I'm BAAAAAAAACK!!!

Husband retiring, moving, selling house, husband getting new job, and unpacking makes little time for blog writing. However it does provide for much material for blogging :) What is hard for me to describe is that moving for our family is equivalent to a trip to Walmart for another family. We can seriously pack and load in one day. My dad said there are two things he knows Mike can do better than anyone else, Catch a football and load a U-Haul truck. The move itself this time was much more emotional for me than our other 8 moves. In 2007, we had decided that we wanted to have a forever house, a house we would grow old in, a house that our kids would always have, a house filled with LOVE and memories. So that is exactly what we did. We designed it, tweaked it, met with builders, painters, decorators, etc we had a hand in every decision that went into that house. When it was finished, I am pretty certain I have never seen anything more beautiful. Every corner of it was perfect, made exactly for our family. I had hired Mother Nursery to help me design the kids bedrooms and they were the most perfect bedrooms any child could wish for. Every details was amazing. So we moved into to our dream house and we LOVED it. Over time however we realized our dream house was just that, a DREAM.

Living in that house made us realize we did not need all of those bells and whistles (although I have come to realize the importance of a big closet). Going back in time, we would not have built our dream house. We would have hopefully realized our dream house is wherever we are as a family. Moving to Huntington, WV and moving into a house that was built in 1937 is the BEST thing that has happened to our family. Makayla's bedroom in our dream house was painted to look like you were in a field looking at a cottage surrounded by animals. It has to be the best little girls room in the world. She had a three dimensional house with her bed upstairs and her very own play house underneath. When we moved to Huntington I painted her bedroom walls yellow and got her a new pink comforter. After making her bed she goes, "Mom this is the best room ever. So much better than my other bedroom" I had to smile because I put so much effort into her other room, spent hours on the internet picking colors, paint, designs, and then spent hours putting it all together. Her new bedroom took all of 5 minutes to unfold the new bedding but what she cared about was that her new room is right next to mommy and daddy. To her the best thing in the world is that she can tap on the wall and I can tap right back. That is what Jesus wants from us, to tap him, whenever we need him, wherever we are, he will tap back :)

So February 25 we closed on our DREAM house. It is forever gone from my life and it makes me sad but it makes me incredibly happy to know that I do not need a house to fulfill a dream, I need only my Jesus and all my dreams will come true.

"For in many dreams and in many words there is emptiness. Rather, fear God." Ecclesiastes 5:7