IN THE WORKS

Hello everyone,
Had a great weekend. My in laws from chehalis came and surprised all the grandkids with a visit on saterday. My daughter Maddison had a soccor game and they showed up there. Not only did she get that surprise, she scored her second goal of the season while they were there. It was priceless. I can't wait to get the pictures back. She immediately threw her arms in the air and turned to her cheering section. Gotta love that!!
We also made an offer on a house this weekend. It was totally a God thing. We had decided to wait for a year or two before we baught a place. We checked into IT back in early sept. but did not feel alot of peace about it so we decided we would just wait. Unless God just happened to drop something amazing in our lap that screamed " here look at this" , we were content to stay put. Let me take you back a few months. Last june i went to a garage sale and somehow got into a conversation with the owner about our recent move to lebanon and desired to buy in about 6mo. WEll she said her house might be on the market then. I loved her house. it was on a1/2 an acre and was a old craftsmen. BIG, BEAUTIFUL and had a great front porch. She offered to give me a tour. ofcourse i loved it. I gave her my # and name and kinda forgot about it. Well my land lord came by about a month ago and told me that the house i went to the sale and got a tour of was for sale and that she wanted me to know. I was stumped. How did you connect the dots? How did you guys do that? Turns out our landlords and the owners ot the house are best friends. she drove by my house one day and saw the table and chairs i baught at her house in my drive way and made the connection with her friends, our landlords. So once again it kinda left my mind after he left, cuz we were now in a place where we wanted to stay here for a while, we were content. and i told our landlord that....unless god just happened to drop something amazing in our lap would be her for a while.. Fast forward about a week. I answere the door and it was the lady from the garage sale house. She wanted to let me know that it was on the market and she told me the price and it was about 15 thousand more than we could afford. i told her exactly the max that we could afford, we were getting a V.A. loan. and i told her thankyou for thinking of us and she left. once again i let it go, but secretely in my heart i said to myself, oh i love that house Lord. Wouldn't it be a miracle if they didn't care about money and came back? Then i woke up from my little fantasy and went on with my day. Well on friday there was a knock at the door. It was her again, she said "MY husband and i have been talking and we wanted to let you know that we would like you to make an offer for whatever you can afford. MY mouth just dropped open, iam like are you serious? She said that they have inherited property and will be living with a grandparent for free. and they will build. so money is not as big of an issue. So again she said, I know where you guys are at financially, but make an offer and we will discuss it. she also said that they new that they were way below market value, but wanted to just sell it and get on with moving. I am about to explode inside cuz i am so excited. We made an appointment for my husband to go look at it on this past friday and ofcours he loved it too. So we made a verbal offer that night for our max amount. Since it is VA , seller is required to pay a certain amount of the closing costs. They have no choice in the matter. So that would put them a little bit below our max, which is way below there original price. But they knew where our offer would be, they just did not know about the closing cost. So..... they are trying to decide what they want to do. we are just waiting. This alll came to us, we did not go looking for it. So it is completetly in the Lords hands. I feel very at peace about either outcome. It will be a bit of a stretch for us for a little while. We will have to really tighten the belt and no more starbucks. It will be worth it though. I also just applyed for a part time job as an aid at the school. That too is up the god. I think this is an amzing story and if it all works out or not, god will get all the Glory. I think he is incredible how he works out details when he wants something done, or not done. We really do not have to worry, when we give to him. HAVE A GREAT DAY
TINA