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Two posts, two days in a row.  I'm on a roll.  :)    Yesterday I said how wonderful the weather was, well today as promised it's cold and yucky out again.  :(    Oh well, we knew it was coming. 

Zach and I were talking last night, I was washing my face (gotta take off all that pretty make-up before bed) and he was getting ready for bed , and I mentioned that the RV feels like home.  He said that he agrees, it feels more like home than anywhere we've ever lived.  It's so strange in this country to imagine how someone could be happy living in 300 square feet, but we do. 

We were watching the house hunting shows on HGTV last night and I get so irritated at people when it's just two people looking for a four or five bedroom house (why on earth do they need all that space for two people?????).  Then when they realize that the house they want is at the top of their price range or even out of it, they go ahead and get it anyway.  Do you think maybe you are contributing to the problem this country is having with foreclosures.  When you get a house you can barely afford, then the bank takes it because you couldn't make your payments anymore, don't complain.  You did it to yourself.  Yes, the banks shouldn't have given you that much money, but you should have known better than to take it. 

Don't even get me started on the realtors that show them houses that they can't afford.  Then when no one can sell houses because everyone is foreclosing they wonder what happened.  Maybe you should show them houses in their price range.  Everyone wants to blame everyone else, but no one wants to take responsibility for their part.

Anyway, a home is not what you live in, it's wherever you make it.  You could be at home in a tent, you could be at home under a bridge.  If you have Jesus in you and in your life, then wherever you are will be home.  When you walk into someones home and it's comfortable and inviting, Jesus is there.  He is all that is good and without him then it's just an empty shell.

Now that I've probably offended a lot of people (I really don't care though, people in this country get offended if you sneeze the wrong way), tomorrow is Autumn's 4th birthday.  She is such a big girl now.  I don't know how I feel about her turning 4.  Part of me is so happy because she is doing so well and I'm so proud of her, but the other part of me is so sad because she is my last baby and she is no longer a baby.  :(   We are not having a party for her, she has made a lot of progress, but still doesn't do great at parties and the last thing we want to do is overwhelm her.  Zach has to work tomorrow, so we are going to eat lunch with him and then I am going to take her to the girls high school basketball game.  She loves going to them, so we thought that it would be a great ending to her birthday.

Until next time.....

Weather and Covenants

Hello friends.  Today is a beautiful day. The weather is absolutely gorgeous, it's about 58 degrees and that is the warmest it's been in more than a week.  Here in Sunny Florida we've been getting into the teens at night and not over the 30's in the day.  It's been down right cold.  All you northerners think that's not so bad, but please remember that you actually own winter coats, we Floridians however do not.  This isn't normal and I don't like it. 

I was born and raised in Northern Indiana, so I know cold.  But alas these bones have gotten so used to the warm that I can't take much more of this cold stuff.  It looks like if we can make it through Sunday we should be ok, today's warmth is a fluke.  We are supposed to get cold again through Sunday and then the weather channel is saying we will warm up again.  I sure hope so.

Other than the weather things have been good except two days ago we woke up to no water in the RV because our hose outside had frozen overnight.  So now we are taking better precautions.  Zach goes outside everynight and undoes it from the RV and pipes, then he drains it out so no water will be left in it to freeze.  Then in the morning he goes and reattaches everything.  He's such a wonderful husband.  I love him.

Today was my first day back at the cookhouse in two weeks.  We closed for the Christmas and New Year holiday time.  It was so good to be back and working again.  I missed it so much.  We had a great time being all together again.  We even had a new lady come and volunteer today.  YAY!!!!!

So for the new year has everyone made resolutions????  And how many of you have broken them already???  I've made several and they aren't really resolutions, they are more like covenants with God.  My main goal this year is to care less about what the world thinks of me and more about what God thinks of me.  Because when you think about it he's the only one that really matters.  I want to become more of the person he wants me to be and less of the person I am.  I love him and want to show the world that.

So I'm not going to share my covenants right now.  Maybe as the year goes and I need support with them I will, but for now I'm keeping them to me and God.  Well  my husband knows them too, but even he's not allowed to read my prayer journal.  It's me between me and my Daddy in heaven.

So I'll part with you for now.  But I'll hopefully write again tomorrow.

Don't be concerned for your own good but for the good of others.  1 Corinthians 10:24

Day one, again?

I started to write this on my phone on Sunday, but we had some sick Autumn issues and I didn't have the chance to finish it.  So, here we go again.  Sunday was day one, again (so today is techincally day 4).  We are officially fulltiming in our RV.  We moved in after church on Sunday.  Then yesterday we went to the beach house, cleaned it out and left the keys.  I think that  makes it feel a little more official. 

