So, I guess its about time for an update, if anybody reads this thing anymore. Man, I really need to get a new user pic. Well, hopefully in about 2 months I will be able to communicate electronically again, and I can get back in the loop.

So . . . we are moving to Charlottesville, VA! We were trying to decide between the U of Louisville and UVA for Andrew's med. school. We were pretty much decided on U of L, since he had a full scholarship to go there. But, he has always wanted to go to UVA (he almost went there for undergrad), and really was secretly wanting to go there. I was sure I wanted to go to Louisville, especially since it looked like we were going to be able to buy a house for under $60,000. We went on trips to visit both schools about a month ago, praying ahead of time that God would make it clear to us where He wanted us. The first trip was to VA. I LOVED absolutely everything about Charlottesville. At this point, I think if I could live anywhere in the country, it would be there. It is stunningly beautiful, one of the best towns to raise kids in in the country, and close to so many cool things, including D.C. And Andrew was fully convinced by the end of the weekend that UVA was the place for him. So, then we were on to Louisville. Louisville is a cool city, but, first of all, it is a city and I am not a city girl. The houses we were looking at were in a really, really bad neighborhood. We do live in a pretty bad neighborhood now (we have been hearing a lot of gunfire lately, sometimes right behind our house), but Weldon is "country bad" and this neighborhood in Louisville is "city bad."

Anyway, by the end of the two trips, we knew where we wanted to go, and just our being in such perfect agreement was enough to tell us where God wanted us. But the money issue was still a big one. So, we prayed in faith (some times wavering, of course) that God would provide for where He wanted us. We wrote a letter to the dean at UVA explaining our situation and . . . they (or rather God) gave us a full scholarship! He is so good to us. It is so true that He restores the years that the locusts have eaten.

Meanwhile, I can't wait to get out of here. It is so wet and nasty here (but not warm enough to turn on the air - not that a window unit helps much) that there were MUSHROOMS growing on our kitchen sink this morning. It is not as humid as Miami, where you feel like you are walking in a bowl of hot soup, but at least in Miami everything has central air. Central air makes all the difference!

Let the house hunting begin!