Making progress

We are definitely making progress here at the Barrett homestead. Half of the garage is filled with boxes of our stuff. Who knew we had SO MUCH STUFF?!! We sent a truckload of stuff to a yard sale today and we have other plans for another pickup truckload. :) Kids seem to be handling everything well. We have packed up about half of their stuff, so there is definitely still stuff to play with!

Huge thanks to mom and dad for watching kids for us during the past couple of days! We made tons of progress during their retreat to Stewart World. (Watch for my posting on their trip to Fossil Rim!).

We are set to close on our Austin house next Friday and will move stuff the following week. Not much action on our house here; the market is definitely not working in our favor! But we are confident that everything will work out - God has wonderful plans for us and will take care of it all (in His time). We sold our Richardson home in 8 days, so our current situation seems like an eternity! Quick lesson learned: don't use the self cleaning cycle on your oven when you KNOW there are people coming to look at the house! We definitely had an interesting smell going on today. :) DUH.

We appreciate your prayers as we continue through this crazy time. This whole turn of events has really taken us by surprise. God has blessed us with so much here in Granbury in just a short time; we were definitely not LOOKING to leave after only 2 years in our country home. We will always have a strong connection with all of our wonderful friends here! I'm still blown away when all that God has done in the short time we have been here.

However, I seem to have more peace about what lies ahead. When God calls you to something new, even things that are not easy, we are crazy to not follow Him! Experiencing swim lessons with Daniel have helped illustrate that for me. I knew that Daniel had it in him to swim. He had to work really hard to overcome his fears and trust that his teacher would guide him through each lesson. In the end, he could swim and (more importantly) had conquered something huge, and gained confidence to do more in the future. I wouldn't trade that experience for him for anything! Of course I wanted to pull him out of the water when he was frustrated or upset. But his teacher knew what he could do, and patiently worked with him through it. How much more does God care for us?! He knows what He can do through us - we just have to trust and be patient for His guidance and grace!!

So, watch out, Austin - we are on a mission!! :)