House Hunting

Hello again Everyone,

By now you all know that we are house hunting. An

exciting yet scary road for us. I have to go back to

1998 in my life for you to understand.

My husband had worked for Boise Cascade in Medford,

Oregon for almost ten years when on September 7 of

1998 the mill burnt clear to the ground leaving 450 mill

workers with out jobs and an uncertain future. The

picture above is one of the fire. We managed to hold on

to our house for awhile using his 401 k. We lost a lot

of money doing that with all the penalties we had to pay.

In 2001 we could no longer hold on and we lost our house

our car and two good friends (co-workers of my husbands)

to suicide. We were homeless for a while. Not many people

knew that about us.

For years now we have been digging our way out of that

mess. With so many ups and downs that I won't go in to.

I've been praying for some time now that if it were meant

to be that God would lead me down the right path to home

ownership again. My Lord is wonderful and he put people

and information in front of me to finally take the next step.

I found that we qualify for a loan so now just to take all the

right steps to finally get a house that we can really call ours.

I am thankful that my family was strong and we leaned

on God and on each other. All three of our kids made it

through high school. One has made it through college.

What I can say is that we are survivors.

So with all that is happening in our country. Loss of jobs

the prices of everything that is going up. I have sympathy

for all those that are uncertain of the future. Some of our

friends and neighbors might just be going through what we

went through. We may see a smile on their face but inside

they are struggling. Remember take the time to listen.

This was really hard for me to post but I hope it will help

someone out there.

Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered into my

giveaway. you have till noon February 1st to leave a

comment.

Hope everyone is having a great evening.