It’s 1am. Way to late too still be up, but my mind is going a mile a minute. I’m trying to blog each day, if not for the sake of consistency, for the fact that it lightens the amount of trivial verbal diarrhea I spew at my husband. Odd, I know, but for some reason when I’ve ‘emptied’ my noodle here, I feel less need to divulge every miniscule detail of my day to my sweet hubby {who inevitably struggles to follow and stay focused, and between gulping for air mutters, “really, cool babe. Wait, what was that?”}.
I trekked out with my younger sisters and our momma today to one of our favorite stores. Not Hobby Lobby {#1}. Not Trader Joe’s {#5. or something. I really don’t number them}. IKEA. I love IKEA. Even my dad loves IKEA. IKEA rocks my funky little world. And the fact that cricket got to play in a ball pit for an hour while I shopped my heart out {for the piddle price of luminescent yellow socks we pulled from the vending machine}, I was a happy girl. Bug moved from sister to mom to sister to cart to wrap on back where he promptly fell asleep. My younger sister and I purchased the most smashing shelving unit we’ve been coveting now for over a year. Mine is fully assembled and loaded, hence the early morning blog. I’m on a roll and foraging for things I can clean and organize. Grrrr! Sleep is for the weak!! {or those wise enough to call it a night before their offspring wake up to nurse at all hours of the morning. ahem}.
We heard most excellent news today, thank you Jesus! The senate has approved postponing the deadline for the tax credit we were relying on when we offered what we offered on this house. The $6500 credit which originally expired in 2 weeks – has been extended to September 30th. Now if we had to close by the date the bank if pushing for, August 6th {why on earth that far away I have no clue}, we would still qualify. This is HUGE! We were so disappointed that we would miss out on it because of all these delays, but now we’re good to go. As I said to my hubby today…I didn’t even think God could wrangle it so stunningly that we could get the tax credit AND live in this lovely house for a few months without rent/mortgage {the sellers are out and invited us to move in, payment free, because they’re not making payments due to the house being in short sale status}.
It is indeed true. God truly can take something that looks as though it’s falling apart and is beyond repair, and turn it into something phenomenally wonderful. Serendipitous, even. Hmm, I like that word. Should use it more. Serendipitous.
I digress.
More fun stuff…the hot tub that was not working now is. It’s even hot. I now need to change my ‘about me’ again. I changed it 2 days ago to ‘really wants to own a hot tub’ to ‘wants to own a working hot tub’. It works! How fabulous is that? Our entire fam has been soaking it up together for the past two evenings.
I love this home and property and find myself falling in love with it a little more every day. It’s as thought I’m beginning to trust a little more and allow myself to dig my toes into the soil a little more. How sweet is that?
Life rocks. God is cool. Even when things are going completely unlike we thought they would, or should, and life seems poopy, He is faithful.
The end.
Goodnight.
