Hi/Lo Thursday

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This is part of the Rigg's family blog. It's also a chance to read others highs and lows for today or the week.

Well...our high moment for this week is when we moved into our new house and all the help that was offered to us. By the time they left Sun. we had under 10 boxes left to unpack. Also...the new church that my husband is now the pastor of us gave us a "pounding" with food! Just wonderful!! Our low moment was just a moment ago when I had to write the checks for our house that we are trying to sell. I am trying to be patient and wait on God's timing, but could use some prayers on this please.

Happy Valentine's Day!

We are gearing up for a wonderful Valentine's Day!!! We are moving!!! Yay!!! Everything is pretty much packed, the bed is taken down....I am so ready to finally be able to move. We are excited about what the Lord is doing in our lives.

Today, amidst packing and other things, Jeff, Annabelle, Andrew and I all made Valentine cookies and decorated them with strawberry icing. We also painted Christmas ornaments (my mom gave them to me at Christmas) for Grammy and Pap. They love helping me and Jeff cook, clean, whatever we are doing they want in on it too. I am so blessed to have my family. Annabelle is such a sweet girl. She loves dress up dresses and having tea parties. She also loves to play on her Dora computer that Santa gave her at Christmas. Andrew is such a little man. He loves to climb all over Jeff no matter where we are. He loves to play with tools. He helped Daddy take down our bed today. Jeff helped him use some of his tools to take care of the job. It was cute. I wish that I would have taken a picture.

It's been hard on me lately to spend quality time with the kids. I have either been packing or cleaning or just trying to get the house ready here lately. It seems I am always cleaning just in case someone wants to come and view our house. God has really been convicting me that cleaning and other things are not as important as spending time with my children and playing with them. I am missing out on them growing because of cleaning. How ridiculous is that. My prayer and hope is that starting this weekend, I will cut out a huge block in my schedule just to play with my kids. I want to love them like God loves me. I want to show them that Mommy loves them and likes to play with them and be with them. I want to be a better Mommy.

On a side note, a church member just dropped off my very first sewing machine. I am hoping to make the kids some curtains for their new room and playroom. I am so excited!!!

I hope that each one of you have a wonderful Valentine's day. I hope that it is a day filled with love from family and friends!

excited

I am so stinkin excited about the move even though I am procrastinating a little bit on packing. However, it will be done by next Friday night. The plan right now is to start loading at 8 am so that we can be down in Ramer around 12 or 1 pm. I hope that I am calculating everything right :) We have had such wonderful support from the Dickson CP church family! I love you all so much!! Thank you so much for all of your prayers and words of encouragement. I am so excited that God is leading us down this path. I know that our house will also sell in His timing. I just have to be patient and trust Him.

I have already found a preschool that I would like to enroll Annabelle and Andrew in. It's a parents day out at a Baptist Church down in Selmer. They are so excited to be going back to school. I hope that they like it as much as they liked the First United Methodist Preschool here in Dickson. I hope that when I see the school I will be just as impressed as I was over the phone.

Jeff has dropped a class. He has 4 classes on Tuesday for a total of 8 hours. He dropped his 1 Thursday class just so that he would have extra time to do stuff around the house and for the church. We are looking forward to seeing what our new adventure is going to be like.

Exciting News!!!

We are moving Feb. 14, 2009. Happy Valentine's Day!!! We went down to Ramer this weekend so that Jeff could preach again and this time he met with the elders of the Mt. Vernon church. They told him that they had unyoked with the New Bethel church because the New Bethel church wanted to stay with the interim at this time and Mt. Vernon wanted a full time pastor (Jeff). The pay is not enough to support our family totally, so I will have to get a part time job somewhere. However, Jeff is only going to school Tuesdays and Thursdays so hopefully we can find a place where the kids can go for a little bit but one of us can still be with them most hours of the day. Please pray for me getting the right job! I haven't worked a full time job in a lot of years outside the home. I also need a job that is flexible in case the kids are sick and other stuff. We are looking so forward to this move. We really feel that this is were God is calling us right now. The church family at Mt. Vernon are so welcoming and caring.

They also showed us the manse were we would be staying. It's huge (compared to our house). We live in a 1000 sq ft house and this house is at least 1 and 1/2 times to 2 times our house size. They said "I hope that you have a lot of furniture". I thought, not really I live in a small house :) Oh, well, we are going to have to buy a few things (lots of curtains, microwave, and some other small stuff). I would like to sew the curtains for the kids room and play room.

God has really been with us. I was pretty discouraged on Friday night/Saturday morning just because of the churches not really telling us anything and also from no one coming to see our house. God has really taught me patience thru this and also waiting on His timing as well as trusting Him completely. It's something that I wouldn't trade. Knowing that God is in complete control is so comforting and amazing.

I believe that God always answers prayers, even if it is not what you want. He answers in three ways....yes, no, wait for awhile. I am excited that He is leading us down this path. Please pray that we will do God's will and that this church would glorify God's name.

no news yet!

We have returned from another trip to Mt. Vernon/New Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian. It was another great trip! We stayed at a church member's house this time, she was amazing. We had a comfortable bed and then she made us an awesome breakfast this morning. Jeff met with the elders from both churches today. We still have no news, however I feel that we are closer to having it. The elders now need to meet with a moderator and then vote to see if they want us at their church. God has taught us much patience in this and selling our house. I am looking forward to what God has planned for us. I am learning that my timing is not God's timing. I am trusting Him for his perfect timing. He knows best. I am hopeful that we may know something this time next week. If not, then we will continue to wait. We really like the congregations, especially Mt. Vernon has been so welcoming. We didn't go to New Bethel this morning. The Mt. Vernon church has a Sunday School class for Annabelle and Andrew. Jeff and I feel that it is important for the kids to still get to go to Sunday school. So if we get this position, the kids and I would only go to Mt. Vernon. We are going to lower the price of our home in hopes that it will cause more people to look and one person to buy. We would really like the house to be sold and hand over the keys by the end of February, but again God's timing is perfect so we are waiting on him. This has been an exciting experience so far and we are looking forward to the rest. Jeff received his class schedule and he will be going Tuesdays from 8-8:30 and Thursday from 8-4:30. So please pray for safety for him and that he stays awake. He is going to have a hairy day especially on Tuesdays. That's what's going on right now. I hope that each of you have a wonderful day!!

Happy Anniversary!

Tomorrow is my 5th year anniversary of being married to my wonderful husband! God has blessed me immensely with bringing Jeff into my life. Happy Anniversary Honey!! I love you!!

Still nothing yet...

We went to Ramer this weekend and Jeff was able to preach again. The elders at New Bethel couldn't meet with Jeff today so they have asked us to come again next week so Jeff can preach again. They want us back so I am going to take that as a good sign. Please continue to pray for the elders at Mt. Vernon/New Bethel that they would heed to God's will. Please also pray for us regarding this decision as well. Well, we had an open house today and no one showed up. :( Anyway, we are still praying that God will either sale the house or continue to give us the money (since neither Jeff or I are working currently) to keep up the mortgage and other expenses.