When moving to Florida, It never crossed my mind we would live in Louisville again. In fact I am still struggling with it being a reality in my head. I thought we would never be near family, somewhere familiar, etc. again, and I was okay with that. Jimmy Scroggins once told me I would be happier and safer anywhere inside of God's will than I ever would be at "home" out of God's will. Imagine my surprise when Will looked at me after several phone conversations one night a couple of weeks ago and said "what about Louisville? God is calling me to be apart of Sojourn Community Church."
It was difficult to leave Florida. Most can't understand that because "I was getting to go home." But to me Florida had become my home.
We are so happy here in Louisville and love, I mean LOVE our church. We get to hear the Gospel every week and they have a wonderful children's program. I will write a whole post on Sojourn soon. It has been so sweet to get to reunite with family and friends. We think we have the best friends in the whole world, friends that pray for us, spend time with us, help us, encourage us, laugh with us and raise our kids with us.
Will has an 8-4:30 job that he enjoys and that pays the bills as well as interning at Sojourn. I am working for my old boss, Kelli 10 hours a week.
My parents graciously opened up their homes to us, so we are staying with my dad for a few months and then will stay with my mom for a few months. This is such a blessing because we are going to knock out student loans very quickly. We are on a complete spending freeze until we are out of debt. I mean, fun will be days at home and at parks (we are not getting zoo membership, etc), clothes will be washed often because I kept the kids fall and winter wardrobe down to the necessities we will be joyfully using our I phone 3's until they don't make calls anymore, no vacations, etc. We have everything we need and more and are so content not to make purchases!
Liam and Penelope made the adjustment seamlessly! Two of our precious friends from Florida helped us make the trip up here. And the kids are so flexible they haven't missed a beat.
Penelope has the most personality I have ever seen in a baby! She is always smiling! She will be 4 months tomorrow. She is still exclusively breastfed and Lord willing will stay that way until 6 or 7 months when we start a few solids. She rolls over and does the tripod sitting up, she is pretty tough as her big brother is getting more playful with her. Liam will be 2 and a half next week and he is so sweet and fun! He is slowly but surely improving on his speech, which we are thankful for.
Sometimes it is scary to follow the Lord's will but it is always a blessing.
