A House Progressing

Wow, have we been busy! We have been working on the house quite a lot since last Friday and are making great progress. On Monday, it didn't really seem like we were making progress at all, but as we look at it now, I think we're beginning to see a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel. There is still much to be done, but we can at least see that we are putting a dent in the things we wanted to do. We are EXTREMELY grateful to our church family and one lady in particular. She offered to help us paint and has actually done more than I have. For the last three days, she's gotten at the house before I have and has done marvelous work. As it turns out, she loves to paint and makes quick work of a big project. I am eternally indebted to her for all her hard work. She recruited another lady from church to come and help tomorrow so we shall be able to accomplish even more! Folks are going to begin providing meals for us tomorrow which will also be a tremendous blessing! What a blessing it is to see the body of Christ work together and what a humbling experience to be on the receiving end of such work. I just can't put into words how blessed we feel by these people. The Lord has us in a place where we are physically far from our own family, but He has blessed us beyond measure with an amazing church family. They are very good to us and we are very grateful.

We shall take some pictures of the process of getting the house in order and will get those posted soon. (We got a new camera and I have NO clue how to use it so I am dependent upon Lon at this point!) I think it's going to be a tremendous blessing to us once we've got it completed and are able to get moved in. I'm looking forward to it being done and slowing down just a bit. As I told Lon last night, burning the candles at both ends is beginning to catch me in the middle. I remind myself that it is but for a season!

The girls are having great fun spending time with Nonie and we are extremely grateful for all that she's done while she's been here. I know how very hard it is to look after these girls day after day and her help has freed me up to get so much more done than I could have gotten done without her here. We're trying to figure out how we're going to make it all work next week when she goes home!! I think we'll be doing shift work!

Well, off to pack . . .myself to bed!