My other kids & God's blessings.

As most of you know, leaving my sisters kids was the hardest thing I have ever done. We have done pretty well so far. I have been talking to them on the phone and shopping for them and sending them things. It didn't hit me until Thursday afternoon, when it hit me that I had started school and they hadn't started it with me. They will be attending Rogersville this year, which has truly been a blessing. Brady will be in the same building as J's aunt, who I adore and she adores Brady! Ashlee will be in the same building as Lindsay (my friend and former counselor at Sparta) and she will check on Ash for me. So, even if they don't know it, I will be keeping an eye on them, even if I am using others eyes to do so. It has been really hard leaving them but I know that this is where we are meant to be. So many things have been direct signs from God that I know we are on the right track. No one ever said change was easy.
I promised you all that I would share the story of the farm house....so hear is the shortened form! We found the farm house on a Monday, Jason and I were going back to Missouri that night to start packing up our house. I fell in love at first sight. It was the house I had always dreamed of and the farm J had always dreamed of. The price was in our range & it was in our 2nd choice for school districts. The lady that lived there had lived in the house since she was 9 and she will be 85 in November. She agreed to hold the house for a few days so we could make a decision. Well, I would have bought it that day BUT, we still had the land that had been on the market for almost 18 months and we just didn't want to bite off more than we could chew. So, I tried calling her Thursday night to tell her we just couldn't do it right now, but she didn't answer. I had prayed to God that if this was our house to send me a sign and he sent a BIG one. About 1 hour after I had given up on getting in touch with the lady that night, our phone rang. It was our realtor, with an offer on our land. With in an hour after that we had worked out a deal with the man and with in 10 days we had a check in hand and closed on it. I called the lady Friday morning and worked out a deal with her and HOPEFULLY, we will move in September 15th! God does take care of us. That week J also got a good job! We have truly been blessed to sale $100,000.00 worth of land and a house in this market is a gift directly from God.