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I feel like I have been in The Waiting Place for a very long time. I believe all this stuff has some sort of meaning. All this waiting, all this limbo, all the uncertainty. I do my best not to complain.

At the church that Joel and I used to attend, we led a small home group for young adults. More than half the people in that group (including Joel) were looking, with some degree of unsuccess, for a job.

One night, the small group coordinators visited our group and one of them said he felt like we were all in a waiting room. There was something on the other side of the door and eventually it would open for each one of us. It was so comforting and so … not.

Because, who really likes waiting? It’s not easy, it’s not fun … but from what I hear, it’s usually pretty worth it.

Since this man visited our house, Joel has gotten his job (and so have most of the others who used to be in the group), but (for us) that hasn’t been the magical answer. We are still waiting. He now lives in one place and I live in the other. We mainly see each other on weekends and holidays. We are waiting.

Waiting for our house to sell, waiting for the mail to come, or the rain to go, or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow … just waiting.

In the meantime, I am working on trying to wrap my head around a few things. I have become less dependable. In some instances I’ll say I will do something and I completely forget. Something about being a full-time worker to a full-time mom has made me very disorganized.

On the upside, I am definitely wayyyy less stressed than I was as a full-time worker! The next goal is to be a less-stressed and more-organized person.

Also, while in this waiting place and hopefully once out of it, I would like to be more intentional about things. I guess you could call it a New Year’s Resolution. I want my actions to have more thought and more love behind them. I want to care more about the world around me as opposed to my own little world that I so often do not see beyond. I want to stop using The Waiting Place as an excuse to do less, help less, be less.

I also want to be more present on this blog, which is why I am working on converting it into a blogspot blog (www.cominguprosemary.blogspot.com). It’s just a lot more user-friendly for a novice like me. And the spam I get from this website is so overwhelming. I am going to transfer some posts that I want to remember from this blog over there, and once I’m ready to start putting original posts up, I’ll make a little announcement over here.

It’s still going to be a crafty blog, but I’m hoping it will be more personal than this one is.

xoxo

Rhonna Farrer is giving away 209 digital kits in honor of 2009. I love Rhonna Farrer’s designs, in fact this blog was designed from one of her kits!

Oooooh, I hope I win!

I’m really thinking about switching over from my own domain to blogspot. Anybody have any reasons why I shouldn’t? I know I have more freedom on this website, but that does me no good because I have no idea what I’m doing! Blogspot seems more friendly to people like me. Not to mention that they help you with the spam. The amount of spam that I get is outrageous, disgusting, and overwhelming. It’s a big reason why I so rarely post here. I just get frustrated every time I log in or check my email.

Of course this print drew me into her booth. Isn’t it phenomenal? At some point in my life I hope to have this print in a reading nook, a library, or just by a bookshelf. If I ever become an English teacher again, you can bet this print will be in my classroom.

 I snagged a business card, and headed over to the Studio Mela Etsy shop and, yes, it is now in my favorites. Many of the prints have a Black Apple feel. But they are different enough. And I love them.

Here’s another for your viewing pleasure.

On December 5, I went to theNo Coast ‘08 Craft-O-Rama and I was so glad I did. I am inspired by the young, hip crafting community. I purchased a hat that I am totally in love with from Sassy Knitwear. Unfortunately they are not selling the hat on the internet, so I’ll have to take a picture later. They also make incredible adult and baby clothes, and are based right out of Minneapolis.

Christmas dinner this year is going to be hosted at our house, so it was only fitting that I purchased a green and red table runner made out of recycled milk cartons fromBanner Creations

I would have gladly purchased many, many, many things if I wasn’t trying so darn hard to be smart about my spending. I did take many, many, many business cards while I was there and over the next week or so, I’m going to share with you a little of what I saw. Let’s call it a mini-cyber-no-coast.

wouldn’t you?

(For clarification, I mean the outfit … not the girl. I mean the girl is really cute, but I’ll let her mom keep her.)

I asked my husband to take some nice, artsy pictures of my stockings. He’s very good at those nice, artsy pictures … much better than me. However, our nice camera was mistakenly left at a family members home this past thanksgiving. Thus, my impatience has me posting pictures taken with a camera phone.

A few years ago I made some stockings for our family, and last year I posted pictures of them here. I have never really liked my stocking, so I asked myself why I was just living with it and I made myself a new one.

Then my fast fingers got to work, and I made a couple gifts.

This Christmas is about three things:

1. Spending very little money

2. Heartfelt homemade gifts

3. Purchasing things we need and giving them to one another as gifts

Well, a Honda ac compressor doesn’t exactly fit the 2nd qualification, but two out of three isn’t bad. The air conditioning in Joel’s car has been broken for quite awhile, and while it’s not exactly the kind of thing he’s thinking about in the winter, come summer he will be thinking about it again … and come summer it will be a lot more expensive to fix.

We’ve chosen not to fix the air conditioning compressor because the part is so stinkin’ expensive, but I’ve been looking around dicount ac parts and I am thinking I have finally found a gift that my husband might actually want. And then, when he’s not sweltering in the hot summer heat, he’ll think of Christmas and be glad.

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