Thankful

Just a quick simple post today to express my gratitude.

I love this little sign.

I made it in about 10 minutes at a church activity.

But it is one of my favorite fall/Thanksgiving decorations.

I love its simplicity. 

This banner was $3. 

I love what it does to this room.

Funny how life is full of little simple things that bring joy to 

the day to day. We just have to see them.

 Life is not perfect. We are all fighting battles.

Some obvious. Others not.

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Our New Home

Where to start...

We moved.

Again.

From this:

To this:

Why??? 

You ask.

You might enjoy this post that recapped our last move.

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In that post I said the struggles of a major cross-country move were not over.

In many ways they were just beginning.

As it turned out, they were more than just struggles.

As time went on, it became clear that the differences between the life we had left behind in Seattle and the life we were trying to carve out in South Carolina were just too different. 

Some things that were very important to us, were not available to us in our new surroundings.

After lots of consideration...and prayer...to understand God's will for us...

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