A Rain Shower of Blessings.......well more like a Downpour :)

As some of you have noticed I am not the most consistent blogger. I allow so many events to  happen and go past and then think....oh maybe  I should have documented that...oops lol! Well these last couple of weeks have been crazy so bare with me while I share about how God allowed Davy and I to be showered with blessings. Well.....showered isnt the right word. How about DOWNPOUR!!  (Yes, I am the daughter of a weather guru which is why I only use weather terms to describe big events :) )

So backing up to about almost two and a half weeks ago. Well...I guess I should go a little farther back. God  has blessed me with a husband that can do just about any task set before him. So starting in January he was creating a painting/contracting business. It was going well for a while, but we both knew that it was not going to be able to be a long term thing, it was more to help us while he was applying and looking for other possibilities. Well, as the summer went on the customers started slowing down and we both began to be even more serious about finding alternative jobs. He applied to Liberty University, but neither one of us were very sure if they would call back with all the applications they get. Oh, ye of little faith! I unfortunate quite often find myself limiting God's power and this was such the case. I mean if God can create our world, part the Red Sea, do miracle after mircale in the Bible and so many other things why is it so HARD for me to believe that He can provide for me and Davy. Sigh..... convicting thought to ponder.

Anyway, two and half weeks ago my husband got a call from LU. I was upstairs literally on my knees just praying that Davy would get the job. Now I expected the phone interview to go on and have the interviewer tell Davy that they would call back later with their decision. You know when a down pour of rain can hit suddenly like its raining and then all of the sudden without much warning it just pours. Well thats about what happened here. Twenty minutes after Davy answered the phone he yells upstairs saying he was offered and had accepted the job!!!!! Thats when the downpour hit. :) He got the job on a Wednesday and then he started that Monday. I was still soaking in the fact that he had a job before I realized.......oh wait......we have to move....in two weeks......3 hours away.

And then the not so pretty, worrying, anxious version of myself that I try to lock away, started creeping out. Thankful for the most part I held this awful version of myself at bay, but occasionally in the last two weeks she has come out and I am ashamed to admit that I did not try to stop her. I know that God knew what was going to happen, where we were going to live, and how it was all going to work out on getting our belongings down there. But again me and my little faith had a wrestling match with God about who was going to control this situation. Thankfully God won out. I started praying every-time Davy and I hit a road block in this whole transition. Not just praying for it to work out, but also thanking Him in advance for what He was going to do. And even though this whole thing did pan out on my time it all worked out the way God intended it too. My husband found us the most adorable duplex which I had not seen until two days ago and absolutely love it!!!  It was like Christmas but instead of a box of something I got a cozy two bedroom house. God is so good!! He worked out everything for me to transition down here very easily and thanks to our wonderful parents all of our belongings are safely in our new home. Yes, there were some road blocks like the down pour of rain on both days we moved this past weekend. And I would love to say I handled it with a smile on my face, but I did allow my worry wort self to show her ugly face for a short time, but I stuffed her back pretty quick. :) So literally we did have a downpour of blessings. :) And through all of that only like one item that wasnt even that important got a little wet. :)

So its been a long two weeks. Davy and I are exhausted, but happy. We are glad to finally be together after a long two weeks apart. And I am so grateful that God is faithful even when I waver. And I am so humbled and in awe at His overwhelming downpour of blessings in our lives. Thank you to all our friends and family in Northern Virginia for your prayers and help. We will be back to visit often!

And so starts our new journey together enjoying life, love and the little moments in between.

Until next time. :)

Cucumber anyone??

