...free falling

...it has been written

that patience is a virtue

well baby...

I must be soooo virtuous

ever so much so!!!

...I can explain:

 As you may or may not know,

We are moving.

yep!

I'm talkin`

smack dab in the middle of

a nooooo turning back

 kinda move!!

as in:

a gazillion boxes everywhere kinda move

(it's like a maze in here! I hope there's a wheel of italian parmesan!!)

~ miles

and miles

and miles

 of  a bubble wrap kinda move

(although I do look a little more svelte, if I do say so myself ~

my version of one of those plastic spa wraps ~ HA!)

~ and wrapping and wrapping

and yes, more wrapping with newspaper kinda move

(I feel like a piece of silly putty

  with all these funnies transferred to my skin!!!)

there is simply NOOOOOO turning back

nuh uhhh!!!

(and I pray you sweet readers NEVER feel like I do at this exact moment

 like throwing it all into storage

and parking the gypsy caravan on the beach somewhere

just for a little while

you know

for a year or two

LOL!!!!!)

~Now~

here's the free falling part

(please bear with me

it's a trip!!)

The people moving out of our "new rental house"

have not closed on the house their purchasing

and don't know when they will be!!

it was supposed to be today

 because

Our lease starts June 1st

and we must be out of our current home

by June 1st

because it is rented to another family and

they will take possession on June 5th

soooooooo

it's the ripple effect

literally!!

So I've stepped off ~

nooo

not the cliff side mountain,

just in my anquist of this situation!!

I know that ALL things work together for the good

and that my reACTing is so much more important than the end result...

so

here I am again, Lord

...free falling in faith

because I know

a 100% kind of know

that You have our back

and it's all gonna work out as it should...

Oh

and did I also mention

this all needs to happen before June 15th!!

because Jim is the grand marshall of ceremonies for the Summit Norwalk Race

so we will be in Ohio for two weeks

(I really am excited!!)

so

if you need me,

I'll just be over here

on this mountain of boxes

 patiently waiting for it to all come together...

ps: if you still haven't entered the fan~tabulous giveaway

scroll down and enter:)

 

...a little cottage guest room and the story of the false wall!

Hello dear readers

Here is a look at my mom's temporary room!!

Jim built a false wall for me...

and why would I need a false wall

 you ask?

(for the sake of this post, you asked!)

Well, without going into the "t-m-i" zone on the meter reader

(too much info)

let me just say that

we have been trying to move back home with our families in Ohio

for a while now

(almost 2 years!)

we've been here for 7 years,

and although it doesn't seem like a lot of time

look at your child

and zoom reeaallly fast in your mind

 back to 7 years ago!

yah!

alot of life are in those 7 little years! 

moving on ~

~  because the housing market in Nevada in like one of the worst,

early last year,  we made the decision to sell our lovely, 3200sq. foot home

(complete with a guest bed and bath room!)

(important detail alert there, I promise!)

thinking that we would rent a home instead

kinda like a no strings attached thinking

... 

and that we'd be ready to bounce

 at a moments notice

... 

are you still with me?

I know

but I have a point

honest I do!

any way

in a nut shell ~

we did sell,

less than half of what we bought it for

heart broke

swallowed hard

 ~ enough said!

moving on

through the kilning process of life!!

(curious though, am I at least bronze yet?! HA!!)

fast forward to now ~

we are temporarily in a rental home of 1800sq. foot!!

YEP!

you read that right

aahhhhh....

do you see my dilema NOW??!!

Honestly,

we thought we"d only be here for 6 months

okay 8 months tops!

this was only supposed to be T-E-M-P-O-R-A-R-Y situation!

as in gone, baby, GONE!

and ideally,

living in a lovely farmhouse somewhere in the northeast

feeding a few chickens

(what?! I'm just thinking of Belinda here!)

with roses and peonies and lavender growing everywhere....

ahhh

earth to Rosemary

focus!

needless to say

God OBVIOUSLY has other plans!

(and strangely, it is well with my soul!) 

 ~

so here we are

in our very COZY rental home,

in need of a guest room 

soooo

what's a girl to do? 

well

 look outside of the box of course

(which gets me in trouble most of the time!!)

and ask hubby of mine

to construct this false wall!!!

(by the way ~ awesome job honey!!

meatloaf and mashed potato's for you tonight

I know, but it's one of his favorites!!:)

now, where were we...

oh right,

 the false wall ~

 meaning,

not really a wall,

as in, it only appears to be a wall

'cause you

 can't attach it to anything

it's a rental, kinda wall!

wwwhhhheeeeeeww!

If you're still with me

hugs! :)

but I'm loving this false wall that

magically deliciously 

 turned our dining room

into

 a happy little cottage room for my dearest mom!!

(can't wait mom!! only 8 more days)

I made a ruffle slipcover shade light,

complete with sweet little wings ~

perfect for dreaming

and this lovely china cupboard armoire

that's been cleared out

for her pretty little self's stuff!!

 

I'd like to share that

through this,

I have learned

 that we don't really own anything in this life

other than how and what we choose to fill our souls up with

and that anything outside of that is a gift

things and stuff come and go.

To just do the best that we can 

to keep moving forward

and to graciously continue seeking up

every single day!

and know that this waiting time in our life

well,

simply that

this too shall pass!

~

thanks for reading

your support means alot!

 this now concludes the reason for

the false wall!!

If you haven't already put your name in for my giveback,

you may still do so,

I will announce the winner tomorrow afternoon

and announce

another little giveaway!!

spoiler alert,

can we say french lapin?!

until then ~