Moving

Well, a lot of you got our Christmas card and said "What? You're moving?" Moved. It has been a whirlwind for these last few months. I am writing this story down for journaling sake so don't feel obligated.....
When Kambria was 1 week old, Kyrk, who was not supposed to be looking at houses, did and found a house he was really interested in. We went to go look at it and I really didn't like it. The house was maybe okay but it was kinda dirty and had ugly carpet and cupboards and I am holding my one week old baby thinking there was no WAY I was going to bring her into that house. I told Kyrk I didn't WANT a house like that (sounds very spoiled and I WILL blame it on the baby emotions). I got on line and found this AMAZING, beautiful, new, foreclosed house for an incredible deal. I said that I wanted a house like THAT. So we went to look at the house we refer to as the "dream house" and it was. Oh, it was..... the ending to that story is obvious since we are now renting....
Back to the story, we wanted to put in an offer on the house, but to put an offer we had to have our house on the market(online). I said that I would NOT put a sign in the yard because if this fell through we were taking the house off the market and no one would be the wiser. Long story short, we got 3 offers in 4 days. We lost the bid on the house- yes, many, many tears. We thought we would cancel everything and wait till spring but we had many people tell us we were CRAZY! And so here we were without anywhere to go, my baby was 2 weeks old and we were moving out of our house soon. Wait...did we just talk about crazy?
It is actually at these times that I really can see the hand of Heavenly Father in our lives. We felt really good about the third offer that came through, it was above our asking price and we ended up not having to move out till after Christmas. I was telling the mother of the boy I tutor that we were moving and she flipped out and told me her brother had just bought the house down the street and they aren't moving in till the summer so we could stay there. I could hear the choirs of heavenly angels singing around me. We could rent a house in our same neighborhood and Ally could stay in the same school without me having to take her there and pick her up everyday. She is actually closer to her bus stop now. Wow. Everything just kinda worked out perfectly, except the part where we haven't found a house that is. Okay, so maybe my sanity has taken a hit, but I am starting to feel whole again. I didn't mention this but in between all of this we had Thanksgiving, family for 10 days (which I loved, don't get me wrong!), Kambria's blessing, everything that goes along with Christmas, and to top it off- the day we moved was a big snow storm. The day after we finished cleaning the old house I got strep throat, then the next week, the flu. But I am feeling good now, I feel like I am looking at the world with new eyes, taking deep breaths (before my nose hairs freeze), and enjoying life for the moment- even if my house is filled with boxes!