EastCoastLove

Since the last post i took the two boys to Virginia for 10 days. Boy was that exhausting! They did great on the flight out and slept pretty good. Asher is at the three naps a day time so we were pretty strapped to my mom's house. Which is fine just limits what we can do. We went to the pool once with my sister and her kids, went to the mall twice for the play area, got to see two of my college friends and one life long friend, and took two days to go to the beach.  The flight back to Texas was so hard cause i was so tired and had no patience. Thankfully my mom came with so no meltdowns happened. Took advantage of the beach to snap some pictures of the boys.   We landed and kimmel drove us to the new house! We were delighted to come to the house but it still wasn't finished. I had lots of calls and little projects to accomplish before it was livable. I have tried for three days now to write a post after getting your weird email setup -being in the country we had only...

When we started this roller coaster ride two years ago our family motto was "live like no one else, so you can live like no one else later." Taken from Dave Ramsey and his debt free teachings. We were chasing a dream and it was fun and exciting at first but during this year of actual building and planning our house i have learned that i am a true selfish, entitled american! blah i hate even writing that! When we started the build we built to the amount of what we could afford monthly, kimmel figured out the numbers, i was lucky to find a small plan that didn't feel apartment like or just awkward flow.  When talking to people about it i found my self being embarrassed or explaining why we didn't have an extra room for an office or why the boys will be sharing a room. I didn't like that feeling. I didn't like thinking my "dream home" really wasn't the right size. I asked the Lord to help me be content with what we can afford...to not compare and ...