09/24/95 Journal Entry - Finding treasures at a yard sale and setting goals

09/24/95, Sunday

Well supposedly this week we get our house. Monday or Tuesday. I am excited and nervous. There are so many things we'll need to get and do. I am worried about the neighbors and AJ needs friends.

I feel very blessed and think the Lord is really taking care of our needs and wants. It has been a huge struggle to pay tithing but I feel so blessed since we have. It seems like I find exactly the things I need on sale or at a yard sale and that somehow things work out. Just in the last month all of the things I wanted to get AJ for his birthday I found at a yard sale for under $10! A bike, chutes and ladders and a helicopter toy. I found Dallas a car seat - the exact one I wanted. I was talking to Laura and saying I didn't have any winder clothes for AJ and the neighbor boy knocked on the door and gave us a big pile, all the right size. It has been one blessing after another.

And now the house has finally started working out too.

I want to be the best mommy I can be for my boys. I really love them. I ned to start having FHE each week now that AJ's four and can understand.

I also need to continue practicing piano. I feel truly blessed that I have been that I have been able to play and I don't want to lose my talent.

I will miss the ward and Michelle Schnabel, Kathryn Parry and Janice Oviatt. They have made my Sunday's something to look forward to. I hope I can feel apart of our new ward in a hurry. That's important to me.

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