Approved!

It looks like things are clear for take off! We got the call back from the bank saying we were approved for our construction loan. The dream may actually become a reality!
I’m so excited! Seriously, there is almost no way to describe what my heart is feeling. Joy, blessedness, and hope….all of it mixed with a healthly dose of caution.
I have waited years and years for this. Correction...WE have waited.

When the kids were babies & toddlers we started hoping and planning. The plan was to sell the house, move into Scott’s uncle’s rental house –a 1900’s farm house- and live there for a year or two tops while we used the sale profits to purchase land and build our dream home. So with that plan, in October 2004 we sold the house we had lived in for 10 years almost to the day. By December we moved into the house we now live in. We had $15,000 in the bank and high hopes. Two months later, on February 10, 2005 an ordinary Thursday, we found out Alivia’s diagnosis. Our lives changed, plans were put on hold and we quickly found new priorities. Our dream was put on a back shelf. Needless to say by the end of 2005 our bank account was empty.

We were able to purchase our land 3 years ago, and have been saving and planning and saving and planning and praying and praying and praying and then praying some more ever since. 2009 seems to be our year! Things have literally fallen into place. God has made a path for us, and what a path it is! We are learning about tax breaks, and all kinds of things that will help us out. God has kept us for all these years, and now he is helping us build a house that is more than Scott and I imagined or hoped for.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again – God truly does hold ALL of us in the palm of His hand.

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On a totally different note:

Yesterday I read a book called The Glass Castle. It is a memoir of a MSNBC reporter named Jeannette Walls. If you like to read, go get this book. It was so interesting. It’s not big, it’s one of those I call a 1 nighter. Meaning you can read it in one night or so. And I did. I read a few pages Saturday night, then finished it Sunday. It was very interesting. I said oh my goodness! No way! More than a few times out loud.