Plumbing

We got plumbing today!

This pic was taken about 8 pm.





Currently a big mud pile really. I'm glad the rain today didn't bring everything to screeching halt. This pic looks like a river made by the rain but this was actually freshly dug at about 7 am (before most of the heavy rain). This pic was taken about 8 am. Yes, I am being obsessive about watching the progress. It is a good thing we currently live only 3 miles from our new house!

Our House Ground Breaking

The ground has been broken! They framed out the form for the foundation! Now things are moving along!












This is the view from the future sidewalk, facing toward the house.

Here is the view from the backyard toward the house.









From where I am standing to Jesse is the width of our backyard!












Size of back yard...kinda... it is hard to see in the photo. The yard is not too big and not to small.









I am standing in our bedroom looking toward the family room.












Jesse is checking out the form for the chimney.

Why?

I don't understand how God works or why He does what He does. We wonder why things happen, things that seem horrible to us. I was just caught a TV show about Hawkings. What an amazing brain, one that can really wrap his mind around things like a black hole. Too bad it is trapped in a body that is nearly helpless. That was my first thought. Then the show went on to talk about how he had a bad spell and was in the hospital for 3 months with almost nothing to do but think. So think he did. He thought about black holes and he came up with a whole new theory, one that proved his old theory about black holes, that he defended for 30 years, wrong!
What would have happened if this man had had a perfectly working body? Surely he would have still become a genius but would he have still discovered what he has today, if he had had a normal busy life at home and at work with all the distractions of life? Maybe, maybe not.

Lesson learned: Slow down and reflect on things that are important to you, be that black holes or God. Perhaps that is why Jesse had cancer; very early in our marriage we were forced to put our priorities straight and realize how fragile and short life is. We learned how blessed we are with family and friends.

Now if I could just figure our why God made Chiggers!

Summer

Summer is strange for me. It messes with my internal clock, so that I turn into a night owl. I feel incredibly busy nowadays. I am used to going to work and staying in one place all day then going home. Now I wake up get ready at a leisurely pace, run here, there and yonder, go home to do laundry, clean the kitchen, mow the grass, take the dog to the vet, make as many apts as I can to get them out of the way before school starts. How on earth do I function when I have to work on top of all this?

Speaking of dog...I took Emma to the vet today. She has an ulcer on her cornea. Poor baby. I have drops for her eye and an antibiotic.

Tomorrow we go and make our decisions for counter tops, tile, brick color and more. What fun.

Blogs are supposed to be profound ponderings. I am not real good at thinking profound thoughts. I wish I was. Even more, I wish I was a published writer. I guess I will have to eventually submit some of my writing to a publisher in order to get that done?! I told my students that I would suubmit something before this summer was out. I guess I better get cracking then. Gathering up thick skin in preparation for rejection...

Tornado?

12 hours from now I will hopefully know if I am pregnant or not.

Last night during the storm I remembered again what the phrase "two made one" means. That was the theme for our wedding. Last night I huddled in a church nursery room with a lot of people. Apparently there were 75mph straight line winds close enough to us that some of us saw the power lines being ripped down. next a vortex was headed straight from us. I was not too worried, having grown up in Texas I am used to these life and death experiences. : ) That and we were in a house of God.

Then I heard that all this mess was headed to Wylie, where Jesse was. Now I was filled with fear. I could stand losing my own life but to lose my husband's life was a completely unbearable thought. I stayed on the phone through most of it, all the while begging Jesse to take cover in the bathroom and STAY there. "No, don't go look at the storm from the front porch," I kept saying. In the end our neighbors lost some large tree branches and that was the worst of it.

Four and a half years ago Jesse and I vowed to love each other forever. At the time I didn't think our love could be more than it was at the time but it is. Our love has survived bad weather, cancer, career changes, and time; now I hope that it will have to survive pregnancy and a baby.
I love you Jesse!

Humble Abode So Far...

Well here it is...our humble abode... so far. I think it is a little more humble than we want right now. I guess we will have to see if they can build something on it.
Today I walked through a house a few doors down with the same floor plan as ours. The cabinets are in and it looks fabulous! I am so excited!
We should be getting a call from Angie at the studio to pick out colors and such soon. Can't wait!

Today has been horribly normal feeling day other than barely detectable abdominal cramping. Very likely could be imagination. I have been taking it easy just in case though. I'm lifting nothing heavier than a laundry basket or a gallon of milk. Keep praying that we are indeed pregnant!

Waiting

Waiting, waiting. Friday seems it will never come. Some days I feel different, some days I feel horribly normal. I have never been good at patience. My grandmother says in my head, "Good things come to those who wait." She always has wise words to say in my head, her and my mother both. They are usually also the words I don't want to hear and yet they persist. All I can do is frown in displeasure at the thought.

So now I will wait and frown until Friday when I am allowed to take the home pregnancy test.

Thankfully though I have nieces and nephews here to keep me from frowning too much for now. Morgan and I will be quilting this afternoon. That always makes me smile...both Morgan and quilting.