New Home

We have moved. And apparently we can't get internet there. Soooooooo. I am having withdrawals and feel disconnected from all my friends!! I will try to post when I come into contact with some WiFi...

Our new address is:
3706 County Rd 801
Cleburne, TX 76031

Just so you can update your Christmas card list ;)

Mooooooooovinnnnnggg!!

My sweet sweet sister-in-lovely, Shawna, came over today to make me get my rear in gear. We got the house packed down!!! We are ready to move. We can't walk through the house...but it is done (except the stuff we are using of course).

And tomorrow, my best friend Jaymie is coming with her awesome husband Ray to move us to the house! The have helped us move so many times it isn't funny. I think this one is number 4. How sad is that?! But I am so excited to see her and spend the weekend with her and her family.

So things are wrapping up. We are about to leave Tinyville--kind of bittersweet. I will miss the cookouts with all our seminary friends. That fellowship is priceless! Not to even mention the friends the girls will be leaving behind. However, it will be so nice to be close to our new church! So this weekend another chapter closes in the house scrapbook of our lives...

the mundane

I should be packing. Still. I just can't do it!! It is like a mental block or something. I don't know what is wrong with me.

I registered for spring semester. 17 hours. I may die. Graduation should come by August, if the scheduling people offer 2 more psych classes. I think if I make it to the cap and gown day I deserve a pair of new cowboy boots. Do I hear an amen??!!!

Have I mentioned that I don't like homework? Or professors that assign really really stupid things that will teach me nothing? Just wonderin'...

6 days. Oh Wait. Cam said we could move in this weekend. Let's make that 2 days. Which brings us back to that mental block...

details

Okay. The last post may have been hasty without enough details. my apologies. The Midol is working, so I will elaborate. :)

Cameron has been called at the new Associate Pastor/Music Minister at Lane Praire Baptist Church in Joshua. It is only about half an hour from where we live, but we are moving into a nice house in the country that a lady from the church is so generously renting to us for a very low price. He will continue going to school, but this will be our main source of income (no more real estate). We are VERY excited about what God has in store for us at this church! The people are beyond friendly and want to support us in any and every way. It is a traditional church (which is another long story, but a neat one!!). Cam will be sporting a suit and tie every week (I will try my best to post a picture for you all if I can sneak one of him in all his handsomeness.) So that is it. The story of why we are moving. We found out last week that the move date is next Tuesday. Eight days from now. The boxes in my kitchen are mocking me yet I lay here in bed filling y'all in...

On a totally different note--Gracie is signed up to play Upward Basketball!!! She is thrilled. Cameron brought her home a pink basketball last night so that is the first thing she did today--go outside to dribble. So sweet. I can't wait!!

moving. again.

We are moving to Joshua. In 8 days. I havent begun to pack yet. I am overwhelmed and grumpy and stressed and the woman fairy has visited and that is NOT fair this week. When and if I ever snap out of this all-consuming funk, I will give all the great reasons we are moving. We are truly excited about it! I just dont feel like typing it all out. And dont judge. Jesus understands my funk. We have already discussed it. :)

Pangs of Want

I laid in bed next to the sweetest little almost 8 week old girl for three hours last night while her parents took her brother to the ER. I couldn't stop myself from touching her, and my arms ached to cuddle her close (I tried, mind you, but she started rooting, and that would have been a very bad thing for her to wake up wanting!). I had forgotten what it looked like to have a baby in my bed! I looked at Cam and him leaning over to kiss her sweet little head, and I just wanted. I wanted another one. Another sweet baby to hold and snuggle and nurse. Ohhhh, it was a little taste of heaven. I think I fell in love last night and sweet baby Brooklyn now has a piece of my heart!

Arkansas

Life, the part we don't ever want to happen, happened. We made a flying trip to Arkansas (literally felt like flying with Cory at the wheel) on Wednesday and returned last night. PaWayne, my grandpa-in-love, left this earthly home and went to his eternal home. The service was heartbreaking, but a nice tribute to him. He was a very very loved man. Please stop now :) and say a quick little prayer for Mush (his wife, our grandma). It is never easy to say goodbye, especially when you didn't get a chance to say it. She needs to be lifted up and supported by our Father right now

Father-please hold Mush in your loving embrace. Give her the strength she needs to face this day and the ones after today. Hold her in Your arms and give her a peace that passes anything we can understand. Thank you for giving her and Wayne the time they had together and the chance to love one another so completely. We love you Father and know that your grace will be sufficient. -In Your Holy Son's name, Amen

Leaving Carolina

Leaving Carolina by Tamara Lee

I must post about this book. It was a fantastic book! Piper leaves the little town she called home for bigger better things. She makes a name for herself and finds an "uptown" man she wants to marry. Then, her world tilts, and her big secret is about to be revealed...she must run home and stop the events from spiralling out of control. Then she meets him. Axel. *swoon* And everything starts to look a little differently.
I recommend you go out and get this one. It is cute, easy to read, and similar to Sweet Home Alabama (a fave of mine)! So go! Now.

This book was provided free by Multnomah Publishing Co.