Answered Prayer

Once again, God has it all under control. We're signing a contract at the end of this week to rent our house in G'ville to a couple for 2 years. I am so relieved that we did not have to sell it. Even if we do end up staying here in P'ville at least I will have peace about it. This couple is so nice and they are willing to do work to the house while they live there. They're going to resurface the driveway (which is huge) and take care of the yard and clean up all the overgrowth around the creek. I'm so excited. Part of me is a little sad because 2 years sounds like a long time, but I know that in the whole scheme of things it really isn't. I also know how lucky we are to be able to rent it. So, we're happy all the way around. Brian's happy, I'm happy and the girls are happy. We've made a few major decisions this week. We decided that we are going to keep Emmaline at the little private school she's at for one more year. Reason being that she has anxiety issues and she would go to the 2nd grade next year for one year, and then go to another school for 3rd-5th grades. That would be 4 different schools for her in 4 years if you count the school she went to last year. So- we're just gonna keep her at the school she's at now for one more year. Annelise is going into 3rd grade, so she'll be in that school for a few years before she has to change. But, she has decided that if she doesn't get into the gifted program at the public school, she's going to stay with Emmaline for one more year at the little private school. They will test her for the gifted program at the end of this month, so we'll see. The public school will just use her standardized test results to decide. They don't test for that until the end of second grade, so Emmaline would have another year until she is up for that anyway. Brian and I feel really good about this decision, so that was another load off of us. I just don't see Emmaline adjusting too well to a class of almost 30 kids when her biggest class so far in her life has had 12 kids in it. And it will be the first year that the girls will be at separate schools to boot. Throw in all of the problems that public schools have in a normal day and Emmaline would be in therapy again in no time! So, things are good here in the Few household. I just enrolled for the third course in my master's degree program last night. I put it off until I couldn't find an excuse anymore.... 24 papers in 10 weeks. Someone shoot me now. Seriously, it's gonna be rough, but I'll be certified to do grief counseling after I finish this course, so I am sooo excited about that. Overall~ Life is good. God is even better. I'm going to enjoy this peaceful time while it lasts. :0)