Y’all I couldn’t believe it. The dreaded “M” word was spoken too soon. MOVE is a four letter word in our house. I didn’t want to MOVE again! Here is how it all went down.

On July 31, 2019, I was doing all my last minute packing, family was coming into town, and we were all about to fly out the next day for a long awaited trip to Israel! We had always wanted to go and so Caleb organized it and we started planning the trip a year prior. It was finally here and we were to leave the next day. 

While running around trying to get our last things packed, Caleb calls me aside. He looks at me with those eyes I’ve seen so many time and says, “I need to talk to you for a minute”. I already knew what he was going to say even before he said it. He told me he had gotten a call that morning and he had a job offer in Houston and we had to decide if we were going to say YES by in the morning! 

Seriously, right now...I couldn’t even breathe in the moment. As tears streamed down my face, I wanted to ask why, how, when, why, why and WHY! As I gathered my composure and thoughts, I immediately left and went to Whataburger and ate some fries with gravy and cried. I cried to the fries and they got to hear all about it.

Y’all I could believe it. The dreaded “M” word was spoken too soon. MOVE is a four letter word in our house. I didn’t want to MOVE again! 

Ok, now fast forward to about 11:00 pm the same day...our Josephine from Uganda, Africa is about to go into her visa interview appointment and find out if she will get to come to the USA to start her college education. 

As I walked into my bathroom to get ready for bed, I have a stack of bible verse cards I read each day. As I flipped the card over, this is what it read…WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. My heart had hope. I went and got in bed and waited.

After about an hour of waiting, the phone starts ringing and FaceTime shows up...I see a beautiful, big smile and she said, “I GOT IT, I GOT IT!!!” She was awarded the visa!!! I started to scream. I couldn’t believe it. We met her precious face 12 years earlier (photo below) in Uganda and she finally got to come be with us and come to America (more on her story along with her sister, Juliet in a future post)! I could hardly sleep. I went from a complete low to a complete high in about 8 hours. 

The photo below is the first time we met Josephine during our first trip to Uganda.

The next day, we were off to Israel. I felt like my balloon was deflated! I wanted to be excited for the trip but I wasn’t. However in my weakness, I felt so close to him. My heart was open, my ears were listening, and my eyes were seeing. I wanted to take it all in and listen to His voice. In my sadness, he encouraged me each day with his whispers of hope! It’s all going to be okay. 

Well, my husband accepted the job in Houston, we got back from the trip 10 days later (more to come on the TRIP OF A LIFETIME) and Josephine arrived the next day.

School started for the girls a few days later. There wasn’t any time to try to transfer Josephine with her visa and all and the girls were so mad we were moving so we decided to just stay put for the semester and move in January. Those were the hardest days and months of my life. It was hard with Caleb being gone all week, the girls being so mad at me, and then Josephine was like “a fish out of water” in a new country and me trying to keep it all together.

December couldn’t come soon enough. Although I was so sad to leave the Dallas area, I was ready for us all to be together again. I don’t do well when I don’t have my second half. He is the calm to my storm!!!!! We moved in January 2020. 

*Photo below is the exact depiction of how I felt trying to live life while knowing we were moving for 6 months!

I loved my new home we bought and couldn’t wait to get my decorating hands on it. So stay tuned. There will be lots of before and afters of our new home! With quarantine and lots of times on my hands, let’s just say there were MANY projects that went down. 

Keep redeeming!