So Many Blessings
So far it’s been a banner year here at the Point. Between the house fire in January and one daughter getting engaged and another having a baby and my car dying and having no fridge for months….and that’s just the highlight reel. I have hundreds of other smaller disasters happening all around me all the time just like you do I’m sure.
Thankfully we are back in our house. There is still one bathroom to finish and hopefully, if all goes according to plan (insert laughter), the bathroom will be finished at the beginning of August. I can’t believe how long this has taken! And we are still missing dishes and furniture and I just ordered the last of the window coverings. Blinds.com is my new BFF.
Why didn’t I just order them all at once, you ask? Because I knew that if I got a whole houseful of blinds and shades delivered to me at the same time I would be completely overwhelmed and the pile of boxes would just sit there taunting me and making me feel bad about myself. Remember Monster House? That’s what a giant pile of boxes like that would do for me! So I order one or two rooms at once, install them in an hour or so, then order the next ones.
This is Lisa-logic, which never makes any sense at all to my husband. But as long as it doesn’t cost him more money and I’m doing the work myself he rolls with it. Other Lisa-logic is how I have to make the bed the second I get out of it every day because if I don’t then it won’t get made at all. And I always park on the same row at the grocery store, even if there’s a better spot in another row. I know me….I won’t find my car any other way. That’s the beauty of 32 years of marriage though. He doesn’t even question it anymore. He just steps aside and lets me be me.
The big news here is the new baby…born just a week and half ago. Her name is Violet and she is the most perfect little creature. The fact that she lives 6 hours away from me is probably going to kill me. I have already started talking about moving closer to my daughter’s family because why live so far away from this sweet thing? I hope the rest of my family wants to move with me, otherwise I will sure miss them. 😉
But moving won’t happen for a while, unless God does some kind of miracle. We aren’t city people and really don’t want to live in Dallas, so we would have to figure that out. Many miracles need to happen for us to move there, but Violet is already one miracle and God can do anything.
Right now I’m glad to enjoy the house we have. After being without a home for 4 1/2 months of this year I am really appreciating things like chairs to sit in and dishes to eat off of. All of our possessions were packed up by a cleaning/moving company (what didn’t burn in the fire, of course) and returned after the house was finished. Then we had the enormous task of going through everything we own and putting it all away. As we unpacked we purged. That might seem like it would be hard to get rid of so much at once, but it wasn’t at all. We were so happy to have any of it back that we didn’t even care about the loss of some stuff. With that attitude we flew through the boxes and now we really are down to only what we actually use. No more junk here. If it wasn’t serving us we got rid of it.
That is one of the many blessing that came out of the fire. I’d been needing to do a major purge for years. As each of the older kids left home we rearranged, but didn’t really eliminate the things we weren’t using anymore. Plus the older kids would leave things here and eventually we had drawers and closets full of things that belonged to people who don’t live here! And we had furniture that really didn’t work for what we needed and too many knickknacks. And books. So. Many. Books. We got rid of at least half the books.
It feels so good y’all to have it all cleaned out. Just in time to have a wedding right here at the house this fall! I tell you, the adventure never stops. I wonder what’s next!