hnelson's Journal

I really truly don't have time this morning to blog....but I NEED TO in order to put my thoughts in order and get out of my own head a little.  It's been a long time since I blogged since Baby Jackson makes finding the time difficult.  Honestly though, I'd gladly give up just about anything to spend time with my tiny little dictator so how can I complain!  :-)  The past month has been busy with the usual baby stuff and life but the past two weeks really exploded.  Here is the breakdown of how it all fell together:

* three weeks ago, hubby went to Tennessee on business and baby and I were alone for the first time for four days.  We did GREAT!

* While there, hubby was offered a permanent full time job - we expected this but didn't expect that they would pay for a full relo package.

* We took some time to consider our options, counter the offer, dot the I's cross the T's etc. but finally accepted the offer this past Tuesday.

* on Friday morning, we found out that his company was discontinuing all contract positions.  As such, had we not accepted the offer, we would be staring down the barrel of NOT having any work!  GOD HAS GREAT PLANS AND TIMING EH!!!

* on Friday afternoon (yes, same day), I rec'd a UPS package from the publisher on my book deal that was completely unexpected!

* Also on Friday afternon (yep, still same day) we found out that hubby's contract start date was set for October 1st!

* On late Sunday night we had someone email us out of the blue that wants to lease our current home from us.

THE BLESSINGS FROM GOD ARE TOTALLY OVERWHELMING ME AT THIS POINT!  Things are going so great and so fast and so smoothly and oddly  - JUST AS I PRAYED FOR!  I've been praying for weeks over the job possibility for hubby and my specific prayer was:

  "God, if this move is what you want, make it happen seamlessly and quickly and make all the pieces fall into place for us so that we can have good peace about the choice for our family"

and apparently God said - OKIE DOKIE!  This has happened so fast and so far every facet has just fallen into place in a way that we could have NEVER imagined or accomplished on our own and the book deal was just icing on the cake. - honestly, I could have lived my life long and happy to just have Jackson and been grateful to God every day for it...this is all just....

WOW!

I now have today and tomorrow to get my family ready to travel (laundry/packing/etc) AND get us pre-qual'd for financing in TN and coordinate house hunting with the realtor and and an dan dnd - and somewhere in there find time to read my book contract.

oh yeah - and see ALL OUR IDAHO FRIENDS AS MUCH AS WE CAN BEFORE WE MOVE!  Things are nuts and getting nuttier around here but SURELY God has a plan for all this as well and will put me through it!

God really is good....ALL THE TIME.....EVEN WHEN YOU THINK YOU DON'T NEED HIM!