So aren't you moving????

The past five + weeks have dragged on like no other time in my life!  I could write a book about it but I'll just break it down to the highlights.

• Landlord emails while we are on vacation in Texas and says he has orders (civilian working for military) to move back to Ohio and we need to move out in 30 days. 
• Load family up next day and rush back to Ohio to start looking for a new house - decide to buy so this won't happen again.  This will be our 5th house in 5 years!
• Immediately start looking at new houses. 
• Fall in LOVE with dream house (Kate doesn't know but her BFF would have been our next door neighbor).
• Put in offer but house is For Sale By Owner so we make the offer contingent on appraisal.
• Appraisal takes an ETERNITY to come in but comes in under our original offer.
• Now offer full appraised value.
• Wait.
• Buyer refuses to accept appraised value and won't sell.
• Sad, confused...very, very confused.

BUT...did I mention that while bullet number 6 is happening our landlord calls to say, "Nevermind, now they are sending us to Maryland.  You can stay in the house."

Crazy?  Yes, very crazy.
I turned this over to the Lord in the beginning and said, "This is happening for a reason."  I thought the reason was that we were getting our dream house....eh, that's not it.
The current lesson from this exhausting trial is...

• to be happy in the life that we were already happy in before this got dangled in front of us. 
• to have faith in the Lord and His timing.
• to recognize the Lord's blessings in all area's of our life and not the material.
• and I'm sure there are lots more.

I am thankful that I don't have to pack things up...but still processing and a little bit sad about the death of a dream I had not yet dared to dream.

so what do we have to complain about???.....

Kids with Grandpa and Grandma Sellers in Texas