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I've been a blog neglector lately. Life hasn't been all the exciting, but it's been kind of fun. Last week Steve, Dale & Jacqueline came to visit me for a few days and that was a lot of fun. A few days later I hopped in the car and headed to St. Louis to welcome Caleb into the world. Isn't he so sweet?
I had a great weekend in St. Louis visiting with friends and it was SO hard for me to head back to Madison. I made a pit stop in Chicago to do some shopping at Ikea on the way home so that made me feel a little better.
It's worked out really nice this last month where almost every weekend I've had one friend or another come up to visit so it's been fun to see friends and Steve has come along with them.
This weekend Steve is coming up with Pat & Julie and I'm so excited! The weekend after that is moving weekend so it will be my Steve and Steve M and from what I heard Chris, Dan & Amy are maybe going to be stopping by to Madison to see us and help with unpacking the moving truck.
That will be one busy weekend! Because the house we're buying makes me want to vomit with the dog pee smell we'll be tearing out all the carpet and giving the house a good clean before we move anything in. Two weeks after we move in Dale & Jacq will be heading up here to live in the basement, so I'm hoping i can get everything in order by myself before they get here.
I'm super excited about our nice kitchen! Our house in Dupo had such a small kitchen and although this one isn't huge it's quite a bit bigger and has brand new stainless appliances! All we need is a dishwasher. If any one has suggestions on where to get a good deal on dishwashers let me know!
The place we're buying has so much potential, it just needs a bit of work and a really good cleaning! Most of it will be minor though and totally worth it for the good deal we good and hopefully the money it will bring us in a few years if we choose to sell.
All in all life is good. It's been rough living with out Steve. We're going into week 5 now. We didn't think it would be this long that he would have to stay back in St. Louis, but we know that God has plans in store that we don't yet see and He's given us a lot of grace for this rough season. Does it suck? Yes, totally....but we're learning a lot and learning what it really means to say that we put our trust in God in a totally different degree than we've had to trust Him before.
I had a great weekend in St. Louis visiting with friends and it was SO hard for me to head back to Madison. I made a pit stop in Chicago to do some shopping at Ikea on the way home so that made me feel a little better.
It's worked out really nice this last month where almost every weekend I've had one friend or another come up to visit so it's been fun to see friends and Steve has come along with them.
This weekend Steve is coming up with Pat & Julie and I'm so excited! The weekend after that is moving weekend so it will be my Steve and Steve M and from what I heard Chris, Dan & Amy are maybe going to be stopping by to Madison to see us and help with unpacking the moving truck.
That will be one busy weekend! Because the house we're buying makes me want to vomit with the dog pee smell we'll be tearing out all the carpet and giving the house a good clean before we move anything in. Two weeks after we move in Dale & Jacq will be heading up here to live in the basement, so I'm hoping i can get everything in order by myself before they get here.
I'm super excited about our nice kitchen! Our house in Dupo had such a small kitchen and although this one isn't huge it's quite a bit bigger and has brand new stainless appliances! All we need is a dishwasher. If any one has suggestions on where to get a good deal on dishwashers let me know!
The place we're buying has so much potential, it just needs a bit of work and a really good cleaning! Most of it will be minor though and totally worth it for the good deal we good and hopefully the money it will bring us in a few years if we choose to sell.
All in all life is good. It's been rough living with out Steve. We're going into week 5 now. We didn't think it would be this long that he would have to stay back in St. Louis, but we know that God has plans in store that we don't yet see and He's given us a lot of grace for this rough season. Does it suck? Yes, totally....but we're learning a lot and learning what it really means to say that we put our trust in God in a totally different degree than we've had to trust Him before.
2 Comments:
that's rough! I didn't realize that you were living up there without him all this time!
appliances: go to sears. get the credit card if they don't have a sale on.. we do that for our rentals that own, since it's always worked out cheaper.
do a consumer reports search before you go to see what's best. if you don't have consumer reports let me know, aand i'll look them up for you.
:)
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