thoughts and meanderings

Josh commented tonite about how peaceful the past few days have been. The cloudy days, not knowing if it's cool or warm, and sometimes both within minutes. The birds and their little songs that let me know it's 6 am, or earlier. thank you, dear birds, for making sure I don't overindulge on sleep.

The word is slowly getting out, about the move. I've been getting a lot of funny looks when I say "TULSA". The kind of looks that say, I think I need a map. Or do yo like to ride horses? Or, did you know about all the TORNADOS?

Honestly, I don't know what to think, either. It's a city, so I imagine it will feel in some ways very similar to here. The accents will be different. The landscape, different. But people are people, you know, and I've met people at every stage, city, season, whatever- that I could not imagine NOT knowing.

I have done this 3 times, now. Three times I will have shown up at a place, and known 2 or 3 people, and been scared to death. All three times, it's always the same. People show up, and your life changes.

And if, by some strange providence, someone knows someone in TULSA- feel free to send them my way...

Apparently, I am older than I thought

Have yall heard about this? A ring tone, teenagers can hear, but not OLD people. Yeah, well some friends were telling me about the thing last nite so this morning I headed on over to NPR, armed and ready to cover my ears from the high pitched sound- and nothing. My dog's ears were wiggling like crazy, and Josh was like TURN THAT OFF, but me, I was surfing the internet for a miracle ear.

Please, somebody as "young" as me, tell me they can not hear this thing. I will feel better.

breathe and rest

That's what I have been telling myself today.

"Most" of the major projects are done. The house is clean and smells ALOT like lavender. I love that stuff.

I have definitely felt a tinge of the nuttiness coming on. You know, just that tense feeling of how in the world will this all come together.  It will, I know.

So, I am taking most of today to relish in a breezy, cloudy day. Everything is off. the tv. the music, even. 

It all gets crazy again, tomorrow, but today, I will take it slow.

we're moving.

well, there it is. these past few weeks have been kind of intense (to put it lightly), but Josh was offered a great job at an excellent school. in Tulsa. yep, that's in Oklahoma.

In some ways this was an easy decision, and in other ways it has been one of the hardest things we have done. Birmingham hasn't exactly been a joy ride, but we've experienced plenty of God's mercy and lesson upon lesson. We would never take it back.

The hardest part, for sure, will be saying goodbye to some dear, dear friends. Not to mention, leaving my sister and brother in law and my niece, as well as my family, just a short drive away. It has been such a sweet time in our family this last year, which everyone being so near. It breaks my heart to think I will be so far away.

BUT, it's not that FAR. A 10 hour drive, and well, anywhere you can get to in a day isn't so bad, right?

We'll be here through mid-summer, I assume. I literally can not feel my legs from all the cleaning and getting our house ready for the market. I love this house so much. so sad.

I thought I would have more to say, but I still feel kind of speechless.


So, there are some pictures below since you may know someone who would like to live here someday....