St. Joseph: Pray for us!

So many updates on the house front. St. Joseph has been our best friend lately :) Lots of prayers sent his way during this buying and selling process. We officially have four days left in our option period with our new home in Sugar Land. Our inspection went really well (somewhat to our surprize) so we are thrilled with our new house and we can't wait to close on it. Our official close date is February 28th. We have some work to do before we move in so it won't be until mid to late March probably before we really move in. We are going to go there sometime this week to figure out which one of the laminate wood floor samples match the stair case wood. I will take some pictures while we are there so I can share them here. Its really a beautiful home and we feel so blessed to have found it!

Our home is showing well. We had a bit of a slow week as it was terrible weather all week here. We were almost getting bummed out...and then my phone was ringing off the hook for appointments this weekend. Thank you St. Joseph! We did have an offer on the house last weekend, less than two weeks on the market, but it was kind of a ridiculous offer. We countered by meeting them half way and they refused our offer. Not the right buyer for sure. We are eager for the right one to come along. Gods will be done!

Jacob was in Albuquerque all week and as I said before it rained all week...it was of a challenging week for the boys and I. Too many days inside the house and we were all clawing at the walls a bit. We went to mass this morning to celebrate St. Blaise's feast day and mass went SUPER long. Not going to lie and say my boys were perfect but we did make it without having to step out once and we were in the church for an hour and forty five minutes! I'll take that one as a win for sure. Tonight we picked up Jacob and then dropped him immediatly off for a pastoral council working retreat. It was a bit of an attention fight in the car as we were all dying to talk to Daddy! The boys and I went to Chick Fil A for dinner and by the time we got there Mommy was definitely in a grouchy mood (poor boys)! We ate our dinner and then I set them loose on the playground. I looked over to see Curtis boosting his little brother up each step of the climbing structure as Nicholas was just a bit too short to do it himself. They played so very nicely...and God put a few kiddos in there to contrast their sweet dispositions (read...wow...shockingly awful) and make me even more thankful for my sweet boys. We got in the car and Curtis had a lot to say about the sister and brother who were not playing nicely at all. "Why were they nice to everyone but each other Mommy? They are family!" Bad mood busted for sure. Thankful for my lovely boys who really are the best of friends. Yet another much neeeded reminder to live in this moment. Not the moment when we move, or start work on our house, or sell this house, this moment! The moment we are in and living and loving right this second. They grow too fast to let two months blow by being stressed about moving/selling/buying!