Starting back up

I'm going to try to get this blog going again. My work blocked the site and that is where I was entering stuff in the past but now that I only have 4 more days in the office I thought I would try to blog while at home. So many of you have asked us to stay in touch, this may be the easiest way to do that.
An Update:
We sold our house about 3 weeks ago and will be moving to Post Falls, Idaho next Tuesday, September 29, 1009. We are so very excited about this. We have been given free housing with Jack and Dollee Meredith so all of our furniture and many other things have been moved to storage for the next year. We are only taking what will fit in our two little cars and a rented mini van that my parents will drive to help us move.
A few things on our list to bring: Clothes, books, 42" TV, golf clubs, sewing machine, computer...
I found out last week that my work has approved me to work remote until the end of the year. What an awesome blessing this is!

More Stuff

I'm in the process of finding out that I am having some problems with my thyroid. I've had tests run and had an ultrasound and now tomorrow I'm being sent to the endocrinologist. I'm not sure what is going on or how good or bad it is. But I do know that it's creating some additional emotional stress to be dumped on top of all my other stuff. I'm fighting an urge to crawl in bed and cry but I know that doesn't do anything so am doing my best to deal with it. If you think of me, can you please pray that God would grant me some peace at this time in my life.

I was reading in Ezekiel this morning, totally not my book of choice, but I felt God bringing a passage to life for me. Ezekiel 33: " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it. 35 They will say, "This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited." 36 Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.'
Idaho came to my mind when I was reading this. What an awesome promise for God to make. I started praying that I wanted God to use me in making this promise come true for Idaho. I don't know what it would look like and who am I to do anything great, but Lord I'm here to go if you want me. Then I read the next verse:
37 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Once again I will yield to the plea of the house of Israel and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep, 38 as numerous as the flocks for offerings at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Why would anyone not want to serve this God!

3 weeks later

Well, I've only missed one day of working out. Otherwise I've done at least 30 minutes everyday. PLUS, no extra sugar for the month of January. The no sugar part hasn't been too bad except for the times I have gone to dinner with others and they have dessert. February, I'm going to allow myself to have sugar during those special times but no other time. We will see how that goes. -I think I've lost about 6 pounds. Only 14 more to go. :)

Working out again

Now that the holiday's are over, Dan and I have decided to get back into the working out and losing weight routine. Today is day three. I'm very proud of my husband. He has gotten up with me at 5AM!! for the last three days. Dan is someone who would rather get up at 10AM and go to bed at 2AM. However, when I left for work at 7:20 this morning, he was crawling back into bed. :) He has plenty of time to adjust. I've lost 1.5 pounds already. That just shows I have plenty to go.

We had a no show house showing on Saturday, we are hoping they will try to make another appointment soon and another New showing today! It's been about one showing every 3 weeks. Which we have been encouraged about. Hopefully one of these times someone will actually make an offer.

Dan started working two days a week at the Robinsdale school district. He's helping in a tutoring center with highschoolers who would like to go to college. So far it's not very challenging or exciting but it provide 12 hours of income which we are thankful for. He is hoping to get some info on becoming a Math sub there on the off days.

Dan is once again preaching at the Blaine Highschool this Sunday (1/11) at 10:00. Feel free to join us.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We sure did.

2000 Miles

Well, my mom has decided to move back to Minnesota for the next 3 months. I know, not a great time to be in town, especially since yesterday's high was -4 but she is here. My dad is going to stay in CA. I flew out to CA on Wednesday afternoon and started the 2000 mile drive back on Thursday. It went really well! We counted about 30 hours in the car. We started out between 6 and 6:30 each morning and was in around 7:30. Long days but not late nights. It was kind of fun and I would do it again. The most fun thing we saw were 3 cowboys. Real cowboys on horses, driving cattle! For a city girl, this was quite fun. We also saw a coyote eating road kill, that was the only wild life we saw in the whole drive. We were suprised that the thing didn't care one bit that a car driving 50 (I slowed down to look) was within 8 feet of him.

While Mom is in town, she will be working hard on the book she is writing and doing a lot of counselling . I hope to have her help me pick out some new fabric and do a little 30 day cooking. It will be fun to have her here but hard knowing that my Dad is on his own back in CA.
Please pray for my parents, that they can work some things out while they are apart.

Two Showings

We had two house showings this month! These were the first two we have had. Our realtor is trying hard to get a hold of their realtors to get some feed back but so far no luck. Not sure what that is about. - Dan and I have decided to looking into renting out the house. I have a list of things to look into and hope to have it completed by early next week. If you know of anyone looking to rent, please keep us in mind.

Did you know my mom is writing a book? She is, I'm really excited for her. It's about her ministry and different types of healing God has performed in peoples lives. I'm helping her edit it. Yeah, I know know, I thought that was funny too. But Mom says I'm doing a good job and I'm enjoying it.

Dan has picked up a few tutoring jobs for the evenings. He's also trying to break into the substitute teaching field but so far no luck. I of course can't help but wonder if he's not getting a job because we aren't suppose to be here.

Please pray that the house will work out for someone and that Dan can connect with Doug in Idaho to get some things in place for our move out there.

I hope your Thanksgiving Holiday is a good one!

Dan is now 30!

Dan's 30th Birthday was on Sunday, November 9th. We gave him a big party Saturday night and 40 friends and family came to join us. Including my parents and Kylie and Jesse who flew in for the event. It has been fun spending the weekend with everyone.

We have no news on the house, still now showings. Our next through is it rent it out. I'm leaning towards a Jan 1 date but am still waiting for Dan to decide what he would like to do. Everything has been slow and getting a bit frustrated. We have even talked about Dan heading out on his own for a month or two.

Dan started a new part time job. He is now tutoring after school at Silvan Learning Center. They were excite to get a guy with a math degree who actually still remembers how to do it to join the team. I don't think they have a regular schedule worked up yet but at least it will be a little cash coming through. He's also looking into possible doing a little substitute teaching. It's hard to know what to do if we are going to leave in the next month or two. Again, more decisions.

Dan and I just started leading a new Sunday morning group at church. Our topic is Following God's Will. We are to come with a decision we are trying to make in our life and we will explore what God's Word says regarding his desires for our lives. Yesterday went really well and we were excited to see 8 others join us. It will be fun to see what Dan learns from this group. :)

I'm going on a 5 day quilt retreat this weekend!! I'm so excited, it's our longed one yet. I figured if it was going to be my last then it may as well be a good one, right? We take off around noon on Friday and head up to Camp Lebanon in Upsala, MN. We will then stay there until Tuesday doing nothing but quilting, eating great food, giggling until late hours into the night with little sleep. I know, your jealous right? :) I'm really looking forward to it. There are going to be 12 of us in our group out of the 150 women at camp that weekend.

This is probably enough info for you all at once. Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. It's been hard to share when there isn't much to share in the areas we really want things to be happening. I do have one request though, please don't try to be funny in telling us that you are praying for our house Not to sell. This is starting to become a real sore spot for me. It's ok if you are sad that we are leaving, this is wonderful to hear but this is something that both Dan and I really want to do.

Thanks for reading! I hope you have a great week.