Another One About the Well... and extra stuff too.

We received the bill for the well this morning. I have to admit I was a bundle of nerves opening it up... half of me didn't want to know & half of me just wanted it over with. Praise the Lord it didn't go over $4000!!! It was still more than *I* wanted it to be at the beginning, but it was only $10 more than I figured it out once the man who drilled the well gave me the figures. And thanks to Dave Ramsey's program and the Lord's leading we can actually pay cash for it. It will completely wipe us out... but we can pay it. Yay!

Other Random Topics:

• My basil is so sad looking. I can't figure out what to do with it... so I moved it into full sun in hopes that will help. I read up on it a bit more last night and found it likes well drained soil... I don't think the box it's in has well drained soil, so I need to figure out what to do about that.
• We got all summery yesterday and set up the kiddie pool. The kids had a blast in it and I actually took a few minutes to relax and read while they were playing in it.
• I'm reading Clara's War right now. It's the true story of a young girl/teen who survived the German Occupation in Poland. I'm only in chapter 3 and I have to admit I'm highly disturbed by the evil that is present in the Russians and the Nazis. It's hard for me to believe that anyone can be as evil as they were ... and sad to think that this was only 70 or so years ago. I know people say that the wars today are just as bad... and they probably are, but the seeming disregard for human life to the point that is described in this book it horrific. I cannot even bring myself to type them.... yet people lived through this. It's no wonder that the men who fought over there and the people who lived through it rarely talked about it. It'd be easier to just try to put it from your mind, yet I don't think they ever could.

The "slept through the night" one!

Alyssa slept through the night last night. I'm pretty sure it was a fluke, though. We were at my Moms until very late and she was so exhausted. She slept from about 10:30 until around 5 am! That's 7.5 hrs and the very first time she's done that. Needless to say I was shocked. I woke up around 2:30... her usual waking time... and then dozed off until 3:15. And then I was worried... I worried that she was ok (cause she was verrry fussy going down which isn't like her either) So I tossed and turned and worried... then scrouged around for the monitor and listened to her breathing and realized she was just fine. LOL! Funny how we mamas can't wait for them to sleep through and then spend all that time worrying when they do!

In other news:

• The well is complete and most of the mess cleaned up. Yay!
• Matt was offered an evening job by one place and a weekend job by another and decided to take both on top of his current job. They are only temporary, but will help rebuild our 'emergency fund' that the well just wiped out. *sigh* I'm going to be "single mom" for a while... but I feel worse for Matt because that's a whole lot of working for one guy.
• No one has come to see the house yet. I'm a little torn on that... part of me is relieved and part of me is disappointed, but all of me is trusting God that it's in HIS timing.

The One With the Picture...

Here's me... digging a hole for my husband. He just HAD to take a picture. LOL!! (It was to attach the new well to the house, btw... not to put him in! lol!! ) In the end it was between 5'6" and 6' deep (it went downhill) as wide as you see there and about 6' long :) Needless to say I am SORE today...

The One About a Well

Wow... so... no bites on the house yet. HA ha! Actually we have found that we apparently have no rights to the well. Or at least no deeded rights. This is insane, really. We were told one thing and now find out we were flat out lied to when we bought this house. Thanks Michele Tahy and Whitbeck Associates. Blech!

We got an estimate and will be putting a well in next week. Craziness... but it'll be good...

Just waiting on God's timing in all this and doing what we need to do to make it happen. :) That peace that surpasses all understanding is pretty amazing stuff. ;)