Hi again! Two posts in one day...wow!
Ron is hunting right now and it has been pretty hard on the kids and I for several reasons.
1) The kids are older this year and miss their Dad more than ever.
2) I don't have my 'big girls' here to help (for the first time). Alyssa is visiting Kendra in Oregon for a few weeks before her trip to Uganda on the 23rd.
3) Ron took two trips this year and has been home for one day in the last ten days-usually he has a moose by the sixth to eighth day and is home.
Dillon prayed in the car yesterday that daddy would get home last night. :( He is missing his Dad! All three kids prayed at bedtime last night for God to bring daddy home safely and soon!
He will be back no later than Wednesday, he has to return to work on Thursday, so we have the potential of a few more days without him.
Please pray these things for us (and however else God leads you!):
1) Peace in our home-we need a supernatural peace to descend on us. We are all on edge and are tending to snap at one another rather than love one another.
2) Safety for us as Ron is gone.
3) No more migraines for me! I was in the ER Thursday at noon for shots for a killer migraine. God used several of my dear friends to 'fill in' by taking the kids on a walk, cooking dinner and driving me to and from the hospital. Nevertheless the kids were worried and stressed by mom being so sick while daddy was gone.
4) Sunshine. We all feel better when it is sunny.
Thanks again for holding us up in prayer! I am so thankful for you all!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
After living in the bush for nearly ten years, I thought that seeing a barge in the Bay was pretty commonplace...until I saw the barge pulling in last night (two days late)! I was SO excited! Why? Because that barge carries my flooring, appliances and furniture! In short, nearly everything we need to make the house our home! I can hardly wait! The flooring guy is ready to go as soon as the container with the flooring in it is located. The lights are all installed, with the exception of the hanging light in the stairwell. That one somehow got turned around in Anchorage by Fed-Ex. It is supposedly on its way back here...we will see!
I would like to ask you all to pray hard for something, please...we noticed a few weeks ago that there is still the smell of smoke upstairs. When the upstairs was gutted, most of it was sprayed and sealed with Kilz, but not the side attic storage areas. Ron and I pointed out the omission to Andrew (the guy who has done the lions share of the work) and he sprayed those attics after the walls had been rebuilt, insulated and drywalled. I am not sure whether or not the roof and ceiling joists were sprayed. Anyway, it still smells like smoke from aobut the middle of the stairwell on up the stairs and into the girls rooms. Ron and Andrew discussed it and Andrew thinks the smell is from the floor where the sealant has worn off from work crews. Ron authorized him to re-spray and lay a subfloor in the upstairs portion of the house. Please pray that this will solve the problem. If it does not we are left with a really yucky possiblity of having to gut the upstairs again! Really yucky on many fronts...time, money, flying a crew in from ANC AGAIN to re-do walls, winter is coming, and I could go on and on! :) I do know one thing-God is bigger than the lingering smell of smoke in the house! Actually, I know two things-God listens to the prayers, pleading and petitions of His people! Okay, make it three- all things, circumstances and events that touch my life are filtered through His fingers of love! Thank you so much for thinking of us and praying for us throughout this time of trauma, trial and triumph! It is a privelege for me to share with you all who God IS to us and what He has done and is doing in our lives.
Foe now I rest in this truth...my furniture, appliances and flooring are on that barge!!!
I would like to ask you all to pray hard for something, please...we noticed a few weeks ago that there is still the smell of smoke upstairs. When the upstairs was gutted, most of it was sprayed and sealed with Kilz, but not the side attic storage areas. Ron and I pointed out the omission to Andrew (the guy who has done the lions share of the work) and he sprayed those attics after the walls had been rebuilt, insulated and drywalled. I am not sure whether or not the roof and ceiling joists were sprayed. Anyway, it still smells like smoke from aobut the middle of the stairwell on up the stairs and into the girls rooms. Ron and Andrew discussed it and Andrew thinks the smell is from the floor where the sealant has worn off from work crews. Ron authorized him to re-spray and lay a subfloor in the upstairs portion of the house. Please pray that this will solve the problem. If it does not we are left with a really yucky possiblity of having to gut the upstairs again! Really yucky on many fronts...time, money, flying a crew in from ANC AGAIN to re-do walls, winter is coming, and I could go on and on! :) I do know one thing-God is bigger than the lingering smell of smoke in the house! Actually, I know two things-God listens to the prayers, pleading and petitions of His people! Okay, make it three- all things, circumstances and events that touch my life are filtered through His fingers of love! Thank you so much for thinking of us and praying for us throughout this time of trauma, trial and triumph! It is a privelege for me to share with you all who God IS to us and what He has done and is doing in our lives.
Foe now I rest in this truth...my furniture, appliances and flooring are on that barge!!!
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