Blessings: The House

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The House

We are finally homeowners. The thought is a little terrifying but exciting at the same time. We were fortunate to have wonderful realtors or we probably would have wimped out and would be in a rental! Our house hunting began with Penny and Jim Johnson of Long Realty, and what a comfort and relief that as we got to know them to find out that their hearts are into pleasing God. We owe them so much as they professionally guided us towards our home goal.

We spent about 2 and a half weeks house hunting. I know this does not seem like a long time, but with four kids in tow and 100 degree weather...the days started dragging quickly! We had some decisions to make. 1. Purchase an affordable house 30-45 minutes outside of Tucson and spend more on gas or 2. Purchase a smaller house closer to Tucson and spend more on the house payment. Either way, we realized quickly that we were gonna be pretty much broke! lol! As a two week time period came to an end we found ourselves praying at least 3 times a day for a house. Charlie especially was wording the sweetest prayers always adding "in your time, with your will". It's amazing how a even a nine year old can understand how God can move in our lives.

God opened doors for us and we are thankful. We decided on our house because of the location. With the soaring gas prices we did not want to be located too far from the base or the local congregation. We found a foreclosure that had been marked down the day before we looked at it. The new price had not even been listed yet. It is a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, double garage with 2500+ sqft. It also offered a huge backyard which is very difficult to come by so close to town. Pluses for mommy was a huge kitchen and a garden tub in the master bdrm. I know you may still be thinking about that 3 bdrm with the 4 kids! Upstairs there is also a HUGE loft. So after a quick family meeting, Charlie decided he would take the loft as long as he could have the TV that Rich and Connie gave us in it and the school computer. lol! You really saved us Rich & Connie! lol!

We are getting settled into Tucson, but miss our OH family like crazy! Our time here is scheduled for at least 4 years during in which we hope the housing market sky rockets!lol!

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A mothers love is truly cherished even when it isn't acknowledged

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~Sophia Loren

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
~William Goldsmith Brown

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
~Pearl S. Buck

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~Washington Irving

Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
~Ann Taylor

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."
~Keith L. Brooks

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
~Author Unknown

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
~Joseph Joubert

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.
~Angelo Patri

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~Kent Nerburn

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
~Jean Paul Richter

I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. ~Adabella Radici

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~Gloria Naylor

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
~Louise J. Kaplan

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~John Gregory Brown

Children are our daily miracles..

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
~Lawana Blackwell

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
~Mary_MacCracken

"Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility"
~Kate Douglas Wiggin

"The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun"
~Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

"The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him."
~Pablo Casals (1876-1973)

"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger"
~Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

"A friend loveth at all times." - Proverbs 17:17

"The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb."
- German Proverb

"The best mirror is an old friend."

"May there always be work for your hands to do, may your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane, may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."
- Irish Blessing

"A cheerful friend is like a sunny day spreading brightness all around."
- John Lubcock

" A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."
- Arabian Proverb

"It is better to be in chains with friends , than to be in a garden with strangers."
-Persian Proverb

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."

~Samuel Johnston

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
- Epicurus (341 - 270 BC)

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
- Socrates

"When true friends meet in adverse hour;
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between."
- Sir Walter Scott

"Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time."

"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance."
-Proverbs 27:17

Blessings

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The House

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Distance Means so little, when someone means so much.

Good Times

You are my friends and I am honored

My family nourishes my soul..

A memory that I hope my children will treasure is our gingerbread neighborhoods

A mothers love is truly cherished even when it isn't acknowledged

Sending and receiving love warms the heart

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.

Children are our daily miracles..

"A friend loveth at all times." - Proverbs 17:17