~together~
Thanksgiving vacation came and just like that, 9 days later it went. It was good to have a break from school for both kids and adults, but now it is time to return and get back to the business of learning. I have missed the 11 little ones that call me "teacher" each day, and I can't wait to hear of all the excitement they have had while we were away from one another.
Mike and I were very busy over the course of it all. We are inching closer each to day to the time when we put our house upon the market for sale. The bathroom is now finished with only a few tiny details left to be put into place. Mike worked so very hard to get things taken care of in that room, and I am most grateful for all of the sweat equity he has poured into it. He has an eye for the way things should go together and once it is all into place, it looks wonderful.
Yesterday we set about the task of pulling carpet up in our bedroom in order to expose the hardwood floors underneath. Both of us had hoped the floor would look as wonderful as the one in the spare bedroom did, yet sadly it did not. There is work to be done to remove some of the spots where the old pad was. Mike and I were on our hands and knees for the better part of two hours yesterday. Thankfully we decided that it was more than our 60-year old bodies could handle, and we asked someone else to take a look at it who is much younger and stronger than the two of us are. We are not that foolish and we know when to call in help. By the time it is finished, that floor will look awesome too.
Our list of things to do still remains lengthy, but I am positive that we will be able to cross off the very last item before January 1st. Every day something is found that can be taken to storage which makes us realize just how much stuff we do indeed have. A bedroom is yet to be painted, the mud room needs a little TLC, and some deep cleaning of all the house remains to be finished. Between the two of us, we will finish it up in time. One thing Mike and I are good at is this.
We know how to work together.
Over the break we headed back to Kansas to look around at some houses there as well as homes in the Ponca City area. Mike and I still do not know for sure where we will land, but in my heart I know that God has figured out already where it shall be. I'd have to admit that sometimes I am very impatient, wishing to know now the school and the community that needs me. It can be a scary thing to relinquish a teaching position you have without knowing where it is that you will go in the future. It's an anxious feeling to work hard to make your home a place where someone might well choose to live in the future, not knowing whether it will sell in the first week it is on the market or sit there for several months. Through it all I have found that it's best to just have faith, knowing the plan will soon be shown to us both.
We have loved our home here and I'm proud of all that we did to improve it during the 3 years we have lived in it. Mike's attitude is to always leave a place better than when you found it, and that certainly shall be the case here. So wherever you will find Mike and I in the months ahead, of one thing you can be certain.
You will find us together.
Mike and I were very busy over the course of it all. We are inching closer each to day to the time when we put our house upon the market for sale. The bathroom is now finished with only a few tiny details left to be put into place. Mike worked so very hard to get things taken care of in that room, and I am most grateful for all of the sweat equity he has poured into it. He has an eye for the way things should go together and once it is all into place, it looks wonderful.
Yesterday we set about the task of pulling carpet up in our bedroom in order to expose the hardwood floors underneath. Both of us had hoped the floor would look as wonderful as the one in the spare bedroom did, yet sadly it did not. There is work to be done to remove some of the spots where the old pad was. Mike and I were on our hands and knees for the better part of two hours yesterday. Thankfully we decided that it was more than our 60-year old bodies could handle, and we asked someone else to take a look at it who is much younger and stronger than the two of us are. We are not that foolish and we know when to call in help. By the time it is finished, that floor will look awesome too.
Our list of things to do still remains lengthy, but I am positive that we will be able to cross off the very last item before January 1st. Every day something is found that can be taken to storage which makes us realize just how much stuff we do indeed have. A bedroom is yet to be painted, the mud room needs a little TLC, and some deep cleaning of all the house remains to be finished. Between the two of us, we will finish it up in time. One thing Mike and I are good at is this.
We know how to work together.
Over the break we headed back to Kansas to look around at some houses there as well as homes in the Ponca City area. Mike and I still do not know for sure where we will land, but in my heart I know that God has figured out already where it shall be. I'd have to admit that sometimes I am very impatient, wishing to know now the school and the community that needs me. It can be a scary thing to relinquish a teaching position you have without knowing where it is that you will go in the future. It's an anxious feeling to work hard to make your home a place where someone might well choose to live in the future, not knowing whether it will sell in the first week it is on the market or sit there for several months. Through it all I have found that it's best to just have faith, knowing the plan will soon be shown to us both.
We have loved our home here and I'm proud of all that we did to improve it during the 3 years we have lived in it. Mike's attitude is to always leave a place better than when you found it, and that certainly shall be the case here. So wherever you will find Mike and I in the months ahead, of one thing you can be certain.
You will find us together.
I honestly don't know very many men who would do this for his wife and her kids at school. This man is an extremely good sport with a heart of gold. There is nothing we cannot do as long as we stick together.
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