Moving on Up

God has been very good to us.

We have been in the same two bedroom duplex for the past five years.

It has served us well.

When we moved in there, Michael was three and Alex was a tiny baby. It was perfect.

These boys are getting big!!

We are literally on top of each other.

So Good Friday will be a good Friday indeed.

The boys are so excited, they will have their own rooms.

I will have my own pink bathroom!!

This whole moving experience is new to the boys, they are too young to remember living anywhere else.

We used to move every year...

Across town and across country.

Michael was born in Colorado and Alex was born in Tennessee.

We moved a lot. It was like a sport and I was a pro...it has been a while and I am out of shape.

But like riding a bicycle, it comes back to you and if I can do RPM, I can move to from Rock Prairie to Graham Road...

The boys think it is fun. The first box that I packed was stuff from their closet, I made the mistake of not taping it up. I filled the box full and when I turned back around, they were pulling everything out saying "ooh cool" like they had never seen it before.

If you want to make something fun, put it in a cardboard box.

This has been a growing experience for me too. I started getting ready early...to be organized, because that is what I do.

I started cleaning out things, getting rid of stuff, saying "I'm not moving that". Then I began packing knick knacks, things that I do not use, that just look pretty. It is amazing how much "stuff" we have that we do not need.

God has been really putting into perspective "needs" and "wants". These things are great, but I do not need them and I am living perfectly fine without them.

If I have my Bible, my children, my coffee and chair, I am set.

I am very thankful that I can not out give God, that I don't even try anymore. I am thankful that He has showed me that everything...my children, my house and possessions; they all belong to Him and when I respect that and treat them as Gods, he honors that. I am thankful that He continues to bless me and show His faithfulness.

"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me" But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty. "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty. Malachi 3:8-12