WHAT A MONTH!!
1. Family
So the reason I haven't been blogging recently is because I've been super busy. First was planning Steph's bachelorette and Jack & Jill. I had an awesome time at both thanks to everyone that was there and I was pretty surprised how well things flowed - good times with good friends. Next, Clark, Tracy and little Natalie came back home for a visit from HK. It was nice to spend so much time together with my bro & sis (-in-laws) and my little niece always manages to put a smile on everyone's face. I'm amazed at how quickly she's growing and how she's no longer a lump but a mini person with her own opinions. I learnt a major lesson about earrings during their visit - it makes a huge difference! Natalie used to look like her father but after she got her ears pierced, she looks like a little princess instead. I will now add earrings (in addition to make-up) as a magical makeover.
Alex's graduation was last weekend. My parents were able to come back from Beijing for it as well which was great. We haven't had both sides of the family all together since our wedding. It made the weekend filled with laughter since all 5 couples stayed up late playing card games. It's pretty cool that our family can get along like that. Alex and I were reflecting on the fact that our familys are very different and if God wasn't their common factor, they actually may have a hard time getting along. His family's very fun-loving: the more noise, people and excitement the better. My family's prefers order, quiet and more intimate conversations. It's really funny cuz several times being with my parents I realized where all my habits and things that I thought were "distinctly me" came from them.
2. God is at work.
There is no such thing as a coincidence...at least, I don't believe it. God has been amazing in showing me His plans lately, especially through our house-hunting process. As I had previously mentioned my aunt was my agent. However, now that I'm settling back to Waterloo, we felt bad that she would to to travel back and forth on our whim so we were going to go with someone more local. The very next day, we saw our dream home at an open house only for private sale (ie. no agent). That's God being at work #1.
When I originally started house-hunting, I had very specific requirements (eg. not within a knuckle joint from hydro line on this paper map that I have). Alex makes fun of me all the time because to him it's random. Trust me, the distance between my 2 finger joints is about 1 km on the map. Any way, this particular neighbourhood only had one little section that wasn't touching my finger joint - and how crazy is it that this house happens to be in that area!!
The awesome thing was that both my parents, Alex's parents, Alex's brother & wife were ALL there for this open house AND ALL agreed that it was great. That's God being at work #2 & #3. Now we know why the offer we placed on the first house didn't go through because this was even better than that one! God at work #4. We placed an offer 2 hours later and the sellers accepted it (more on this later). God at work #5. We find out this week that we beat a ton of ppl - they have already received 5 other offers after us. God at work #6.
God is amazing...I know that He's always at work but sometimes, you never see the reason or the results of it. It makes it all the more exciting when you can...this was a great reminder for me of how He brought Alex and I together as well.
More details and pics later =D
