The highlight of the year ... welcoming our first grandchild into the world. Nathanael Israel Wuenschel joined our family on July 9th and our lives will never be the same!!
Ok, here's the question that is consuming most of my time lately. To where does God want us to move? This is what we know for sure -- unless my business picks up soon, we will have to sell our house and move some place where it will be cheaper to live. The dilemma, of course, is that we don't want to be so far away from our kids that we never get to see them. The "kids", however, have not made the decision easy. With David and Mary in Arizona and Kim, Jacob and Nathanael in South Carolina, how do we find a place that is close to all of them? And there is the added issue of where God will lead Jacob and Kim to a new job and possible new place to live. There was NOTHING about any of this in the parenting books I read while raising our family :-(
Here is the other thing I know for sure. I am eating my way through this dilemma and that is not good .... not good at all. 2009 begins in a little more than 24 hours. I have a list of things that I want to accomplish in the new year and losing weight is close to the top. So, please pray with me that God will soon reveal to us the path He has planned and that He will give us the wisdom to see it.
I have been blessed to be married to my husband, John, for 32 years. We have three great children ... Kimberly (who is married and lives in Spartanburg, SC), David (who is single and lives in Mesa, AZ) and Mary (single, also living in Mesa ... but moved there before her brother did). My newest description of myself is "Gramma." My daughter, Kim, and her wonderful husband, Jacob, have blessed us with the most perfect gift (next to Jesus) in the form of an adorable grandson - Nathanael Israel. Holding him is better than any other feeling in the world. He melts my heart. I've told everyone that the only other parents who had a more perfect child are Mary & Joseph!
I love spending time with my girlfriends. Helen, Stacey, Linda, Shelia, Pam, Laura and others add so much joy and fun to my life. I can't imagine what this journey would be like without them beside me.
Our house would not be a home without our pets, Zoe (our Golden Retriever), Pepper, Gus and Jayden (our cats).
I have run my own abstracting business for 23 years. It has been one of God's blessings that has allowed me to support our family.