Happy Almost-Spring!

So I think I have proven to be a much better "Facebooker" than blogger, but I'll never stop trying!:-)

This past winter has been a huge blur of activity, change, and character-building. I won't go into details, but I WILL say that I learned a lot of powerful lessons. One was something that I think is hard for ALL of us. I was too busy...WAY busier than I even realized until after I quit one of my part-time jobs and scaled back to just my music therapy clients and being on-call at the hospital (and even THAT sounds kinda nutty). It dawned on me that I was just so USED to having my life crazy because I had done the work/school thing for so long. I remember feeling extremely antsy on one of my first weekdays that I had nothing going on...my first instinct was actually..."maybe I should find more clients....or pick up more shifts at the hospital". It sounds silly, but in a way, I was addicted to...or at least extremely stuck in the mode of... being busy. And while I do think it's good for us to keep at least somewhat busy...I am learning that (duh) it really is ok to not be running around like a chicken with no head and then collapse into bed every night. I know that there are periods of time where we all have to do that...but we should really only do it WHEN we have to. I now have time to keep our apartment clean on a more consistant basis. I am able to cook and bake, which happens to be a favorite hobby of mine anyway:-) I am able to spend more time in the Word and in prayer, and I have done NOTHING but benefit from this. I can spend more time with Josh...I LOVE spending time with Josh:-) Anyway...the list can go on and on, but my point is...my life is MUCH more balanced now and I certainly have no problem with that:-)

On another subject...Josh and I are in the midst of looking for a house! It's very exciting that this is something that is now a possibility for us, but we are also taking our time and trying to figure out the confusing market right now...and trying to see if the prices will drop even more. They say it's a buyers market now, which is true in a lot of ways, but it's also tricky because a lot of the options out there are either short sales or foreclosures, both of which have a lot of complications and possible hang-ups attached to them, so we are keeping an open mind but also hoping to find a good one that is NOT under one of these umbrellas:-) I'll definitely keep you posted on this...but for now, we are just looking:-)

Hope you're enjoying the snowy/rainy/hailing/cloudy/sunny/you-name-it weather we are having!