~GREETINGS ONE AND ALL ~
Hello to everyone who has entered
my little casa on the web! I invite
you to just prop up your feet and sit
back in a favourite chair and enjoy
yourself as you browse through
my latest pages. I do hope you all
enjoy them as much as I have had
putting them up for your pleasure!
You know I just want to say how good
GOD has been to me and my family.
Both of our daughters have wonderful
husbands who are good to them
and provide lovely homes for them
and their children. I have five beautiful
grandies (and another one on the
way) who I dearly thank GOD for!
I don't get to see the ones in Kentucky
very often, maybe someday I will see
them more. I do love them all so very much!
And for my two daughters, I thank
GOD for every day. My husband is
GOD's gift to me and for that I am
very thankful and blessed! He is
my heart, my partner, my soul-mate,
my friend, my love, my all in all here
on earth and for almost twenty
wonderful years we have shared
our lives together, and by the grace
of GOD we shall be together eternally
with our FATHER in heaven.
We met in Nevada, and moved to
Kentucky, and on to Vermont, and from
there we went to Connecticut and
back to Kentucky. We then moved
to Ohio and now live in Iowa.
It is not my home state and my
heart is forever in Kentucky, the
beautiful state of my birth and where I
grew up, but now I am in Iowa
with my youngest daughter
and her family and with my
precious husband, so I am content
to live in the wonderful house that
GOD has allowed us to buy. It was
so hard staying here and looking and
waiting and hoping, and wishing and
praying and watching things go
on and the days followed one upon
another til I had about given up
hopes of ever seeing a house
that I could say was to be mine.
It seemed to take forever, (over 16 months
to be exact) to sell the house in
Ohio and thank GOD it finally sold
after three times of thinking it was
sold but no financing for the people
and it fell through each time!
But GOD, in HIS own time, not mine,
saw to it that the Ohio house sold
and closed just in time (on Nov. 5th)
and this house that we have found
just came on the market Nov. 17th.
and we signed papers the 20th and
got the loan and will close on it on
Dec. 17th (my hubby's birthday)!
It wasn't even the house I wanted
when we went to see houses!
The house we checked out with our
realtor was on 10th Street and when
we went to see it, it was right in the
"flight path" of the airport and while
we were there, about 8-10 planes
went over while we were inside and
outside the house and it was
terribly noisy! I bet we could have
reached up and tickled the pilot's
feet..LOL! Well not quite, but
they flew down really low overhead!
And so we said "no' to it and we
were kind of "down in the dumps"
about it, so hubby just drove around
a few blocks and we spotted a few
houses with "flyers" of information
in the yards and then we drove by
this house and I got the "flyer" and
looked like I just "knew this was it"
but the price seemed "out of reach"
for us, I thought. So we checked
on it the next day with the realtor
and as I was walking through one
of the rooms, it was like a voice
spoke in my head and said: "This is yours."
Then I went through the house and like
the seagulls in "Finding Nemo"
(the kids movie) I said:
"Mine, mine, mine, mine."
And to GOD be the glory,
for we were in for the holidays!
I thank all of you for every one
of the prayers said for me and
my family and the house situation
over the past year! It was just what
I have wanted in a house. Three
bedrooms, 2 baths, a huge full basement that is
made into a big bedroom and sitting
room also. At least two arched
doorways, the windows in the
bathroom look like those big ice cubes
(know what I mean?) I have a room just
for the doggies (the TV room to be
exact) so they are also close to the
door to the backyard for
convenience! The backyard
is huge and fenced. The front yard
is very big, too! There is a garage
(or work shop) in the back for hubby, too.
The room upstairs that were two
bedrooms (joined across together)
we made into a huge children's room
for the grandkids to play in with
all kinds of toys! The drawers are also
"built in" to the walls just as
I have told Johnny many years
that I would love to have!
The one bedroom downstairs is
our computer room too! Anyway
this house is something that I think
GOD had in mind for me when
I moved here and it took all of
16 months to sell the Ohio house,
get the people here to fix this one up
some more and for us to find it three
days after it was put on market!
And for the price we got it, the banker
lady said:" I just don't understand
how you got that much house for
that little money." It isn't "cheap"
by any means, but for this lovely
neighbourhood and the condition
of the house and the size of it, the
price was fantastic and who but GOD
could put it together and close it and
we move into it in under a MONTH!?
WOOOO-HOOOO!!
GOD is the greatest!
Nice, huh? I want you all to
know that this isn't "bragging
and being a show off" so
please don't think I am being
that way; this is just praising GOD
for all of HIS goodness in
allowing us to live in this
lovely home, for I have already told
HIM that it is HIS home
and I just live here in it.
Globe made for me by Terri's-Treasures
