So. Much News!

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

I suppose I know that saying by rote now.  It's Friday night, and I'm sitting on my couch again with my cats furnishing warmth and purring (known as motors, in my world), and feeling generally pleased. It's been an exhausting journey from November to now! My new job...there's just so much information! So much I simply don't know. I learn something new every single day...and wonder if I'll ever 'get' it fully. I work with some remarkable people who are very helpful and very, very patient!

My new car...well, this was one thing I wasn't planning on, but when someone smashes in to the back of your car and totals it....you get a new one. You also learn a new level of gratefulness for being alive, safe, and generally happy. I'm still driving a MINI, but it's three years newer than what I was driving, and it has 80,000 less miles on it. I walked away with some bruising. Kind of mind boggling.

I needed a place to stay....and (yet again) help moving. Enter, my family. My mom housed me for three weeks, my siblings and their families and my son showed to help me move not once, but twice. There aren't words enough to express my appreciation for their thoughtfulness.

Then...there's the house. My home. This place I get to turn the key to daily, lock the doors, and know that I'm not renting. I'm purchasing. I'm owning it, little by little.

I've told several friends that I feel like the luckiest woman around. Lucky....even while my bruises healed, my arms, shoulders, and back ached from unpacking, sorting through, hanging shelves, and putting together a piece of furniture that almost got the best of me! Lucky to have had such a great realtor, who found me a lender that was so very easy to work with, and who kept his word.

I'm in awe, really of how great my life is right now. And wondering what else could be around the corner. Planting flowers, mowing the lawn, sitting on my porch or deck (yeah, I have both!), and drinking in the sunshine, feeling more and more each day like this is mine, and understanding all that I've accomplished....and how many extraordinary people have been placed in my life who've helped me get to where I never thought I'd be.

My cats were so well cared for while waiting on my house! They've pretty much adjusted to our new home, though they might miss being as spoiled as they were when being kitty-sat! My new car lives in a garage! Pictures are on the walls, food is in the fridge, locks are changed, and I'm beyond thrilled. I'm still in shock over the events of the last few months!

If anyone reading this, anywhere, is looking at their life and thinking they just can't do it any more, all I can say to you is don't give up! Life changes on a dime, and you're suddenly surrounded by things you might never have even dreamt could be a reality!