My hubby is at work, my brother is on his way here, the bathroom is clean, and it’s almost Sabbath. All is right in the world. 🙂
I received a nice surprise this morning! Hubby sent me a text message at noon, saying that he was done with work and heading home for the day. Yay! He asked if I could make lunch for him. No problem.
30 seconds later, he walks in the front door. hehe. Silly guy… so he’s been home all afternoon, on call if he’s needed for anything. So far, no calls.
My productivity went out the window as soon as he walked in the door. I didn’t have any big plans this afternoon anyways, though I keep telling myself I need to clean off my desk. Someday. Eventually.
Farmer’s market
I am so excited. If hubby’s working from home on Friday, I’m going to borrow the car and visit this farmer’s market. It’s only open on Friday mornings so I’ll have to visit some week when hubby’s off work or working from home. There is another farmer’s market we visited last year that’s open on Sundays, but it’s 10 miles from our house.
Buying locally will provide better quality fruit and veggies as well as contribute toward my goal of green living. Hopefully I can find some good organic produce that’s cheaper than the grocery store prices.
After 6 months
My husband is at work. At WORK!
God is good.
Sabbath
It’s Sabbath. 🙂 A day of rest to spend with God. I love this day of the week.
Easy does it
Today has been a much more laid back day than the ones we’ve been having lately. The only thing noteworthy we’ve done is signed a new lease for our apartment. We’re locked in for another year. Even though I didn’t want to stay in Phoenix, I feel this is God’s plan for us right now. And with that, I have peace.
Next on our agenda (probably tomorrow) – close out our old checking account and transfer the money into the new checking account. Find hubby some new work shoes as he’ll be meeting new clients on Monday and his current dress shoes are ratty looking. Make sure Cingular actually closed our account. I’m still getting calls on my old phone…
Apparently I accidentally disabled commenting. I’m finding pieces of Disqus in my HTML for Blogger, which is messing with the ability to comment on my posts. Maybe now everything is worked out with commenting.
We’ve been living month to month in this apartment complex since our lease expired in March. Now that hubby has a local job lined up, we decided that it was time to sign a new lease. We talked to the leasing consultant this morning and she offered us a lease renewal with monthly rent of $699. Right now we’re paying $795 a month. Savings! I’m really excited about it as that means we’ll have extra money to throw at the credit cards each month.
Changes – lots of them
What a crazy day. I’m kind of reeling from the suddenness of it all.
Hubby received a job offer! He starts work on Monday. This is with the contract employer that he’s been working with for the last couple months. We’re very excited about it.
We also signed a new cell phone contract, picked out new phones, and I changed my phone number. Hubby’s employer will be paying a cell phone subsidy so we picked out a plan with a HUGE amount of minutes as it will be hubby’s business and personal line. We’ve never had this many minutes before.
AND we signed up for a savings account with a new bank. A couple months ago, we opened a new checking account with this bank to handle hubby’s unemployment. The state picked the bank for us. We’ve had a really good experience with them so we decided to switch all our finances to them. We added me to the checking account today and opened up a savings account for our soon to grow emergency fund.
Whew. After all this, we decided to skip grocery shopping and just came home. I’m a bit overwhelmed with all the sudden changes. Happy, but overwhelmed! I probably shouldn’t have changed our banking and my cell phone number in the same day because now I have a ton of work to do to update phone numbers, banking information, bill pay, etc.
Kitchen woes
We somehow really managed to clog our kitchen sink. On Friday, the sink drainage slowed drastically. Rinsing dishes caused both sides of the sink to fill up with several inches of water. Jeff tried to fix it and we ended up with a wet floor for our troubles.
Hubby notified the office on Sunday but told them it wasn’t an emergency. The sink would drain, albeit very slowly. One of the maintenance guys showed up this afternoon and started working on it. An hour later, there are now two guys trying to figure out what’s wrong with the sink and/or disposal.
Oops.
World Builder
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
This video is amazing. What incredible love this man has for his wife, that he would build something like this! Every time I watch this short video, I cry. I cry because I am overwhelmed at the ability to love, to pay attention to the small details, to provide enjoyment for a loved one.
This video reminds me of God’s love. If a man can love his wife enough to build her something that’s only going to last minutes, how much more love did God have for us to build a world to last for an eternity? I wonder if God created a calla lily and saw a bride walking down the aisle to her husband holding a bouquet of flowers. Maybe He spoke a tree into existence and pictured a father building a tree house with his son. Perhaps, as he created cats and dogs, He smiled and thought of a mother laughing as her child plays with the family pet. God loved ME so much that He fashioned man’s body with His own hands and breathed into man His own breath. It’s wonderful. It’s love.