Moving along

This is CLearwater, FL. This is about 30 minutes from Tampa, Florida. What does this have to do with us your thinking... well a lot. Our landlord called us last week and said that she wanted to put the house up for sale in the spring. Our lease is up at the end of June. So we have until then to find another place to relocate our family of 5 (8 if you include the dog, turtle and frog). Kyle is ready to find a new college, he is tired of dealing with UC, and he is tired of trying to get his teaching degree here in Cincinnati. I on the other hand am able to get my Interpreter degree no matter where we go. Kyle and I have done a lot of talking and some planning this past week as to where we should relocate. We have fallen on love with Tampa. Kyle really likes Tampa University, and I have even found a college (Hillsborough Community College), and their Interpreter program is a straight up 2 year program (72 credit hours, CS's is 112). We have also done a lot of research on the neighborhoods we would like to live in, the crime rates are low, the real estate values are low, but the houses are beautiful, the schools for the kiddos are great, the deaf community there is awesome. Plus who wouldn't love to be next to the beach! Also, today here it is 17, there it is 72....

It is going to be hard to move away from everyone, but we feel that this is something that we need to do for us. We need to be grown ups, and make grown up decisions. This being some of them. I am also excited that the fact that there is not an established Mommies network there yet... so I can start one as long as my application is approved! Great way for me to network and meet new friends for myself, Kyle and the boys. Finding a new church will be a hard thing to do, but searching and going to a few services at different churches will be nice, and finding the right fit for me will be a good experience. God will guide me to the right church.

I feel really good about this. Kyle and Adam do too. The twins are young enough to where they are not going to care, they are just going to be excited to have a house they can still run around in, and the beach will be a plus for them!

I will keep everyone updated on our journey!

Yeah! Party!

There is nothing like a 5 day long party! Here is another one for you all! http://arewethereyetla5.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-5-of-our-blog-party.html

I hope that everyone remembers what they are truly Thankful for today.

In Him,

I love this blogging Party!

This wonderful woman is having another day to party! There are so many things to celebrate, and here is another one, A family is working very hard to bring home a very cute little boy with severe CP. http://www.jeremiahspromisejohn1418.blogspot.com/

Here is the party: http://arewethereyetla5.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-4-of-our-blog-party.html

Another Party!

I am so loving these parties, even if I don't win, to hear the stories, and to find the new blogs, and the items I am able to purchase to help out families is so awesome in itself!

http://arewethereyetla5.blogspot.com/2009/11/day-3-of-our-blog-party.html

Giveaway!!!

Have you been to the blog party yet at http://www.arewethereyetla5.blogspot.com/? It a party to celebrate family, and everyone loves to celebrate families, and I know you love to have parties!

Grateful

Right along with Thanksgiving, can we just skip it all together this year? I have just not been in the spirit at all. When my favorite music station started paying non Christ bearing Christmas carols 2 weeks before Christmas, I just wanted to crawl in a dark hole until the day after Christmas. I have so much to be thankful for, but there are a lot of things plaguing me as well. My days are spent much differently now. I am running a pretty tight ship, but I feel like I am going to fall over board some evenings after the boys go to bed... Father, if I trust You for my eternal salvation, why don't I trust You for my daily needs? Instill in me the peace that comes from casting all my cares to You. Help me wake up to saying this is a new day, I am rejoicing it, and going to bed being grateful for the day that I have had with You, and with my family Father.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

It has been over 2 months since Adam has picked up his guitar. Even when we said if you don't start practicing again, we will sell the guitar, and we will keep the profit. He jut shrugged his shoulders. His grades are great, he came home with straight A's on his report card, I wouldn't of thought he would get less, but he did. He hasn't been doing chores, which we had told him that if he didn't want to do chores, then he was not allowed to do the things that he was allowed to do when he was doing his chores. With responsibility comes flexibility in the fun stuff. He has regressed. I know why. We know why. It makes me sad. I know ways to change it... but it is the way I choose to change it I am not sure about.

God here I go again, I am placing this one, alongside my problems and flaws I have already placed in your large, loving, already heavy hands.

Matthew 11: 28-30 (28) Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. (30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

I need to repeat this verse in my head a lot lately. I also have been told that I need to be the window into God's world. It is just hard, when I feel like that window locked, there is duct tape on the windows so the panes won't shatter, and boarded up so my winds won't gush through. Thank you for telling me that though, thank you for giving me that push, and giving me the eyes to see that I need to be that window...you know who you are. I will keep my winds blowing like a hurricane, and I will break through.