Do we stay or do we go?

I would say that 2011 has not been so kind to us, but as much as that is true, we have still been blessed through out. We've just had a rough couple of months.

I have finally started sleeping again. In all seriousness, please give thanks for this. I am thinking that the insomnia started around April. I thought I had it all together. I thought I had people fooled. Wednesday night at church, a dear friend of the family asked how I was doing. Being someone I can be completely and totally honest with, I said that I was doing much better since I had been able to sleep every night for the past several nights. Her reply really surprised me...."I can tell. You look so much better. I have been so worried about you, because you have been looking so bad."

Did it hurt my feelings? Not one bit. I knew I was feeling bad from being so exhausted, but I had no idea that I was looking bad. It's been one of those times in my life that when people asked me how I was doing I simply replied that I was fine, just because I really didn't want to discuss everything with everyone. I thought by saying "I'm fine," it was believable since I looked fine. Apparently, this was not the case.

So maybe when you see me next, you will see someone who looks better than the last time you saw me, and hopefully, I will continue to look well rested.

With our ever expanding family, we have been tossing around the idea of selling our house. We have a home we are interested in, and we have already shown our house to three families already. Of those three, one family has been shown the house twice. It is a big decision for everyone involved. Truthfully, I just don't feel at peace about anything involving the house. No peace with staying. No peace with moving.

The crazy thing is we don't even have a "For Sale" sign in the yard. Several neighbors heard we were getting ready to sell, and they have done all the work. We thought that we might go ahead and put the house on the market, because with the economy, it may take a while to sell. But it may not.