Dreams for a New Life and more

9:07 PM - My dreams for a new life
Current mood: ecstatic
Category: Life

I am so excited and scared. I have hated where I live for as long as I can remember. Ever since my first visit to Florida I have yearned to live near the ocean and in a year round warm climate. I detest snow and cold. In the winter time I get really depressed. I close up. Get mentally tired and don't want to do anything.

When I was pregnant with Levi we were planning on moving to Florida. However, when he was diagnosed with cancer, those plans obviously went down the drain. Now he is 2 and a half years old and has been cancer free for almost as long. :)

I also have recently been experiencing some very strong pain. I have been to the ER and have had follow up tests and scans done. Nothing is "wrong" with me. I had all signs of gallbladder disease. Of course, all this happened within 7 days of us leaving for our vacation in Costa Rica.

Let me back up a bit. My dh has been off of work due to injury since May. Our income has fallen way down and it's been extremely stressful. Especially once cold weather hit. However, we were able to go to CR because we are apart of a "vacation club". Every year we can go somewhere for one week for free. All we have to pay for is travel (airline) and misc. Thankfully we had been planning this trip for over a year and had already paid for the airline tickets. So we just saved what we could, which wasn't much, and went. We needed it.

Ok so I get the go ahead to go on the trip from my doctor. Amazingly enough I had NO STRESS and NO PAIN! Also, bonus....no allergies and no lung congestion. HMMMM. Me thinks Costa Rica agrees with me.

So now we are doing what we can to get our butts to CR permanently. Of course, this will take some time. Dh will be back to work at the end of January. We did some reconfiguring of our bills and such and will be paying off a good portion of debt soon. Hopefully our rental will get sold, the other one Jason will finally be able to continue working on it (you know in his free time) and get it sold. We plan on selling our farmhouse we live in (sniffling, I love my farmhouse) and move into our rental if it doesn't sell. It's alot smaller but alot cheaper. Besides Tico houses are small and, well, we americans tend to like "stuff" and we have too much stuff. So we'll be selling most of our belongings anyway.

So, our hopes are the children and I will be living in CR by next fall. We will stay the summers here either in our rental house or just camping (which we love) and we'll winter in CR. DH will continue working his butt off, saving money, making money and eventually he'll be able to move down there full time too. It will be hard to be away from him for so many months at a time.But if it's what we must do then it's what we must do. We have to get out of here.

Another reason I want out of here so much is CR is very family oriented. Children are very important. Happiness is important. Money isn't. Well, it is, but it isn't more important than family. That is one thing I'm really despising about America. We put so much importance into how much someone makes, how big there house is, how many toys they have, how expensive their shoes are, what they drive, so on and so forth. I hate it. I want to live where 12 y/o's don't base their self worth on 70 dollar shoes and $100 coats. Don't forget the status of having their own cell phone. I mean, seriously what does that teach children when they insist on having expensive shoes and we buy them for them??

Anyway, enough of that. My loving, adoring husband brought me home roses today. Big smile. Now I'm not a flowers or jewelry type gal so when he does surprise me like that it makes it that more special.

I can't wait to get to CR. So much to do and learn beforehand. I'm ready, willing and almost able!!




4:16 PM - My prayers have all been answered
Current mood: grateful
Category: Religion and Philosophy

I asked for strength and
God gave me difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for wisdom and
God gave me problems to solve.

I asked for prosperity and
God gave me brawn and brains to work.

I asked for courage and
God gave me dangers to overcome.

I asked for patience and
God placed me in situations where I was forced to wait.

I asked for love and
God gave me troubled people to help.

I asked for favors and
God gave me opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed.

My prayers have all been answered.