Meredith....Where are you????

Here I am. My life has been one big giant ball of crazy lately. And most of it is because I made it that way! Most of you know my already hectic schedule, and the fact that we have a dog and I never should have taken two classes this semester while I am still coaching but add to all of that the fact that we got ROBBED last Tuesday and you have a pretty big pot of chaos.

Here is a list of things that I voluntarily put in my life that make it a little crazy:
1. The dog - I love her, I am not getting rid of her...but was it really the best choice for us right now???
2. Grad school - I really am glad that I am going back but somedays it's a lot of work
3. Coaching - I love tennis, I am not sure that I love coaching
4. Playing league tennis - It's fun but just one more thing to do on the weekends
5. Teaching 8th graders - They are fun...I think this one speaks for itself
6. Looking for a new place to live - actually the robbers made me do this one but I guess it still qualifies as voluntary because we could just stay in our crime infested home.

I am sure that this list is not complete but that is all I have for now. As for #7 Ryan and I are trying to be very smart about our decision to move into a new place. I think that we have decided to rent a house for a year so that we can have a little more money in the old savings account before we buy. There is one house that is a definite possibilty that I will post about later this week when I know more information. By the way, I will get to post quite a bite this week because we are benchmarking. ( I hope my administrators don't read this :)

Ryan and I also had the conversation about how God fits into our decision to rent or buy a house. It's not a situation where we can make a bad decision in God's eyes. I don't think that He is really worried about whether we rent or whether we buy. I think He just wants to be included in the decision. Most of the decisions I make on a day to day basis are not ones that require a lot of thought, so I just make them. I think that even if the decision is not one that would affect God or your walk with Him, He still just wants to be included. So I have been trying to do that with our renting situation. I think that when we do make the right choice we will know because we will have a peace about it that will come from our conversations with God.

Robin, Linda and Koby - If you read this, and I know you do :) Ryan and I wanted to apologize for not really getting to hang out much this weekend! We felt really bad because we were just all over the place...can you please forgive us???