace I should be yet, but I intend to get there . . . I just don't know when. :-p Thankfully, after we first moved here I insisted that we start organizing and categorizing our random "stuff" so quite a bit of that is already boxed up in plastic tubs, so at least I don't have to worry about all of that.

Oh, we are selling our truck. A guy from another island is buying it tomorrow morning . . . to tell the truth, I'm glad he lives on another island--if I had to see someone else driving our truck around I would be so sad. I know it's just a worldly possession, but we are still very sad to see it go. We knew it was going to have to happen before we left the island since we will need to get another bigger truck at our next duty station (one that is actually able to haul the weight of a horse trailer with horses in it without straining), and though we did contemplate keeping this one as my primary means of transportation, it just isn't practical as a Baby-Mobile. Plus, now the Army has suddenly announced that they aren't going to pay to store anyone's vehicles like normal during the deployment, so it's not like we had much leeway to change our minds anyway in the end. I'm going to miss it. I didn't realize last Sunday would be the last time I would get to ride in it until this afternoon. *sniff*

One last thing, please, please, PLEASE join with us in praying for a homeless friend of ours--we don't know much about him yet--just that he has fallen on hard times somehow (doesn't matter how), but we think he might be a Brother in Christ and he could really use your prayers. So, please, won't you take a minute of your time and remember to pray for Raymond and his dog, Coby. I know he would appreciate it--more than you might ever know. If we are able to track him down this weekend we are going to give him a weatherproof Bible, so please pray that God would use us to minister to him. THANK YOU.