- PRAYER PLEASE! -

well, here's what we've got - a home that we love, but is waaaay to small for us (family of 7 - 6 full time, 1 from time to time & an in-home office) - as you'll see, brit's room has all the music/computer stuff in it & she's no room at all for 'her stuff' - then you'll notice that the bear cubs room's somewhat bigger, but remember, there's 3 cubs living in there - that full sized bed sleeps kiara & karleigh & then under that bed's a toddler mattress that we pull out every night for miss ruby - it's not that we like making her sleep on the floor, but with her being deaf, she's loud (did i mention she's LOUD??) & gets up several times through the night just to yell for me on the monitor, for me to run in there (yes, this fat mama runs so as to not have entire house woke up to the screeching sounds of our little pterodactyl), stumbling all the way, for her to ask me if it's time to wake up yet! (keep in mind this routine of hers/ours starts every morning around 2:30am & goes on almost hourly until it's time to in fact...WAKE UP! - by putting her down on the mattress, it helps to keep her from waking up the other 2 during our 'night-time fun' (doesn't always work, but sometimes it does) - you'll also notice a kitchen table, that's mainly used now as spike's desk - the kitchen has become his 'home office' & we've to move fax machines, copiers, printers, computers, etc. when it's time to eat dinner - for those that 'know me', you know my house's usually full of things on the walls, on the tables, etc., but as you can see, we're in the 'moving out' stage & things are quickly movin' outta here! - we've got a storage shed here in town that we're storing all our boxed up things - watch out, because whatever's not moving will get packed (note: do not worry at all about karleigh getting boxed up as this child's not stopped movin' since her mama anna marie gave birth to her!) - moral of this post's to get some more prayer warriors praying for this house to sell soon! - we've got a floor plan picked out, plans have been made & a contract's signed with our builder, as we see this' something god's brought to us as an investment for the future of our family - we've done what we've been called to do, we've taken care of things that needed tending to, we've helped others in things they were called to do & now we're praying it's our time of harvest & we can get this thing underway - we've been given 60 days to sell our home before the signed contract's void - they'll stretch it to 90 days if we're having showings & people seem interested - so far it's been about 3-4 weeks & we've only had 2 showings - the family today liked our house, but liked some they'd already seen... better - the couple last week said they liked ours best out of 6 they went in, but chose one of the other ones as ours was on a corner lot & they did NOT want a corner lot (remind me again why a person who's decided they did NOT want a corner lot would even look at a house on a...corner lot???) - after the showing this morning & the 'review', i've been really down all day - i'm not a real patient person (alright, who's gonna be the first to make a remark on this one?), but it's hard enough emotionally to sell a home, get it ready to sell, keep everything in it's place & at a moments notice be able to scoop everyone up & leave the house, but to do this with 6 people living here (3 of which are 5 & under) is extremely HARD! - geez, i know i'm rambling, but again, all those that will, please pray for this place to sell to just the right family - thank you & from reading a post on a blog of a friend of mine, i'll coin the term, "now i'll go readjust my 'happy cap'! - nite!

- Lori - [keep smilin']