Happy Thursday all!!! Just wanted to give a little weekly update. Finally everyone in our household is feeling better!!! Woohoo!!! Seems like forever since we didn't have a cough or runny something. But besides the normal annoying allergies we are all good ;)
As most of you have already heard my parents have purchased a home here in Ridgway AND it's not far from our house....actually its a whole 4 houses down...think they wanna keep an eye on us. Haha! No, really it just worked out that way. God has deftly opened doors for them and been answering many prayers with their housing situation. They are still currently trying to sell their home in Denver and have a Realtor working hard on that. So hopefully God will answer that big prayer one way or the other. They got a great deal on the home here and it needs lots of work and yet still, again, God is opening doors to provide in that area. Work has been coming in for my Dad and great deals on things needed for the new home. God is working in this situation in a huge way....mainly by giving peace in the unknown when needed the most. We have spent sometime in the new home simply clearing out tons and tons of garbage! It's pretty gross how people choose to live....ick!!! Oh the smell was horrible!!!! And let me tell you, I am in no way use to physical labor anymore and one day in that home left me beat!!!! But its pretty much cleared out with just two rooms left to clear! One huge dumpster full!!! Next would be a new roof when my Dad returns from MONTANA!!! And yes I am extremely jealous that my Dad is out visiting my sister, nieces and nephew. I have never been able to make it out that way and oh how I wish I could...someday! I am glad my Dad got sometime away and that my sister got some much needed time with family! So while my Dad is away we are very blessed to have my Mom here with us. It's been super nice!!!!
Steve is currently been blessed with another side job, much needed right now to help catch up on some bills! God answered prayers again!!! So he works all day and then comes home and heads over to our neighbors home and continues working! Today he is hoping to pour the concrete drive way and the few sidewalk areas that needed replaced. Hoping no rain heads our way!! Steve has also been out in the woods a few days and seen lots and lots of deer...what a tease!!!! No capable shots! But we're hoping one of these times we'll be able to get a freezer full of meat!!!
As for me...busy busy! Haha! School for Trent, Awana, court, cleaning, cooking, laundry, all the norm that almost any mom deals with daily! However next week we head to Lancaster County and I will be working for a few days with my Dad. I'm excited and yet dreading it. Dreading the tired, beat feeling that I know will come after about 3-4 hours of working. Not my thing anymore! I have to say I am more then happy being the stay at home mom, physical labor jobs and coming home to children and house is not fun in anyway! Props to working moms!!!!
Trent continues to love school and Awana, and he's also doing very well in both. I'm so proud of him!!! I couldn't believe the first time he wrote his name for me all by himself!!! Yep I teared up! He loves cooking with me and I usually don't mind the assistance. He's still very much into dinosaurs and doctor stuff. however he wants to be a ghost for halloween...mommy needs to work her magic on a costume!
And RyleeRoo...oh what a little blessing she is. Haha! She is all personality! She continues to let it shine, demanding, dramatic, brighter then anything, silly, cuddly, so many things all balled up into this little package. She keeps things interested. She deftly wears me out and frustrates me more then anything but shes teaching me something all along the way and she truly is a blessing in our lives. Hey she'll out grow this....right??!! As for court the other day. It went as expected. Rylee will continue to stay in our home till next April when we will have another court date to evaluate "moms" progress. Her mom is still currently in a facility in Reading, she claims its not a mandatory thing and that shes simply finishing out her parole there in a simple housing facility. Her release date is November 11th. The judge did drill into her the importance of her rehabilitation and changing her current situation as January is rolling around quite fast. Federal law requires CYS to petition the court to take custody for a child in the system 15 out of 22 months. So come January we could be looking at Adopting Rylee!! Not getting my hopes up, just praying that God continues to place this little girl where she needs to be. "Dad" has finally responded with his first phone call to CYS last week. Sadly he wants nothing to do with Rylee and is happy with where she is. He is ready to sign over his rights. SAD! He hasn't even meet this little girl and he wants to simply walk away....and yet I feel I need to thank him. Thank him for making the decision that he can't take care of this little girl and is willing to keep her where she is loved and well taken care of physically and mentally. I wish "mom" would be this selfless.
So while I sit here and look at the changing of the leaves and enjoy this crisp fall morning weather I thank God. Thank God for answered prayers, some that are being answered currently, some that have been answered already, and the ones that will be answered. We are blessed beyond all measures!
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