for the morris family.

my heart is shattered with the news that they have lost the fight for Joel’s life.  please pray for Cindy and Terry and for all of their children.  they need much encouragement and comfort.  you can leave your thoughts for them at weloveyoujoel.blogspot.com.

and here they are…

 this is the back deck, storage building and back yard – as seen through the sliding glass door in the kitchen.  summer party, anyone?

 this is the jetted tub in the “master bath”.  yes, we have a master bath.  amazing.

 no, this is not the nursery, nor is it even our current bedroom, this is the master closet.  this is the room that makes me feel absolutely guilty if we get this house.  we do not deserve such as this house!

have i mentioned that if somehow this house falls through now that i’ll be a little disappointed?  but it’ll all work out the way it’s supposed to be.  and it’s already worked better than i could have imagined. 

here are some more pics…

the room the kiddos picked – observe that the curious george yellow is already in place, all it needs now is a hand-painted mural and some homemade curtains!

the kiddos’ bathroom – observe, again, already color-ready for the rubber ducky theme i’ve always wanted.

this is other bedroom – we call it the blue room.  the boys call it the one with the narnia closet – the closet connects all the way through to a closet in the living room.  this is the room i’ll take for me and the new one on the nights of daddy’s work when he must sleep and i must be up all night feeding the new one and tending to the other ones who wander in in the middle of the night.  observe the calming color for all that chaos!

this is all for now, i’ll post again with the last of the pics!

WE WON THE BID!!

so now we do paperwork and wait to close on february 23.  as i mentally decorate every square inch.  i’ll include a couple of pics now, and then do a few more posts on them, because i can’t figure out how to put a bunch of pics on one post (and because mandy has dial-up and it would take her forever to look at one post!)

the living room

the kitchen – looking into the living room

thank y’all for all of your prayers!  the mortgage woman said the loan is a given, but i can’t breathe easy until i have the keys in hand and i’m tellin’ all you men where to set the couch.  so, all of you that are bored on the weekend of feb. 23rd, pack yourselves up and come help my man move our stuff “one last time!”  we’ll have a party parker style – food, kids, and chaos! 

i think as excited as i am to have a home of my own for the first time in our lives i’m as excited about creating stability for my kiddos.  as i’ve said before, when your 3 year old says, “mama, can we move one LAST time?” it can’t be good.  i’m so excited that we’ll have a yard for the kids to run in, that i don’t have to ask the landlord before i paint curious george on the walls and i don’t have the dread of another move.  i’m so excited to just be.  put down roots.  settle in.  bring my last baby home to the house we’ll be in for a long time.  mark the wall with how tall they all are.  my husband asked me tonight what we’re going to plant in our garden next year.  sit on that one for a minute.  to stay somewhere long enough to break up land, plant food, care for it, and harvest it.  “tomatoes, of course.”  and potatoes.  i remember digging in the dirt with my dad for potatoes and finding worms when i was no older than my oldest.  and tomatoes – my whole life we had fresh tomatoes, canned tomatoes, tomatoes juice, frozen rotel for winter.  i will can food someday!  i feel like laughing and crying all at once, and yet, i can’t let myself completely go until i know for absolute certain!

either way, thank you, Father, for the amazing blessings that have and are flowing.