SPRING!!!

i LOVE spring! after a long, cold winter, the circle continues and it is now just bursting with new life!  new promises of lovely things, new hope.

i think today, the first day of spring,  is such a fitting day to begin writing again.  because that is where i am in my life--SPRING!!!  a whole new chapter starts--

we moved out of the brawley road house and into a beautiful new one on march 1st.  this is sooooo different for us.  i have not had close neighbors in 30 years.  our last house (of 3 years) had us on 2 1/2 acres, and the one before that had us on 5.  the new house is probably on an eighth of a acre if even that.  the area is really nice with all of the schools being walked to instead of the bus.  we are at the end of a cul-de-sac and have a little parkway that runs between the streets that leads to the park and school.  there are lit gazebos and picnic tables along the parkway.  i am in love with having grass right out my door that i do not have to take care of!!!  there are always families, groups of people, or people alone walking, jogging, walking dogs, bike riding etc. down the walkway.  it is a multicultural area and so nice to see people using and enjoying their neighborhood.

there are 4 fifth graders on our street now that tadhgain is here!  that has been an answer to prayer!  friends for tadhgain......and a few 8th graders for caoin as well, but he is not as outgoing, so has yet to meet them.  he is also finishing his 8th grade year at his old school as is one of the other boys, so they don't all go to school together yet......

there is ALOT of finishing to do in settling in here.  going from a 3000 sq ft house to less than 2000 is pretty tough.  especially for me and all of my sewing stuff.  boy howdy do i ever need to get a handle on THAT!  and, sadly, there was not room for my long arm machine inside the house, so it is set up in the garage.....that makes me VERY sad.....it also  tells me that we will not be in this house for very long--atleast a year, but who knows how much longer than that.....

before, that would have scared me.  it was VERY scary for me to get a house on my own.  i have always been with kevin or my parents.  i was never on my own.  and, i wasn't on my own this time either--God was surely with me.  it is really a miracle that we are in this house.  i know it is where i belong for now.