Christmas and New Years

We left on Sunday the 23rd for California to stay with my parents.  The drive was smooth going. I am always amazed and thankful for the weather, road conditions and light traffic that we experience every time we have driven over the mountain in the middle of winter over the last 13 years.  God is certainly gracious with us.  Christmas was very nice.  But as usual  it is always great to get back home. Our return trip was just as smooth.  Yesterday was a day of laundry, unpacking, and putting things away.  In the evening we went to friends house and stayed way late.  My oldest did see the new year ring.  It was a fun impromptu visit.  Today, the first day of 2008 is spent in jammies, with football on, laundry going, eating and relaxing.  I love days like this. Oh, and in the afternoon we will go see our new old home. We got the keys last night.  What a crazy way to ring in the new year.  We have much work to do now, both on the house we are in to get it ready to sell, and the house we will move into.

Last year this time I was very sick.  It came upon me at Christmas and didn’t leave until midway through January. I am not sure I really recovered from the stress of being sick, life, school etc.  In March I crazily took on a part time work from home job.  At the same time I got in a car accident.  I was not a happy person and finally at the end of April I decided I needed to see a doctor.  It was clear that I had plunged into the depths of depression and I knew it was necessary to take action to get well again. Once I began taking the right medication I was on the road to recovery. I needed to take a much needed blogging break, confess much garbage in my life and get right with God.  What a great and mighty God I have to care about me and to be with me during such a difficult time.  I am learning more and more to trust in Him and to rely on his strength.  He has been gracious to heal me, and to heal my marriage and allow hubby and I to get closer and stronger.  (We didn’t have serious problems, just some much needed maintenance that a good Christian counselor was able to help us with).  We closed the year with the purchase of a house which in an of itself can be stressful, and even more so in December.  Hubby and I remained in unity through the whole process and the Lord blessed us in this transaction. I see him leading the way in our lives and I am so excited to see what He has planned for us in 2008.  So goodbye 2007 and good riddance.

Susan