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I sold my Jeep today! Yay me. It was my first car. Needless to say, we don't fit into it anymore. It was with me through life in Spokane and Alberta and Utah and Idaho again. I feel like I should be bummed to say goodbye but at the moment I am more just relieved to have one less vehicle and a bit more cash.

I'm reading the new Lysa TerKeurst book called Unglued. I really like it. I especially like how I spent a lot of time resting and reading it yesterday and then came totally unglued (not a positive term, in case you're unsure) at dinner anyway (over nothing) because I am just totally stressed out right now. There is way too much going on for me to handle.

Ezekiel is army crawling now. It's fantastic. And also not so fantastic because as I mentioned before, he really loves to put things in his mouth. Today I found him with a lighter in his mouth. A LIGHTER, people. I don't even know where that came from. Talk about needing to childproof! This is a bit of a stretch for me after having two other kids who never put things in their mouths. Remember this? I let Abraham play with beans when he was an infant. But not this boy! I'm pulling things out of Ezekiel's mouth every thirty seconds.

We're still trying to move to Spokane. It's not easy. Mostly because Keith is working and going to school and we live two hours away from where we're trying to move to and we have three children and so I can't be the one to go looking for places (we tried that once, it flopped) and also it is just super hard to find an affordable place. So we've given up on affordable and now we're just looking for something not-break-the-bank-able. Want to share my pain? Read on.

It has to have sunshine in the windows or I will get depressed. And I'm pretty sure that an apartment is not going to work out with small children who like to cry and run and yell and sing and dance... I don't think saying "SSSSHHHH!!" to them every five minutes is going to make for a happy home life. It has to have a fenced backyard, absolutely has to. It also can't be in a busy area because our kids have only ever known life in a really rural area and, well, busy streets are just a bad idea. Also can't be high crime, obviously. I have this great crime map that I check addresses against and it's really helpful. Also sometimes really disappointing when I think I've found something great.

So as soon as I find something I like... like this one... it's snatched up by all the other people looking for the same things I'm looking for. Ah, the joy of house-searching. I have a few decent places lined up to look at this week, though, so I am getting hopeful about maybe being able to move in the next few weeks. Stay tuned.