Did I mention we moved this last month? Because, yes we did.
I feel rather like God said, "Be content and trust in me....now let me kick you in the rear and move you on to somewhere new. All during which I expect you to apply these lessons in contentment and trust."
Sigh. And so in the past month:
- I've hit a low point in dealing with a certain child
- Lost all trust and a great deal of respect several times over for my then administrators
- Found myself in yet another swirling whirldwind of God moving in our lives quickly and decisively including getting hired for a job without ever formally interviewing, visiting where we would be moving to, or even meeting our new boss in person until we had already been settling in for a few weeks!
- Started packing before having a place to go
- Said farewell to some good friends
- Dealt with Turtle and Kitty Cat moving to another cottage with only one day's notice (not a happy move for any of us)
- Gained a new girl a few days before we left
- Said goodbye to all our girls
- Packed up my house
- Carved pumpkins (Baby Q ate some of his--Blue got bored and we wound up drawing a face on hers)
- Gotten physicals and TB tests--the day we were leaving Hot Springs
- Met three new babies of good friends
- Said farewell to our beautiful Calista as she went to live with another family (we can't have a dog here and she would not have done well with the long move)
- Traveled to Springfield--twice in the span of three weeks
- Driven a car (with Baby Q in the back seat) while Chris drove a van with all our worldly goods (and one Blueberry who was thrilled with driving with her daddy) from Arkansas to North Carolina via Missouri
- Acquired one ticket for expired tags
- Reunited with a wonderful family and ex-co-workers, now current co-workers
- Worked on unpacking into our 900 square foot house--still in the process of downsizing
- Rejoiced in living somewhere with windows--lots of windows
- Got a new driver's license
- Renewed our car tags (ahem)
- Visited Hillery and family who now live only 3.5 hours away
- Driven through gorgeous scenery of fall in the mountains
- Worried over a very hot, very sick little boy who turned out to have caught a case of Roseola before leaving Hot Springs
- Visited and fallen in love with Ikea (even better than I ever imagined)
- Met a whole bunch of new people/co-workers
- Watched my son start pulling up and standing on everything and then start creeping along while standing
- Watched my daughter grow another inch and suddenly become Miss Independence
- And got to go on a date and watched Ender's Game
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