Thankful!

We're still above water over here...barely! In all our "moving" excitement, the sale on our current home totally fell through last week on the VERY day we were supposed to close. We were devastated, in disbelief and just so mad we didn't know what in the world to do!

We were, as many people do, depending on the equity in this house to get us into our new home. With no lump sum, we thought it was a lost cause and all of the money we've given to the builder would be gone. But, we were able to manipulate all the numbers to go forward with the new house and we were going to just take our chance on selling our old house. It's such a leap of faith for us. We don't want to go from owning 2 homes to living under a bridge!

As I pondered how silly all of this housing drama sounds, several things made me jump back into reality!

I wanted to jott down a few thoughts I've had in the last few weeks:

• It poured the other night and the thunder and lightning kept waking the boys up, so I went and slept in Jace's bed with him. They were instantly calmed by my presence. Jace even snuggled up to me so that we were forehead to forehead. He gave me the sweetest smile and I winked at him....he did his version of a wink back to me. Then he drifted back to sleep! MELT, MELT!!!
• Cade hurt his foot by jumping off the bed Friday night(I know, it sounds like a song we sing around here). He bruised it so much he couldn't put weight on it for 2 days. Suddenly my independent toddler was transformed into a dependent toddler. He either crawled around pretending to be a doggy or else I had to hold him. It was so pathetic to see him WANT to go outside to play but he knew it would hurt his knees if he crawled. By the end of Saturday, my back and arms were killing me. It really made me realize how extremely lucky we are to have healthy children with no disabilities or hindrances of any kind in their daily lifes. SO SO THANKFUL! (Luckily by Sunday afternoon he started to stand and take steps on it. He has a pretty good bruise on his foot so I know it's still VERY sore. Today he was walking with just a slight limp).
• Jace thinks it's so funny to get a kiss from someone and then WIPE it off. He will wipe my kisses off all day and just laugh and laugh. But when it's night night time and I tuck him in, he gives me the best kiss that his big juicy lips can pucker up and he announces "I not wipe kiss off now". AGAIN...MELT, MELT.
• As grown up and independent as Brittney Marie can be these days, she still likes to have her mom around. She actually BEGS me to come and meet her for lunch. I need to take advantage of this time b/c she still wants me around...in a few years I'm sure this will all change! For now, she and Cade are still my little ducklings that follow me everywhere!

I am extremely thankful for my family! We are so blessed to have each other and also to have our health! I've been able to put my life into a little better perspective over all of this. I truly believe that things happen for a reason...we may not know or understand what the reason is at the time. So after finding peace with our real estate decision, today we got a contract on our house to lease it for a year with intent to buy it after that! So, keep your fingers crossed for us!