I am alive...barely!

Oh the joys of moving....NOT! For those of you who don't know, we moved about 3 weeks ago, and I doubt my life will ever be the same...in a good way! While this move has been the healthiest change in our lives, it has been the most stressful 3 weeks of my life. I have kind of shut down, and taken to my new home in retreat mode. I won't go into all of the gory details, but lets just say there is a light, even in this unseasonable rain, there is a light.

Mitch called me at work about the time we were getting ready to move and told me that he had called his former boss and asked if they needed any electricians. He knew they would since his brother was moving. I was shocked...I had been begging him to sell the blasted tanning salon and go back to school....I didn't care what he went to school for, I just wanted him to find a career, and not just another j.o.b. I was at work when he revealed this aha moment with me, so I couldn't exactly jump for joy. I have felt a huge sense of relief. It will be hard not having him home in the mornings with us like I have been used to for the last 18 months, but just having him bringing home a PAYCHECK is worth it....so, if you know anyone who wants to buy a tanning salon...send them my way!

We love our new house and our new neighbors, and our new yard, and our new tiny mortgage, and our new sense of freedom from our big, beautiful, custom, expensive house with it's big suffocating mortgage. I kind of laugh when I think of our lives 18 months ago...we had it made. We had everything we could have ever wanted. But, just as The Lord gives, The Lord taketh away...and we have surely been put through the refiners fire in the last year and a half. Are we better for it??? I am not sure yet. But what I do know is that we will be...some day. I think we both still have a lot to learn, and a lot to change, and a lot to overcome. I know that 6 years ago tomorrow August 8th, I married a man who I knew loved me, and who would always be worthy of his Priesthood, and who would help me as my partner overcome any obsticle, and here we are at the tail end of the hardest time in our marriage so far, and we are both still in tact...a bit ruffled, but still in tact, and that same man kept all of his promises, and he still loves me, he is still worthy of his Priesthood, and, we are going to get through this as partners. Life is funny, and life is unpredictable, but so goes it right?!?!

We are so thankful for this second chance and we hope to learn everything that The Lord wants us to so that we NEVER have to go through this again! Thanks to all of you for your prayers and support! I love you all so much! I promise to have some pics up soon of the house! We really do love it. It is amazing how much more at peace we ALL are here!
I just had to put a picture of this cute kid on my post! He is loving his new huge yard with a FENCE! I just let him run around naked he is so happy!