Finally Moving Day

Just a quick note to say that today is the BIG day we've been waiting for. Tonight we'll be sleeping in a new home. :) I'll miss this house but can't wait to make the new one "ours."

If someone reads this today, please pray for S. She has a scholarship interview this morning early.

I'm off to take S to her interview and start moving after that.

Love to all!

Let the Moving Begin! :)

My goofy and adorable son, Matthew! :)

The workmen were leaving as we came in this evening after I got off work and picked up all the kids from their various places and deposited S and Robert at their destinations. Barbara, Matthew, and I made three trips with pantry & kitchen stuff. The kids helped me do some cleaning and unpacking of everything we took over tonight. :)

There is so much that needs to be done before we move in on Saturday, and I wish I had been able to get it packed up and ready to go better than I have. The boys will be such a huge blessing and help again this time, even more so since Matthew has grown up so much in the time we've been here in N.C.!!! I'm thinking Rob will just have to help them some and give them directions, and they should be able to do most of the heavy work. We still have to rent a dolly somewhere for the boys & Rob to use... Oh, another thing to remember tomorrow.

I can't but so need to take off tomorrow so that I can pack up the computer, the videos, the last bookshelf, my cedar chest & dresser.... As it is, I'll be throwing stuff in a box to let the boys and Rob move it, take it to the house & throw the stuff back into it. :) Not the best way, but it's the best I can do now. Saturday will be crazy busy with S having a scholarship interview bright & early Saturday morning, Rob having to get the moving truck early, Barbara having to be at the new house for the Lowe's people to set up the frig... It's going to be a wonderfully busy, hectic and rewarding day.

Here are the photos from the house. Hope you enjoy!

Living room before & after

Kitchen floor before & after

Almost Done, Almost There

Rob & I stopped by the house this evening to take a peek and see if we could catch the guys working on it. We thought it looked almost done last night. It is! And all I can say is - OH. MY. GOODNESS. WOW!!!!! The contractor even took the time to clean and polish up the kitchen cabinets and they just shine!!! So pretty!!!!!!! Tomorrow they will install the vapor barrier under the house, and the contractor is even going to make us new porch steps to the back door as they are pretty deteriorated, another thing not on our list for him to repair but which he is just going to do for us! We could not be more blessed & thankful or pleased with his work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know it's silly, but I feel a little guilty for such a blessing when others have it so hard. I know it is part of life, part of God's plan for us...., and there certainly were hard, very lean times in our life- not that long ago, but still I do. So I'm hoping we can use our blessing to bless others; we're trying to do that right now, and I hope He will provide us many opportunities to do so down the road.

I plan on going over tomorrow and taking the "after" photos and posting soon, not sure when, but soon. Well, I'm off to do something- not sure where to even start and so tired, but better try to do something.

My love to all!!!!!!!

Dr. Seuss fun & a BIG, HUGE, mess!!!

Due to the "great snowstorm of March 2009" :) we didn't get to do our Dr. Seuss Day activities last Monday, so our class postponed them to this Monday. We read, and then made and ate Green Eggs & Ham. Most of the kids liked them! :) Yum! Yum!

The kids LOVED picking on me by taking my hat today. :P What fun we have together!!! We had some fun getting silly poses in too today, and I took a photo of me in my special hat. Though I do really hate photos of me, this one wasn't too bad for me.

This next photo shows just how crazy and terribly, terribly MESSY our house is right now!!! Our lives feel a bit turned upside down with all this moving mess. :) I'm so looking forward to the work being done in the house, the moving being finished and the unpacking getting done too. Hoping much of that will be able to be done this weekend. If all goes as we hope & pray, I will try to get our kitchen & bathroom set up at the new house this Friday night. I have to go to a scholarship interview with S on Saturday morning, but we'll be moving sometime Saturday for sure!

Rob took our bedframe apart tonight. Here it is sitting on the carport. It's dark and almost bedtime by the time he got done, so we just gave up on moving it until another night. We took a couple quick carloads of stuff over and are calling it a night. I'll bet the neighbors will love this sitting out there, let alone our landlord if she drives by. Oh well, it's almost over. It's almost over. It's almost over. Just hope I get some sleep soon. :)

Okay, on that note, I'm off to try to get some sleep. Night world! Night family! Night God!