So…here we go. The sign goes up in our yard tonight!! So many sweet memories made in this house. Just finished up taking pictures for our realtor!!! This home. We brought home Frank, Isaac and Zeke in. So many sweet memories. But the farm is calling us. Here’s the link to pictures…of a very RARE […]
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Author Archives: admin One phrase I think I have learned to say too well: “Hmmm. Let me think. Gosh. Okay. I think I can make that work.” Can you volunteer here? Hmmmm. Let me think. Gosh. Okay. I think I can make that work. THIS is my only opening–would you like it? (There are varieties of how the […] Ahhh I can’t wait to follow your journey as you take this step! I am in my heart a country girl and just keep dreaming of the day when we can make it happen! I love it!! We too are in the process of finding our little piece of dirt. Even though we are not in the suburbs of Atlanta, we do want a place big enough for the animals. Yes, it’s hard work, but that is the kind of work we were designed for 🙂 Hi! I’ve been a lurker for at least a year. I find your blog wonderfully inspiring. After reading this post, I just had to comment to put a plug in for where we are living–Greenville, SC. We are also from ATL, and I always thought we would go back to the big city, but not anymore! Greenville is the perfect mix of country and city. Traffic is essentially non-existent and the homeschooling community is robust and very active. In fact, I know way more people who homeschool than do public, and we are doing public school 🙂 I could go on and on, but I wanted to throw it out there because a lot of people don’t realize the virtues of this area. You know it’s okay to live in the “country” and not actually do any farming. Just saying. I hope your farm adventure in the country works out perfectly for your family. Oh how I agree with you! This post sounds like the cries of my heart too! How much slower life could be… if we didn’t live so close to 285. Praying for you and your family! I am so excited for you all! And I can’t wait to follow your “farm story”! 🙂 You just need to move north! Cherokee county! Some farm land but close enough to the city. We live here and couldnt imagine living anywhere else!:) new follower btw and a hopeful adoptive momma in the making:)  This is a guest post by my sister, April Carlock, who has supported us through our adoptions and run hard with us through ministry in Zambia Africa with Wiphan Care Ministries. She posted a bit of her experience on Facebook with RATL–and I asked her to please share more here. She’s been my best friend […] Love this post! Thank you for sharing! I volunteer at City of Refuge on Tuesday evenings and it is always good… and I’ve been totally wrecked. Thank you and amen… all we need is Jesus! Ahhh I can’t wait to follow your journey as you take this step! I am in my heart a country girl and just keep dreaming of the day when we can make it happen! First I have to say how important it is for us as moms shepherding our children to be in God’s Word daily. Y’all. I know it’s hard. I’m in a place where it could feel impossible homeschooling 5 kids ages 9 and under. I’m NOT an early riser. And with 5 with different needs–someone always, […] Thanks, Andrea for your encouraging thoughts! This is exactly how we make SURE to do Bible every day. The kids and I read New Testament every morning at breakfast, and John and the kids read Old Testament every evening at bedtime. At breakfast we go around the table and everyone reads some, and at bedtime John reads. Sometimes we talk about it afterwards, or each pick a favorite verse and tell why we like it, and sometimes we just read and move on. Even though we aren’t moving fast, I feel really good that we’re fitting it into our day regularly in this way. Thanks for sharing! Thank you for this! Such good stuff. Great devotions! EXACTLY what I needed to hear today. THANK you for taking the time to write and share this. I LOVE my in front large visable leading God… but oh, how I think I’ve misunderstood the times He’s moved behind me to protect and hedge in. This is so helpful to me to get into my mind and understand. I love you… I love your ministry through writing. It’s helping encourage the socks off this weary mommy! Andrea, I just read this with tears rolling down my cheeks as I thought back to the last few months of my husband’s life and how I wondered and internally screamed so many times, “GOD!!!! WHERE ARE YOU???!!!!” Four years later I know He was there because I felt Him the moment the ICU doctor told me Bob’s heart had stopped. I see all that He has done on my behalf since the. And how much He has and continues to bless me. Never saw that passage like you saw it today and I thank you so much for sharing it. It just blessed my heart. Andrea,  And so I asked again. “What do you want to be when you grow up…” Parker (9): “I wanna be a professional anything. Doesn’t matter what sport.” Isaac (4): “I wanna be a tea-cha. Did you know Maddie at preschool can aw-red-dy read? And I wanna play the vi-wo-wen too.” Frank (5): “I guess I’ll […] |
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beautiful home. I hope you sell quickly and can’t wait to read about your farm life adventure. Keeping a house clean with 5 littles is hard. One trick I did was when I knew I had a showing I would throw in Chocolate chip cookies and back them and we all worked to clean before the timer went off and then fed them cookies in the car. Good luck
Beautiful home. Praying you sell quickly for the price you want and it all goes smoothly.
God bless
My tip is empty laundry baskets. If you get a call for someone to come and see the house without a lot of notice, run around and throw everything out of place in the laundry baskets and put them in the car. voila. I even had to put dirty dishes from the sink in a basket one time. Also, clorox wipes are your friend. A quick once over of the kitchen counters and toilets can go along way. 🙂 I hope it sells quickly. It can be really crazy selling a house with littles but the Lord will see you through. One day at a time.
Congratulations…so exciting Andrea! I join you in praying that your house sells in His perfect timing…and that He leads you to the exact spot He has waiting for your family! We just recently moved “out” like we’ve dreamed about for years. Our pasture is getting fenced in as I type! WOOHOO! Not much longer until we bring those chickens, and dairy goats? or dairy cow? home! We are living our dream – with our 5, going on 6 kiddos – and I’m so thankful and in awe of how He has blessed us!
What a beautiful home! Every image looks like it is from a magazine! How could you ever want to leave it?! 🙂 I am sure you’ll have no problems selling! it’s gorgeous!
After clicking on the link, I got this message from the site, “Sorry, the gallery download limit has been hit.”(?) God’s best to you as you seek to live the country life!
Wishing you a quick sale! Some friends of our who live in Alpharetta sound their house pretty quickly. I know it is so hard eith little ones. Didn’t realize you were so close.