A Little Perspective

Yesterday morning, I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. I've been beyond stressed out with those whole moving process. We've had several things go wrong at our house (mostly courtesy of mother nature), getting the building process going has been SLOW and then to top it all off, we found out we can't get the rent house we thought we were moving into. My mission for the week is to find somewhere to live! I spent all of Monday online and making calls to find out about places. After not gaining much ground, I decided my best bet was to just head to Norman and look around. (and thanks to an awesome friend/neighbor, I got to do so kid free!) Thank the good Lord that in order for me to get to Norman, I have to drive down I-35 right through Moore. Honest to goodness truth is that right as I got into Moore where I could see the tornado destruction, "This is the Stuff" by Francesca Battistelli came on the radio. WOW- talk about a wake up a call!!! My "stuff" that has me so frustrated is so LITTLE in comparison to what these people have gone through. Yes, we're probably going to have to live in an apartment about half the size of our house and cram some stuff into storage, but you know what?? Who cares?! At least we still have all of our belongings and I'm pretty sure that we can survive 6 months anywhere. Thanks to some good advice from my wise brother, we're just going to look at it like a little "break" from reality. Six months with no yard to mow, nothing to fix if it breaks and probably a pool and workout room. It will practically be like vacation ;)

"This is the stuff that drives me crazy
This is the stuff that's getting to me lately
In the middle of my little mess
I forget how big I'm blessed
This is the stuff that gets under my skin
But I gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing
It might not be what I would choose
But this is the stuff You use"

 

 

We have it narrowed down to a couple of different apartment complexes and are still waiting to hear about a house (most houses want a 1 yr lease and we only need 6 months), but we feel certain that we'll find the right place.

 

Some have wondered why we want Norman. Our biggest reason is that we want to be close to Blanchard so that we can go ahead and get involved in the community. Wyatt is going to miss out on going to Pre-K at a school, but I am hoping to get him into the pre-school at FBC Blanchard so that he can get to know some kids. We also want to be close so we can stay up on the progress of the house.