Good Start

So far, this week is off to a pretty good start. Last night, Brian and I took ALL of our Christmas decorations to the office and put them in the office attic. Since we will hopefully be moving before next Christmas, we went ahead and put them there and we will get them down next Christmas and take them to the new house. That way it is less stuff to move when the time comes. (And trust me, moving just the Christmas decorations is no small task!) We also took ALL the recycle stuff to the deposit center last night. The recycleables had started taking over our garage and we could barely walk out there. We had to take my SUV and Brian's truck (both of which were slap full) to get all of the decorations and recycle stuff out. Big mark off the to do list. Today I got a few things done while the girls were at school and now I am supposed to be working. : ) I plan to go back to the gym tonight to resume my pain and torture. We took my parents to see the lot we are looking at yesterday. (They actually asked to go see it!) My mom was being so calm about it and talking about how much good Brian and I could do at a church that was trying to grow and how we could help with children's ministry at some of the smaller churches. I was in shock because I know that she and my dad are both sad that we won't be able to continue going to their church. Then she got kind of quiet and a few minutes later she started ranting about how we were moving too far away and how she would never see us and my sister would never see us and yadda yadda. I knew it had to be too good to be true. I think she held it in as long as she could. I explained that we were actually going to be 7 miles closer to her, but it fell on deaf ears. When we got to the lot, she just looked around and said "Well, it is beautiful, but it is too far and it just won't do." We were all just laughing at her. I am really happy that she at least tried to be okay with it for a while. It made me feel a lot better because for some reason, even though I am 33, my parents approval is still very important to me. So the fact that they are ok with us staying out towards this side of town took a huge burden off of me. Now the only thing we have to do is call the developer to see what he and the architect decided about the house. We are going to wait a couple of days and give them some time to talk about it before we call. I am really excited, but if they say no, I will know it was not meant to be and we will keep looking! We also found a church out there that we are interested in visiting. My cousin goes there and we have gotten the "inside scoop" from him. It sounds like our kind of place, so I think we will check it out this Sunday. Plus, it is only a couple miles from the lot we are looking at. It just seems like there is a tremendous amount of potential for some of our answers out there right now and I am really enjoying that feeling. Oh, well- I guess I need to go actually work and see if there are any moms to call back......