Update

WOW- So much has happened since I last posted!
My last 2 posts were not upbeat and were not happy posts-my parents and I went up to East TN for my Aunt Debbie's funeral and it was beautiful!  The visitation lasted over 4 hours and there were well over a thousand people who came through.  It was hard knowing that she had battled so much and fought so hard only to be taken in a freak accident, but it was also amazing to see the legacy she left behind in her family, her friends, her coworkers, and her students!! While in East TN we got some more bad news about the house that we are renting from my uncle that resulted in a frantic and very rushed hunt to buy a house!  We got back on Wednesday-I worked Thursday and Friday while looking online for houses, we got a realtor and had house tours set up for Saturday!  We saw several houses that would be great if it weren't for this or that, and then I found a very cute cottage style house that I wanted to see.  We e-mailed our realtor and he added it to the list!  We loved it and then wanted to see it again on Sunday along with a few new houses...still nothing except for the cottage style house!  Knowing that we were in a potentially extreme time crunch we talked and prayed about it and put an offer in on the house!  Yes-after 2 days of looking, we put an offer in on a house!!!!  I had to leave Monday afternoon right after work for Nashville for a SPED conference for the middle school and would be gone until Thursday evening...Freaking out and waiting to hear back I went to work Monday-we did find out there were multiple offers on the house.  Drew and my mom went and looked at a few more houses while I was gone but nothing was as great-so we put in a counter off--and then the waiting game began-it was so hard to be away from home and waiting to hear something, but finally on Tuesday night while I was at dinner with some wonderful and great friends, Drew called to tel me they accepted our offer!!!  We were one step closer to owning a home!!!  Yesterday we had the inspection and other than a few cosmetic things the house looked great-I am so excited!!  Drew was going to talk to the relator again today but hopefully everything will still be on track for closing date on April 12th (the day after Drew's b-day!!))!

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers about this house and as soon as I know more I will try and post!! 

 

"Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands." 2 Corinthians 5:1 

This verse is all I can think about today...We are not guaranteed tomorrow here on earth-but as a Child and follower of God we ARE guaranteed a forever life in Heaven!

 

Complete Shock

As I sit here and type this, I am in complete shock. Yesterday afternoon I got home and wasn't feeling well (side effects of coming off of a medicine) and laid in my chair to take a nap before bible study. About 30 minutes Drew woke me up with some devastating news....My "aunt" Debbie had been killed in a freak accident in Knoxville. My "Aunt" Debbie is actually my second cousin (I think) but growing up she was always and will always be my Aunt Debbie. My mom has told me since I was little that if anything happened to her and dad and my grandparents couldn't take care of me that I Debbie and her husband would take care of me. At Christmas time we went to Crossville and helped my grandmother put on our 2nd annual Christmas dinner with that side of the family and I sat and talked with Aunt Debbie for a long time about school-she used to be a sped teacher and then became the principal at a middle school up in East TN. We talked about dealing with and working with middle school students. We talked about behavior problems and how she dealt with them-it sounded like she was an amazing principal who the kids loved and respected. Another thing about my Aunt Debbie is that she was fighting breast cancer-and that's why she was in Knoxville yesterday-her husband had taken her to a treatment and they went out for food after... God works in mysterious ways-he took Aunt Debbie so suddenly, I hope and pray that she did not suffer. I hope and pray-and believe-that she is now dancing with the angels in heaven-her mom and dad especially! I pray for her two children-Elliot and Courtney, her husband, her two brothers and their families, and my grandmother (her aunt who she was very close with). There are so many things that happen in this world that we don't understand, that we don't agree with, that we don't like-but it's important to know and believe that Jesus conquers all death-he controls all death-and because she is a believer, we will see her again in heaven-cancer free!

My Aunt Debbie