Changes?

We have just been enjoying our summer and being lazy this week. I have SO enjoyed not having places that I have to be!

For being on a break, somehow I managed to rack up about 15 shirt orders this past week. I did have lots of fun doing them though and I'm almost finished with them all. One fun one that I did was a BMW logo for a baby shower. The baby's initials were going to be BMW, so my friend thought it would be funny to do the logo. And I cannot even believe this, but I think I totally forgot to take a picture of it. :( Oh well! It turned out really cute too!

In case you're wondering what happened to my whole "Sweet Repeats" idea, well Lauren was having a yard sale to raise money for Tucker, and I decided she would probably have way more luck selling the stuff at that, so I shipped it all to her. I'm not sure if I will keep doing it or not.........it's a lot of work to upload the pics in two different sizes and figure out shipping and all of that.

Plus, there may possibly be a lot of changes happening over here soon that will prevent me from keeping up with something like that. I'm not sure how we manage to get ourselves in the middle of these huge life changes without even realizing it, but we decided that we are most likely putting our house up for sale. I realized a lot about myself in this past week as we made this decision. I realized that I care a lot more about what people think of me than I thought. I also realized that I am way more materialistic and spoiled than I thought too.

So, here's what happened. It has always been a dream of ours to live on the bay. If you look at a map of TX, you'll see around Galveston that there are several bays on the inside of Galveston island. That's where the Houston Ship Channel is, etc. Well, currently we live right down the road from the bay. We were just talking last week about how our goal was to find a house on the bay one day. Well, miraculously, one came up for sale at a REALLY good price. The reason it's such a good price is that it has a tiny, outdated house that sits on the almost 2 acres of waterfront property. Most people wouldn't even consider that house, I bet, because of all the work it needs. But, because of what Morgan does for a living, we can easily do what needs to be done and make it a really nice house.

Well, the first thing I thought was what are we thinking? What will people think if we move into a house less than half the size of our current house. People will automatically think it's for financial reasons. People will think we're crazy. Then my thoughts turned to how spoiled I am. Our house is custom built and everything in it is really nice. Can I live in an older house again? Then I realized that the house we had before this one was built in the 70's and never once did I think twice about what people would think of it. I loved that house! When did I become so snobby?!! When did I become that person who cared what other people thought of me? I don't know when it happened, but I am not happy about it.

So, now we put our house on the market and see if it sells. It's a waiting game and I'm not good with patience, as you all know. It's going to be a challenge too, with the girls being home for the summer, to keep this house spotless so that it can be shown at a moment's notice. I know that if it's part of the Lord's plan, it will happen.

It sure would be nice to stand in my back yard and see this every day though!!
This is the view from the back yard of the house we want to buy!
You can't tell from this picture, but it has a huge hill that goes down to the water. The girls were having so much fun running up and down it the other day when we went to look at the house. Lily was having so much fun, she tripped and scratched her face and ate some grass in the process. LOL!!! :D