wow!

We are actually under contract with our house which is a HUGE blessing-- I think the Lord has been watching out for us all along, but it has been a tough couple of years.

Anyway, we are set to close tomorrow!!  We are taking a pretty big hit because of all the damage that happened to the house this past year, but we are out of time and money to fix it up, and we figure that pretty much everybody lost money on their houses so it's our turn now too.  We will still have a pretty good chunk of change from when we were rich and put a lot of money on that house, so we'll be able to put in a fence and yard in our new house and have a really good financial cushion.  Hopefully we'll be able to save most of it and live within our means on the salary of my husband's new job which is also a huge blessing!  He's still working for the LDS church, but no longer as an employee-  he is vendor status and gets to work from home.  It has been so nice.  He also got a bit of a raise which helps too.  We are very thankful to finally have a break and to be close to the end of a very difficult period in our lives.  Yay!!

We are so dang busy though.  We had the Pinewood Derby tonight in which the boys did just fine-- not dead last like last year. We have a fun family Halloween party Sat. and I have to make a warm furry costume for a certain boy.  We have a pumkin land field trip scheduled tomorrow-- the girls are supposed to start b-ball on Sat.  I really want them to play, but it just may be pushing it too far because they have quite a few choir concerts coming up.  We had a doctor appt. this  week too and vision therapy for #5,  And lots of good schooling goin on-- I'm just not sure when to get to my deep cleaning and when to get my shopping done-- there are so many good things to do-- it's hard to prioritize and balance everything just right.  These are really good problems to have and I'm really glad that these are the problems I'm dealing with right now.  Life is good!