umm hi????

I don't even think I know where to begin except to say Hi and wow and I'm sorry! I was going to look back at what I last posted (since I truly don't remember...yikes!) but now I've started typing and I don't want to take the time to do that. I think it was something about moving and not having internet? Sound close? If not--ohh well

I am officially 2 weeks into school and coming up on 2 months in this house. It's been crazy and yet at the same time I just have to share with you how happy I am. So many puzzle pieces to put together for you...but I will do my best to get there.

I don't have many...okay no pictures of this house. But I do have this...This was what just one of our rooms looked like the day of and the days after our move...

Can you say wow! Just looking at this picture---I cringe. I think the picture would be much worse if I was standing next to those piles, and if you knew I'm standing on a floor that is at least a foot taller that the one that those boxes are sitting on. :)

I have a post all ready for tomorrow about my new classroom. :) I can't wait to share that with you. Hopefully I will be a more frequent visitor from now on. I had 1000+ posts in my reader, but that's only because it stops counting at 1000. I'm sure it was thousands more than that. hahah

Not a Simple Saturday

Today started off like most other Saturdays...waking up and heading to Rita's after a quick shower to make ice and get the store ready for the day. Only this time things didn't go quite as planned. I'm not sure any of you know this, but it takes us about 20 minutes to drive to Rita's by using our local highway. Yes 20 minutes going 70 mph. (It technically includes 5-7 minutes of town driving, but still).

Anyway, we were driving down the highway and all of a sudden, I hear Greg say "Wow!". I'm not sure if this means something is coming from behind us, or I wasn't paying attention to the sports radio that he was listening to. I of course think the worst possible scenario (a car is flying up from behind us and about to hit us) so I ask "what?". A few moments later, he says "my temperature gauge sky rocketed". Sure enough I glance over and the guage is ABOVE the red. yikes! So we pull over and call Greg's dad who used to work for a car dealership. He confirmed our suspicions that it probably wasn't good. So my in-laws came and rescued us.

They brought coolant and water along to see if we could quickly diagnose and remedy the situation. While re-filling the coolant, we hear splashing...and look under the car to see it quickly gushing out of the car. So of course, not good. Greg's dad notices that a hose wasn't connected, hence the leaking and therefore why the car was overheating. Without the proper tools we could properly re-attach the hose, so I went on to Rita's in another car while Greg went home to make sure our broken car got home and then he joined me at Rita's later.

We were all pretty sure it was just the hose that needed reconnecting. We were so glad and hoping that would be a quick & cheap fix. Greg and I finished at Rita's and a couple hours came home to find out that the car made it straight to the repair shop to have it checked. However, the other words we heard were...

"It's not good news"

"The car didn't survive"

"I think it's time to call it quits with this car" (from the mechanic)

Turns out the car needs AT LEAST a new head gasket (aka $1,000+). Now normally for people who drive a 14 year old car with 224,000 miles on it, that would be exciting because that means a new car. However for people without real jobs, that isn't at all the case.

So we are now a one-car-family...just not by choice. And trying to figure out what to do next. Thank the Lord school is over and it's summer, so Rita's is really the only place we got separately right now. I wonder what else God has up his sleeve for us.

I.O.U.

I owe you a post. It feels like it's been forever. I actually wrote a couple other posts but opted not to post them simply because they were written by a girl in a HUGE life funk. So while I'm trying to get past it here are some pictures to catch you up on the past week.

A Saturday walk @ the women's retreat during my photography lesson.

My view Mondays-Fridays

My "fr-enemy". The custard machine and I have a
love-hate relationship. It's learning that I'm in charge.

Saturday we left @ 4am to drive to New Jersey for
a half marathon. [more on this to come]

Me and niece #2
**dreaming & wandering when God will grant me
one of these**

The beginning of my Prayer Journal