Update from Abilene

I am finally in our house in Abilene. I lived with my brother and his family for a full month. They are the best and we are very thankful for them. Our house is growing on me even though it is VERY old and still needs a lot of work. We have put in new carpet, tiled one bathroom, tiled the counter tops, put in a new kitchen sink, and painted everything. We still need to tile the back splash in the kitchen, tile the other bathroom, change out the counter tops in both bathrooms, pretty much redo one whole bathroom, and paint the cabinets in the kitchen. All of this will be over the year though. We have to spread out the work even though I would love to just get it done. It is going to feel like we are remodeling all year I am afraid. Stacy is still in Fort Worth during the week and here on the weekends. (He is actually in Huntsville on business right now, but still gone either way.) We look forward to him being home sometime before Christmas, not sure when yet for sure. Abilene is growing on me. I love teaching the 3 year olds at Highland's Young Childrens World. It is fun and gives me and Faith something to look forward to twice a week. Faith also goes to Kinder music. Which is something we would not have done if we were in Fort Worth, so that is great about being in Abilene. She loves it and I love having that time to bond every Sat. It is very fun. Faith has taken 3 steps on her own, so I think she will walk anyday, though she is a quick crawler. She is still into everything and we are working on understanding what "no" means, especially since we have tools and construction stuff everywhere all the time. She also just started talking. Crazy, I think she is still to young, but besides the normal words being mama, dada, nana, and papa; she just added ball and uh oh to her vocab. Uh oh is of course involved in the dreaded game of droping things and wanting me to pick it up every 2 seconds. We are NOT starting that... I hope! I usually just tell her oh well it is gone and for now that works. Well, I guess that is it. I want to thank all of you who had us in your prayers during all the problems that came up with the move. We could still use some of those prayers for Stacy. It is beginning to show for both of us. And I hope to post more now that my computer is up and running!!