Thursday, December 30, 2010

This camper was rockin last night

The wind was fierce last night, so much so that you could sit in the living room and feel the RV rocking. Not enough to scare you but still very windy just the same. Its still rockin this morning. Wonder what the forecast is?

Today's list is pretty simple. I have some things to pick up from Wal Mart and I need to return the water filter to Lumber Mart that is the wrong size. I am glad I keep all receipts now. At least until I get them logged onto my book.

I am hoping my e reader comes today. I did look and find out that it is suppose to be delivered by USPS so that is good. Easy to get.

Mollie and Hannah spent the night at friends in Hardesty last night and tonight they are all coming here. It will be a fun time. I think someone will have to sleep on the floor. We can get 5 girls in the RV easy peasey. I imagine they will be eating sub sandwiches for supper or lunch. We have plenty of lunch meat.

It will be more fun when the weather is nice to have friends over because they can hang out outside more.

This is Jeff's long weekend so we will be building the risers to go under the sectional. I am excited about that. We will also be taking the shower door out from behind one part of the sectional. Jeff put it back there when we first took it down in case we would want to replace it but we are sure we will not be doing that so we can get rid of it now. Jeff also figured out an easy and light weight way to make the risers so it will be easy to accomplish.

I have found that Jeff and the girls and I can pretty much accomplish anything we set out to do by thinking about it and making plans to accomplish our goal. I tend to think about each detail while I am suppose to be sleeping. That makes it easy for us to get things done because I already have figured out each step of the process. I am so happy that Jeff can listen to what I say and process it and then make it happen. It would be awful to be married to a man who wouldn't listen to me. He finds it hard to figure out how each thing we are making or doing should be done, so he listens to me on how to do it and then he can visualize it and even make improvements on the design. Works great most of the time. I do know that its not good to do projects together when we are not happy with each other. He tends to say couples shouldn't work together and I say they should but not when they are mad at each other.

I remember when we were still living in the big house pictured on the header and were making the transition to the RV and I wondered what I would do when there were no projects left to do. So far its been 3 months and that hasn't happened yet so I think I will always find things to do and improve upon here to keep myself busy. I know one thing for sure I will be doing this spring is totally reorganizing the trailer/shed. It has been such a blessing to us and I am so glad we were able to find a large enclosed trailer and build shelves in it. I go out there several times a day. If our stuff was stored somewhere else I would probably not use it like I do now.

I think God is so awesome. For a long time we had thought that if we did end up moving that we would have to make two trips. One to haul the RV and then one to haul the shed. Suddenly the other day when Jeff and I were talking about it I got the idea that we could just rent a u haul truck, fill it up to lighten the load from the RV and trailer, use our pick up to haul the RV and the u haul to haul the shed. I told Jeff about it and it was such a funny moment. Like why did it take so long to think of it? I know it was the Holy Spirit that gave me the idea because it came out of nowhere as an answer to something we had prayed about.

Oftentimes in our lives the Holy Spirit helps us and we never acknowledge it. I know Jeff asks God for help at work if he has a programming problem and God always comes through. This has been a great testament to Jeff that God does indeed care about his job. Jeff used to think that was a part of his life that God put him in charge of or that he really didn't have time to help with. I kept telling Jeff that God cared even about little things at work. Well Jeff finally began to let God help him at work and he was amazed. One day he came home and said, you know the Holy Spirit even knows about programming. I laughed, of course he does. Now Jeff asks for help from God at work all the time. Yesterday he even said he had something coming up that he was going to have to do extra praying about. Yep God is awesome.

2 comments:

Captain Hook and Lady Crochet said...

It's great to hear you all are doing so well Debbie. I would love to see pics of the camper when you get the time. How is the girl's schooling coming along?
I agree with you about downsizing. This day and age we all have too much "stuff". It gets in the way with our relationship with God. You hear him MUCH clearer when you start to declutter your life. :0) Mine, is still a work in progress...but I can say I know we have at least half the stuff we used to...and the debt is nearly gone now!
Lori

Yolanda said...

I like your attitude!