Mary Queen of the ipods

yes that is my ipods name, I had not thought about it for awhile until today when I connected it to my computer.

Today was full of assorted odd jobs one of which was painting a bookshelf (we already have 3 in our tiny place but still needed another, luckly we had friends who gave us one). And the sad thing is even with four bookshelves I still have 3 boxes of books that I am going to try to sell and give away. Tom had a bunch of books at work that now are at home. Too bookworms in a house is not a good thing.

We are officially out of our old place (yay). Just waiting to get most of our deposit back and getting settled in our new place. Its looking pretty good, still lots of stuff needing to find a home or be given away. It has definitly been tough for me and reminded me that I am way to materialistic. I knew I was but God has been working on me. I just always can forsee a need and for many things I know I will need it again later so why not keep it and not have to buy one later. But its tough when you have no where to put it.

I'm still struggling over the fact that we no longer have an extra bed for guest. And I had been spoiled with a huge kitchen at my old place, so still adjusting to needing a stepstool every time I cook. But the thing is this is temporary and we are so blessed that we get to live here. When I think about how we will be working with students soon I get so excited. And while our house is small we have a large parking area so we have a picnic table, it will be great for BBQs. I need to focus on the good and remember that all of this is God's and if He decides to take it all away who am I to get upset? ITS HIS! I'm lucky to have what I do and look forward to getting to share it college students and friends.