Hello and Good Evening!
It has been quite the eventful time in my life over the last few weeks. Our previous landlords required that we move out by the end of November, we had all of the money we did have in savings being used to pay off debt so that we could get a mortgage come spring, we didn't have another place to live, and I was in the hiring process for an office assistant position with a local pediatrics office.
On top of that, I was working on examining my eating lifestyle and receiving two of my three children's food allergy reports back (one of them has more food allergies than me!), and trying to get nearly 6 years worth of things packed up and ready to go. During all of this, I was dealing with extremely volatile landlords, who also happened to be our next door neighbor, and were destroying our personal property.
I had to remind myself on more than enough occasions that I needed to bite my tongue and that God would have revenge on them for me, so no matter what mean thing I could possibly think of to say or do to them, He could do it even better and save me from behaving in a non-elegant manner.
So, here we are, many weeks later, moved into our new rent-to-own house, having just completed my first day of work, and while physically exhausted, still have some more unpacking to do, in addition to the regular daily household chores to do.
It's a daily battle to go from not being elegant, to wanting to be dignified and with poise. I can understand slipping up every so often, but what's important is to realize the slip up and apologize for it immediately and sincerely.
So, that has been what I've been working on doing to start. To try to begin acting elegantly all at once seems quite daunting, and so, with everything else, if you start huge, one tends to become overwhelmed too quickly and easily, thus inevitably setting themselves up for failure. My task is one that I intend to live up to rather than to chalk up under the "tried and failed without looking back" category.
Yes, I will take baby steps if that's what I have to do...and then I will graduate to a toddler, and then pre-schooler, and so on, and so forth. It is the only way, aside from deep faith in God and His provision for His children, that I will be able to succeed.
I will try to keep posting at least once every couple of weeks until I really get into the new swing of things. Until then,
Have a Blessed Life!
Jennifer
