Starving!

My sister has been giving me a hard time lately because she thinks I'm getting skinnier each time she sees me.  I think it's mainly that she has a growing belly (being pregnant and all).  Also I think a large part of it is that I never get to eat as much as I would like.  I'm so hungry lately and Micah seems to be taking more and more of my food.  I know what you're thinking, that I should feed him first and then I can eat.  Well if you've ever met Justin and I, you know that in our younger days we never really were full.  We could eat 6 times a day and still have a snack before bed.  Well now we've created a mini version of ourselves.  Double the metabolism speed I swear.  Anyway all I want these days is to sit down at a nice restaurant, look slowly over the menu while I sip something sweet and fruity, maybe nibble on some appetizers or bread and then eat an entire bowl of pasta and find some corner of my belly for dessert.  I miss that...

After months of waiting and cleaning...

What a crazy day, I thought I would be bored today with no plans, no shopping, no nothing.  I had resigned myself to doing laundry but I never got a chance.  Something else happened.  We sold our house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  FINALLY!  Man who knew it would take so long.  A big thank you to my parents and to our friends Eric and Megan for hording our things for us since we were too cheap to get a storage unit.  Just one more month and it will be gone.  God is amazing.  Everyone told us that He was biding His time waiting for the perfect opportunity.  Did He ever.  A week and a half ago we found the house of our dreams!  Then this week we sold our house!  Only God could put that together.  Just keep praying that the house we want takes our offer.  Justin just filled out the paperwork today.

I can't wait for everyone to see this house, it's incredible.  I have so many ideas constantly running through my head of what I want to do with it!  I have a feeling I'll have to wait and do one big thing a year instead of doing it all at once like we did with this house but that's ok.  We can stay in this house for years!  Anyway just wanted to share my joy with everyone.

Numbers 19, The water of cleansing

I randomly came across this chapter in Numbers today and decided to actually look a little further into it.  I'd love any other comments.  In order to make sense of my post though you'll have to read the chapter.  http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+19&version=NIV

After reading it I wanted to know if God used the ashes to actually cleanse the Israelites.  I still can't quite put it together in my head but this is what I came up with.  In Chapter 17:13 the people complain that they can't go near the tabernacle, this is God's way of making them clean enough to come as close as they need too.  It doesn't actually cleanse them, it's seems to be more of a ceremony.  This is what I'd love more knowledge about.  My commentary doesn't explain this in language I understand.

This passage also has a deeper meaning which I found in Hebrews.  One example is chapter 9:13-14, "...the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.  How much more, then, will the blood of Christ...cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death..."  I wonder if God put this in the Bible just so that His people could use it as an example later on.  Probably, God does everything on purpose. 

If they weren't cleansed this way after touching or being near a dead body then they were cut off.  If we had not been cleansed by Christ's blood than we would be cut off...

Let's try this again

As some of you may remember I used to have a blog but then I ran out of time. I put sleeping, nursing, and eating before my blogging. I'm back I now only eat and sleeping doesn't seem to be as urgent as it did a year ago. So here I am. I am the wife of Justin and the mom of baby Micah. We are super close to selling our first home and buying our second. This blog won't be just about Micah, as adorable and funny as it would probably be I'm just not that kind of person. I'm pretty self involved so I will probably mostly write about what I think is going on in my little world. Feel free to comment, critique, laugh, but no mocking please. I'm pretty sensitive...