Wow, its been awhile. At the time I started this blog it was because I had alot of time on my hands and needed a project. However, my world became quite busy with two jobs and then house work, and weddings and wedding showers and baby showers and on and on the list goes. :) The last time I wrote I had big plans of decorating my house. Well, lets just say decorations are alot more expensive than I originally thought. So that project is on hold while I save some money. So I am onto another project. I started a garden a couple of months ago and while its not the prettiest thing in the world it is producing  nicely. I have been very excited about my garden and couldnt wait to eat the lettuce and zucchini and carrots. So tonight my husband and I went out to see how it all was doing and we found a ton of what I had thought was zucchini. So we took one inside, washed it and cut off a chunk to taste....it tasted very good, but it did not taste like zucchini. Probably because instead of zucchini.....it was a cucumber. So I now have a garden full (and when I say full I mean really full) of carrots, lettuce and most of all......cucumbers. Oh the little things we learn. Next year I will read labels more clearly. I guess the best thing to do is just laugh......and find a lot of recipes for cucumbers. :) If any of my blogger friends out there have any ideas on what to do with a ton of cucumbers besides salad let me know or if you ever need a free cucumber and are in the area give me a call I will give you a couple. :)

In Remembrance.......

Hello Everyone. Today is a bittersweet moment for myself and my family. Today my Grandfather, my mothers dad, slipped quietly away to meet his Savior. While we can rest in knowing where he is and rejoice that he is no longer suffering, the pain of losing a loved one is still acute. Please pray as my parents are traveling down early tomorrow morning to help my grandmother and my aunts and uncles plan and prepare for the funeral. Also pray that I will be able to make it. I desire so much to be there for my family, but more importantly for my Mom. I do not know if I can express how grateful I am to know where my Grandfather is right now. It really helps me understand how special my Faith really is, because even at the bleakest of moments we can find hope and even rejoice. So in honor of Pop's Nightingale: I love you and miss you already.

The Battle of the Stinkbugs!!

Thanks to those who gave me some great feedback about my last post through facebook and on here. I am not going to be able to go shopping until Wednesday, but I will post lots of pics once I start. Heres a question.....anyone know the secret to killing stinkbugs??? Thankfully we dont have to many but they all seem to congregate in the kitchen (gross!!!).  Im not to afraid of most bugs...but stinkbugs are the worst for me to handle. I seriously think they are looking right at me every time I try to kill them. Most of the time I have my husband take care of them. :) My knight in shining armor. :}
  Anyways, if you have any suggestions please let me know. Well, I hope you all have a great week and look for some pics of the decorating process on Wednesday. We will see how it goes! Ciao!

~Tuscany~

So I had a blog at one point with pretty much nothing on it because I was just going to record my everyday tasks. Well I quickly realized that I did not want to write about my mundane routine of washing dishes, doing laundry and other various tasks so why would anyone want to read them. Especially when most of us do that all day anyway. So instead I am going to write about the process of decorating my house!! Mostly because I need help, because decorating has never been my strong point. I have good ideas, but I have no confidence in them which has left our house mismatched with barren walls.

Home has always been important to me and because of that my style has always been one of comfort which is what I am going to use throughout the house. I want to be able to relax no matter what room I am in. Because lets face it we live in a country where people believe the more you do the better you are and the more successful you are. Well, I was born wound to tight and I do not want that or this fast paced world to enter my home when I walk through the door. So to begin this decorating journey I have read that I need to first settle on a theme and then in some fashion put that theme to use in every room using different colors that flow from one floor to the next. Well, here is my theme: Tuscany, Italy!! My mother is half sicilian and that heritage has always fascinated me. Now Tuscany isnt Sicily, but there is just something about the warm colors and art that Tuscany has that make me what to just sit and bask in the wonder of God. If you don't believe me look at my background image or google Tuscany and you will know what I am talking about. I also like country type decor and thankfully Tuscany incorporates both country and Italy which is meravigliosa (wonderful in Italian :))   So as a newlywed I come across the most famous obstacle: money. Decor is so expensive!! So my first question is how do you all decorate on a budget? I am kinda crafty and what I don't know how to do I am willing to learn. So if you have any ideas let me know. I will keep you posted as I begin to decorate each room.   Arrivederci!!!!