A lot got done last Saturday and this Monday. On Saturday we had Free Grace Church from Lewiston Maine volunteer. They completed many tasks. Thank-you for bleaching the basement, sheetrocking the ceiling, pulling nails from boards, doing some electrical work, for the good food and many other various jobs that you completed. On Monday we had some volunteers from our church sheetrock. What a difference!
Our kitchen
our stairwell to the 2nd floor
and the stairwell to the dreaded basement
Thanks everyone for your hard work!
Curtis and my dad have been hard at work this week. Working during the day and taping and mudding by night. They both worked out in the bitter cold today and then worked more on the house tonight. Crazy how many hours Curtis has been putting in lately. He's so tired.
Anaya and Kiana are starting to go stir crazy as well as their momma. I sometimes feel like I've lost a year. We may be getting ready for another move before we actually move in to the house. Hard to think about that right now. Transition is so hard and this has taken so long. I hope God has good things in store for us this next year that don't entail moving every other thing.
I finally got my Suburban repaired. Wow, that was a job and a half. I guess maybe I'm glad that it didn't get done for free because the mechanics started on it last night and didn't get it done until 4 today. It was a check that really hurt to write but the kids were happy to be able to move again. We spend so much time in the car and the Taurus was a bit crampy especially since the back door doesn't open.
Sometimes I feel like I'm doing this alone. I miss my "Vineyard" family. My friends all have their own stuff they are going through. It would be really nice for my friends to lay hands on me and pray and let me cry and be me but they are not here and I need to get used to the new normal. I hope soon that we can get into a groove of ministry and be ministered too in a way that God can really use to benefit the downtown but for now I know that I need to be at peace with where I am as difficult as it is.
I am very grumpy these days. I feel like it has been so long since being a part of a church family that knows who I am and the comfortableness that comes with being "real".
I must say I am getting an education in being poor. I once took a spiritual gifts test and the gift of poverty was on there. I thought what a joke - and look here I am. It's all good though, and I know God stuff is going to happen. Please pray for us as we struggle right now with work, tiredness, family, attitudes, etc.. I can't be easy for us or the Tripps with whom we are staying.
Curtis and my dad have been hard at work this week. Working during the day and taping and mudding by night. They both worked out in the bitter cold today and then worked more on the house tonight. Crazy how many hours Curtis has been putting in lately. He's so tired.
Anaya and Kiana are starting to go stir crazy as well as their momma. I sometimes feel like I've lost a year. We may be getting ready for another move before we actually move in to the house. Hard to think about that right now. Transition is so hard and this has taken so long. I hope God has good things in store for us this next year that don't entail moving every other thing.
I finally got my Suburban repaired. Wow, that was a job and a half. I guess maybe I'm glad that it didn't get done for free because the mechanics started on it last night and didn't get it done until 4 today. It was a check that really hurt to write but the kids were happy to be able to move again. We spend so much time in the car and the Taurus was a bit crampy especially since the back door doesn't open.
Sometimes I feel like I'm doing this alone. I miss my "Vineyard" family. My friends all have their own stuff they are going through. It would be really nice for my friends to lay hands on me and pray and let me cry and be me but they are not here and I need to get used to the new normal. I hope soon that we can get into a groove of ministry and be ministered too in a way that God can really use to benefit the downtown but for now I know that I need to be at peace with where I am as difficult as it is.
I am very grumpy these days. I feel like it has been so long since being a part of a church family that knows who I am and the comfortableness that comes with being "real".
I must say I am getting an education in being poor. I once took a spiritual gifts test and the gift of poverty was on there. I thought what a joke - and look here I am. It's all good though, and I know God stuff is going to happen. Please pray for us as we struggle right now with work, tiredness, family, attitudes, etc.. I can't be easy for us or the Tripps with whom we are staying.
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