....God throws a curve ball!  Well, of course it's not a curve ball to Him - He knew all along what was going on!  Sometimes we humans can be so sure of ourselves, can't we?  Pretty cocky for a being who can't see the Big Picture.

So, we had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas with family.  All three of my boys went to the Christmas Eve service for the first time and did quite well.  Got to see some old friends there and it was fun to catch up.  The sleepover at my BIL's was also a blast.  The kids all had fun bunking in together in one tiny room.  The adults stayed up and played Balderdash until after midnight - a VERY funny game when you're tired!!  Oh we were in tears with laughter.  Christmas morning was festive and the kids of course had a great time.  Before lunch we went for a hike in the woods and it was so nice.  Couldn't have done that with snow on the ground! 

So now, two days later, we're just regrouping a bit and trying to take it easy. 

So what does all that have to do with my title??  Nothing!  But this does:  yesterday my hubby and oldest son took a trip to my in-laws to pick up some tools and stop at WalMart on the way back for an exchange and a bit of after-Christmas sale shopping.  They returned home late afternoon, and within minutes of hubby walking through the door, he gets a phone call from a friend who tells him he just had a lengthy phone call - from the camp guy in Colorado!!!!!!!!!  They chat a short time, and within minutes of getting off the phone with him, it rings again and this time it's the camp guy himself!  So hubby has his own phone chat with this guy, for nearly a half-hour.  Turns out we're still in the running! 

The last 24 hours have really turned my little world around, I'll tell ya.  A week ago I was all ready to head up to the camp here in NH (no actual offer from them yet, but it was looking pretty solid).  Now suddenly this puts a spin on things because truth be told, the place in CO is larger, is more of what we're looking for, and has housing on-site (the NH camp still doesn't, that I'm aware of, and that's a big factor for me). 

Back into my prayer closet!  Not that I had really come out of it, but suddenly the future isn't quite so clear and I want to be sure we're in the Lord's will.  I have been praying and will continue to pray that He will open the door that He wants us to walk through, and close all others.  I'm really excited about having the two prospects again!

On a sadder note, I'm bummed about not having a garden again for the 2nd year in a row.  I skipped it this past year due to wanting to let the yard go back to being yard for the sale next year, and now I will be in "limbo" during planning and planting time so it'll have to wait another year I guess.  All the talk around here of getting seed catalogs gets a body going!  Actually I don't usually get mine until sometime in Februrary, since we don't start anything indoors until around March, and NEVER put anything out until the very end of April at the earliest, and even then it's the hardiest of the early-early plants!  Such is gardening in New England.