Monday, July 11, 2011

Wait where did June go?

It seems like I was just dealing with snow and here it is July already. We've already had the fireworks and they feel like just a blur. Life is traveling very fast right now. Most of it is caused by the lack of substitutes at work, due to one factor or another. I am working 6 days a week now, most of the time and that does not leave much time for anything else.
Our summers are so much cooler than the ones we had in Florida, yet I find myself not being able to take the heat. My comfort zone seems to be in the 70's now and anything above that really throws me for a loop. I guess I'm getting old.
Our lawnmower died a very painful and long death. The motor kept going, but it's poor transmission...well it has issues. Our friend Randy and Will tried taking it apart and fixing it. No go. So, we found one on Craig's list and Will and Randy are on their way to pick it up now. Randy is going to put our engine into his mower with no engine and that way something good will come out of all of this. The best part is that prayerfully, we will have a mowed lawn that did not require hours of walking behind a small push mower.
I am still having minor health issues. I call them minor in comparison to some people I know. My main frustration is that there is no rhyme or reason to when mine will strike. Usually, it is at the least convenient moment. I will go on though.
We leave Wednesday to take my youth group to Sonshine. A Christian music festival in Minnesota. It's for 4 days and they are really looking forward to it. Of course now is when my stomach decides to go crazy. I stayed home today because I've been awake almost all night for 3 nights now in pain. It comes and goes, but it's very frustrating. They want to do exploratory surgery, but until I get a sub at work (it's in the works) I'm stuck.
I'm praying that this will be a life-changing trip for each and every one of us that are going. I am looking forward to basking in the love of Jesus and hopefully being able to put everything else to the side and just letting God's love be my main focus. It sounds pretty refreshing.
On the upside/downside...Will and I are trying to make major life changes here. We are downsizing. We even found a house that we would like to have that would enable us to hopefully become debt free in about 3 years or less. The main problem we are having is this house. It's a wonderful house, but we would need to have that house, paint it and do some minor repair, move in to it and then sell this one. It pretty much needs to be in that order.
We will see what God has in his plans for us. We would love that house. We would love being debt free. I would love being closer to my parents, church and Cranfest and would love having less of a work load, but I don't want it, if it is not what God wants for us. Meanwhile, we wait on his plans...