I try not to let myself get overwhelmed too often, and I admit when I am overwhelmed even less... but let's be honest... I'm overwhelmed!
I currently feel like my whole world is out of control. I'll find out one week from today whether our lives will forever be changed by an additional child... uh, teenager. I have no control over this! I can't do anything to make us any more likely to become her parents. I simply have to trust that the state of Idaho will make the best decision for her placement and that God will do his will. It's comforting to know that God has a plan for her and for our family... but honestly it's also difficult having no idea what that plan is!
Meanwhile we're still surrounded by unfinished projects in our current home, including a broken toilet in our main bathroom that hasn't been working for about a month now (are any of you plumbers?), a ceiling that needs to be drywalled and textured (uh, we don't exactly know how to do this), a door that needs to be cut to the right size so it can open fully, cabinets that need to be painted, a few walls that still need to be finished (anyone have one of those ladders that you can use to paint stairwells?)... you get the hint? Lot's of stuff, lots of money, little time...
We're also highly considering putting both of our homes on the market in well, a bad market. We know we'll be in need of an additional bedroom here very soon because Leeann and Titus can't share a bedroom forever and we found a house that is everything (well almost) we could want in a great neighborhood at an incredible price (incredible price for the house but still stretching for our budget). In order for us to be able to afford it though God needs to do some huge things. Like, sell both of our houses quickly, by owner, in a bad market for a specific price.
On top of that there are several other crazy thing going on in our world that are all coming together to make me feel like my world is just plain out of control!
So, there you have it: my confession. I'm overwhelmed! Small group got cancelled tonight so Rob and I have plans to sit down and write down all that we need to do so we can start plucking through some of our tasks and make some attempts at feeling like we're making progress in the midst of craziness. Yeah, we'll see if that helps, or adds to my frenzy!
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Oh my!!! What neighborhood are you looking at? Do you need to get away and have your hair played with (or would that just add one more thing to the list???)?
Actually, it's right down the street from you! On Alameda... the 2002 square foot plan. You should take a look at it :0)
I thought I couldn't get my hair cut for another few weeks yet... but Leeann is certainly in need of little 'shaping up'! We'll have to make some plans soon!
Wow! That looks great! My sister-in-law was looking at the model home of those on Sunday. How fun would that be!
If you make an appointment with Jill for Leeann, I'll go at the same time! My hair is getting long again.... it needs some Jill time!
We were in the model home on Sunday too... and we liked it! Of course, we like the one with 5 bedrooms even better! Seriously, I'd live just a few houses away from you Jill, and I'd find that delightfully fun!
give us a call, we have recently cut doors, sheetrocked and textured a ceiling and painted. As far as fixing a tiolet goes...I can do some depending on what the problem is.
seriously call us we want ot see you two (4) anyway.
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