GRATEFUL, BLESSED, impatient,emotional

So I suppose I owe an update to my faithful readers.  Oh wait, I talk to the two of you on the phone multiple times a week and you already know everything that happens in my life!  Ahhh, well.  I'll update anyway...per chance someone else stops by this week.  ha-ha

First let me just say, God is way amazing.  I mean it goes without saying...but I'll say it anyway.  After my last blog post, we were completely enveloped with prayer.  Friends, & friends of friends, & friends of friends of friends were posting a link to my blog on their Facebook pages.  Countless numbers of people all over the world were (are) praying for my little boy and my family.  The day after I posted the blog I called my friend and was telling her how engulfed I felt with prayer and love.  I told her, "there must be at least 100 people praying for Isaac...and I just wrote the blog last night!"  Her reply was, "Jeanette, Keith led the entire congregation in prayer for Isaac today..."  Keith is the pastor at Christ Community Church (our church in GA).  I'm honestly not sure how many people regularly attend CCC...but my guess would be about 800.  That is lot's of prayer.  Prayer that I was and still am GRATEFUL for!

For all of you prayer warriors, an update on Isaac:
He's not in excruciating pain like he was when we were traveling.  Which is great!  He is having tiny BMs multiple times every day...so many in fact that we're having to use diaper rash cream on him.  He however, is still trying with all of his might to withhold BMs and his tummy is really, really bloated.  On top of all that, he's a little sick right now.  Mostly just a cough, but is running a slight fever at times too.  He is very prone to upper respiratory infections and pneumonia, so we're praying that he is healed of this illness quickly.  Please keep praying.  Our family is still in a state of limbo from this move (as I'll explain in a moment), so therapies/doctors for Isaac are still on hold for the next few weeks, until we can get settled in.

We are in Colorado now.  We got into the state on April 23 and were able to spend Easter (though we were seriously exhausted) with Nathan's family.  And some family of family...& friends of family....& pets of family...and pets of friends of family...It was quite the welcome!

We don't have a house yet, but we have been offered a beautiful home on-post and will sign for it on June 1.  We've scheduled our household goods to be delivered on June 2 (my Mom is also flying in on the 2nd); and our bedroom furniture to be delivered on June 3.  YAY!  A little background on our being offered this house...we were first offered another house in another neighborhood, which we accepted, but the next day the housing office called back and said they'd mad a mistake and offered us a house that wasn't actually available. So, we were back to no house.  When she called and told me this, God laid it on my heart that it was not a big deal because that house simply was not the house he had for us.  The lady at the housing office promised us we would have the NEXT AVAILABLE HOUSE and told us she was leaving our meeting scheduled for May 3 and they would contact us as soon as they had another offer.  May 3 crept closer and closer and we never heard back from them.  So Nathan and I began calling, leaving voice mails, and sending e-mails...they didn't seem to really even remember us our situation.  But finally someone called us back and informed us that though we in fact would not be able to offer us a home by May 3 they would like to offer us a home in the new neighborhood on June 1.  Let me back-track and say that when we were initially offered a home in Navajo Village I asked how long the wait would be if we wanted to try to get a home in Iroquois Village.  I was told it would be a 1 year+ wait.  But we were in fact a few days later offered a home in Iroquois Village!

 My patience is being tested a little while waiting on the house, but I am beyond grateful and excited.  God has really, really blessed us.  It is precisely 1.6 miles from our driveway to Nathan's work parking lot.  It is across the street from a little neighborhood playground and a bridge that goes to the PX/Commissary.  It is walking distance to a big Post playground and dog park.  It's even the neighborhood and floor plan that I would have chosen if I could have hand picked a home.  It's 10 minutes from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (which we already have season passes to) and the view in our neighborhood isn't too shabby.  We are so, so BLESSED.  I'm also so, so very IMPATIENT!  Nathan started in-processing today, so he is at Fort Carson, while the kids and I are still in Evergreen.  Don't get me wrong, I am so GRATEFUL (notice a trend in this blog?) that we have a place to stay, and we are really enjoying spending time with Nathan's family.  BUT...we moved out of our old house in early April and we aren't moving into our new house until June.  And Nathan is already at Carson, so I feel a wee bit like he is getting to start our new life without us.  Also...not being in our new neighborhood and not being able to find a new church and make new friends is seriously prolonging my homesickness.  Seriously.  I. AM. A. WRECK.  Sunday at church everyone kept asking me, "Aren't you just SOOOOO HAPPY to be in Colorado?"  They were a bit surprised when I burst into tears and could barely mutter..."Yes, kind of, except I miss my friends, and I miss my church, and I'm just really homesick...but I'm homesick for a place that isn't my home..."  Emotionally unstable.  Apparently that's me right now...

I'm excited though.  Excited about Colorado Springs (mostly).  It is really big, I'm a bit overwhelmed by that. Keep in mind the town I was raised in had a population of 200 in it's most thriving year...so yea.  But I'm really looking forward to living in a "city"!  I'm also really looking forward to finding a church...to making new friends...to having old friends visit (YOU MUST VISIT!!)...and to finding my place to minister and serve.  I know that God has all of this completely planned out.  I know that right now he is telling me to be still and wait.  I'm glad that he knows me inside and out and can completely understand my petty frustration with being still and waiting.  Lord, I don't like it, and I don't want to.  But I will, I will be still and I will wait!  For you know the plans you have for me and they are good!

Nathan drove by our neighborhood today and noticed there was a moving truck parked in front of our house to be!  That means the current residents are moving out (which almost makes it feel sort of like my house instead of theirs).

Oh, also.  Nathan bought me a new camera.  I'm a total amateur, but I'm planning to do some workshops, take some classes, and do some learning.  For now it's a fun hobby...maybe eventually, years and years from now I'll be experienced enough that it can be something more.  So yea, that's all I've got for now.  Please excuse my scattered, jumbled, ramblings.

To those of you actually reading this, I'll probably talk to you on the phone tomorrow.