We are staying at Famcamp on base.  Today the kids and I are at the clubhouse because Zach worked from 7 pm to 7 am last night and is trying to sleep.   Plus there is internet access here.  The kids are playing pool, well Gavin is trying to play and Autumn is getting in his way.  :)

We've had some learning experiences already.  We keep popping our breakers by overloading them too much.  It's taking some getting used to, but we are figuring it out.  We are also learning how to take fast showers so we don't fill our grey water tank up too fast.  We are not at a full hook up site, so we have to either borrow a portable tank to drain our galley and grey tanks or move the whole thing to the dump station.  I think we're going to borrow the portable tanks. 

But that's that for now.  Now that we are here and have easy internet access I'm hoping to get back into the habit of being able to update several times a week.

Until we meet again...

Good afternoon. I hope things are well with you. Autumn and I went to Tennessee this weekend to get Gavin for Christmas break. My mom and sister brought him down and we spent the weekend with them there. It was a nice visit, but I was happy to come home. 

We told Gavin about moving into the rv and he is pretty excited about it.  We will be staying in it tomorrow and hopefully the next day too. We haven't stayed in it yet, so it will be our maiden voyage. Everyone is really excited.

I am listening to the kids playing in here right now and I am starting to second guess living here. ;)  There will be no where to hide from them at.

I think we have everything we need to start our lives in here. It's kinda hard to believe we are so close to living in here.  I will update after our first voyage and let you know how it went.  

Until then.....

18 Days To Go

So I am still typing this on my phone.  It's such a crazy life right now. I have been working on Christmas cards all morning.  Autumn and I are headed to Tennessee on Friday to pick Gavin up for Christmas. :) We are meeting my mom and sister there for the weekend.  I am so excited. Zach has to work, so he can't come with us. :(
We spent some time working in the RV yesterday. It was so much fun to be out there in it. Autumn loves it. She plays in her "room". We are telling Gavin when he gets here for Christmas. I want him to see it before we drop the news on him. It's a lot to take in and I want it to go as smoothly as possible. He will be here when we move into it. I hope that will help the transition too.

Until next time. :)

Moving in Three Weeks

So apparently I can't figure out how to type anymore at the end of my post.  Maybe someday I will figure out how to be smarter than my phone.  But it doesn't look as though today will be that day.

Hey there. I hope everyone is doing great. We are still in the beach house with no internet access so posting is still sporadic.  I am actually typing this post on my new phone.  It's interesting to say the least.

We were planning on moving into the rv at the end of January, but we've moved the date up to the end of December.  We are going to start the new year off in it.  I am so excited. It's only 3 weeks away.  :)

There has been some other changes too.  We now have a doggy in our family.  Her name is Meesha.  She is a 5 year old pug.  She may very well be the best dog on earth.  She is sitting and cuddling with me as I type this. I love her.

So Much Going On

Wow.  I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a while.  So much has been going on I just haven't had the time.  Where to start???  Well first thing, we closed on our house!!!!!!  We closed on Tuesday the 3rd.  Everything went smooth.  Well almost everything.  Apparently the washer and dryer were supposed to be included with the house and we had already sold them.  But it was to a girl in Zach's shop and we were able to buy them back from her and take them back to the house.  :)   So that disaster was averted.

Let's see......We have moved into a beach house here.  A couple at the church we've been attending has a beach house (it's a vacation rental home that is already furnished) that they aren't using and have offered to let us stay there rent free for the next three months.  So that's where we are living now.  We hadn't even met these people but they heard our story of what we are doing from the pastor and were so impressed that they wanted to help us.  So this is their way to help us.  :)  What a blessing.  God is so good.

So we bought the RV last night.  We paid for it and are heading over today to do our walk through and learn how everything works.  We thought about not buying it because we are staying in the beach house, but decided that we would rather have it ready to go so when they need us to leave the beach house we can just up and go. They won't have to wait on us to find someplace first.  So we get to pick it up today and now we can take our time getting everything just right in it.  :)

We drove to Clermont this past weekend to take my aunt the tv (she bought it).  We rented a van and drove down on Thursday night.  Friday morning we got up and drove to Tampa to go to Busch Gardens...that was so much fun.  Perfect weather an NO LINES!!!!!!  We rode the roller coasters so many times without even having to get off.  It was great.  Then we went to Jungala and rode one of the rides there that brings you up and just drops you down.  Autumn was just tall enough to ride it and since there was practically no one there we got to ride over and over without getting off.  She loved it.

Well we left there Friday night and headed back to Clermont then Saturday morning we got up and headed home.  It was a busy busy couple of days.  Clermont is about 6 hours from us and Tampa is about 2 hours from Clermont.  Lots of driving (it was a rental so it didn't matter too much.  :)  ) 

So that's a little of what's been going on.  Hopefully soon I'll be able to tell a little more in depth about the beach house and what we're going to be starting to work on to help others.  But for now I need to go and eat my lunch.  MMMMMM

Until next time.......