I think we are finally starting to get back to normal after a head-over-heels month.  It occured to me today that we really haven't worked on the house since the week before DH went to Colorado, and that was the first weekend of Feb.!  We had the wind knocked out of our sails - or as I put it, had "the Colorado rug yanked right out from under my feet" - and it took some time to come back around.  We are realizing how much we would have loved that opportunity.  Can't lament it but this is the second time in our lives that we feel we've lost a great chance.  Dang selling this house.  I think we both secretly hope that they won't find anyone suitable in the time frame they want and that we'll get a call back saying "Ok, we'll wait another month until you can get here!" 

Anyway, back in Reality...   Living at the camp we go to was always a big factor for us, but I found a fantastic piece of property out near the NH camp that would be our dream and finally a "real" homestead!  It's a double-wide mobile (really nice on the inside!) on 10 acres of land!!  Oh, what we could do with 10 acres.  I could finally have a full garden, not to mention HORSES!  I kiss that chance good-bye if we move onto the NH camp property.  That bums me out no end.  There are sacrifices to be made in this venture, I realize, but none the less, horses are my passion and I've just been waiting with a longing heart for my chance to own one again.  My youngest son really loves them, too, and I dream about how fun it would be to have a horse and a pony and go for rides with him.

Just have to keep reading that reminder I have on the wall right in front of my computer desk:  "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."  - Jeremiah 29:11-13