The UnKnown!

Well I know what you are ALL thinking ( well maybe not) but yes its been FOREVER since I have blogged! I feel very guilty but I was always taught if you have nothing nice to say that don't say anything at all. Lately it seems like I had nothing really nice or upbeat to say and I didn't want to get on here and complain to all of you! :-) A good friend helped remind me that you all care and want to know what is going on with us so I will share.

I know a lot of you know we have moved and don't know why and I have had a lot of people say well I didn't even know you were looking to move. A lot of mystery in the whole thing and how fast it happened. The last year has been pretty hard financially for our family and Mikes job is so up and down and VERY slow. We have tried every thing we could think of to make things better and save our house. A lot of people said well why didn't I just go out and get a full time job. Well that is easier said then done with before and after school care expenses and full-time daycare cost for Brooklynn. It would cost me $350 a week just to have someone else watch my kids so I would need to find a job that pays me more then that a week and trust me I have been looking but I have been so shocked what people are willing to pay these days! I don't know how people do it? So until God provides me with the right job I am working a Callihan's at night! Well back to the house thing, so we came to the conclusion the best thing for our family was to try and sell the house and  hopefully get some money to put away in savings. We tried calling the mortgage company so many times to have them help and do something but time after time we got the run around! Its crazy how from day to day its a different answer. One day we are to poor for them to help the next day we make to much!! WHAT? UGH!! Such a roller coaster ride and not the fun kind! :-) God put on my heart to sell the house and rent for a while.  When Mike and I talked about starting the process to sell the house and rent for awhile its amazing how God stepped in! Let me share with you some of the amazing things that God did and how I know we are doing the right thing

So after Mike and I made the decision the very next day I was on the hunt for rental properties, I prayed and said God open doors where you want them open and close them if this is not something we should be doing. So the house had to have 3 bedrooms, at least 2 baths and a basement that we could make Devynn's room and be less then our mortgage and  we had to keep the kids in the same schools (trust me when I say that did NOT leave much!!) After searching ALL day one day I was convinced it was NOT going to happen! I happen to come across add that for some reason I did not see before? It was there but some how I missed it! I called it and got a hold of the lady who was renting this townhome. She informed the someone had already came and looked at it and she has their credit app but she happened to not go into work that day and she had not had a chance to do anything with it yet! (?) So after talking to her for a hour and really hitting if off she asked me to come tomorrow and look at it and she wanted to meet with me. So when I informed Mike he had said well whats the point because it sounds like its already taken but we thought well it couldn't hurt. Well Aislynn was in a soccer toury this weekend and we had just enough time in between soccer games to come look at it. So we came and feel in like ( I say like because I was not that happy about going smaller)! It meet all the above musts! So when we were leaving the landlord said she would rather rent to our family then the other person who came to look at it! Well we wanted to rent it but there was the small problem of she wanted 1st months rent and a deposit in the amount of  the rent before we could move in! So we both new that we could not afford that. She told us she would give us till Monday to talk about it before she told the other person either way. So I prayed " OK God you need to provide the money if this is what we are supposed to do? Well come Monday we got this check in the mail for the exact amount of the deposit! Weird?? I looked at Mike and said so what are we gonna do? He said we are gonna move and pay the money for the rental. So we started the process! Its amazing how God will open the doors when he wants you to do something! He is AMAZING! So from the time we talked about it to the time we moved it was 7 days! So yes it happened fast but I totally feel like God had his hand in the whole thing and we are doing the right thing. So we are in the process of selling the house and I have given it over to God and know if he wants it to sell he provide the right buyer! I am at peace about the whole thing.

So to answer all your questions WE ARE GREAT! We have each other, our heath and we believe God is in control of everything!!! Thanks so much for your prayers!

We are adjusting to a much smaller space but everyone is happy and even the kids have been such troopers. Devynn has amazed me through this process. She never complained and she went with the flow and I was so proud of her! She was loosing the most out of all the kids. Going from her own great space to something that was not so great!! But she has made the best of it and I could not be a prouder mom!! What a great woman she is turning out to be! Our whole family is closer and we are happier!

I can not wait to see what God has in store for us this next year and I am sure its going to be great!!

Love to all!

Starting the journey!

Well some of you and been telling me that I needed to start a blog for a while now and I have always been to scared to start! But after loosing 60 pounds and feeling like I am starting on a new journey in life I thought what a perfect time! I can't promise there won't be mis-spellings so if that drives you crazy you might want to stop reading now! I little about me, is I am a mom of 4 wonderful kids who I love to pieces but can drive me crazy everyday! I have been married to my wonderful husband for 9 years and I am sure I drive him crazy every day! Anyways I have lost 60 pounds since Jan. and am still going. I have been working on myself inside and out and let me tell you the outside is so much easier to fix then the inside. I am christian and I love the Lord and want to say I lean on him for everything but that would be a lie but I inspire to get to that place! I have a very strong passion for teens and teen moms and can't wait to see how the Lord uses me in those areas very soon. Right now I have a daughter in high school and one at home who I am potty training so I have it all!! Anyways I am currently working our most mornings with a group of wonderful ladies who come to my home and we have our own personal gym going! I love it and its cheap! They are all Christian woman and we are keeping each other accountable. I am trying to tweak my diet to a life style change and not just a diet and that is a work in progress. I am posting a before photo and one where I am at right now. Its hard to believe the changes and how far I have come. Well I will keep writing if you keep reading. Love to all!

Sherri