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Well, with our house-hunt move, I think we've come to a stalemate. We really did not want to do 100% financing, because then the interest would be higher, and also we'd had to get mortgage insurance - meaning more $$$ per month. However, with an FHA loan I learned that you have to have the down payment (at least 3%) before being able to move forward with the loan process. I guess we just have to keep to keep praying to see if this is the direction we are supposed to be going.

Our apartment situation has been rough this month. With the soaring gas prices (I paid $4.45 the last time I fueled up), people around our apartment complex have been stealing gas out of the cars that park outside. Luckily, no one has taken ours, but it really just does not make us feel safe. It seems every other month, we are getting notices about people's apartments being broken into and people being robbed while walking back. It's scary stuff!!! I'm especially paranoid when I'm home along with Natty - not good!

However, I have been trying to be better about being in God's word. There's this nifty application on Facebook that is like a tracker of how much of the Bible you've read. At first I thought it was silly, but it kinda motivates me to see the percentage go up each time I finish day's reading. Sometimes I get so into it, I'll read an extra day. From doing that though, it's kept me in God's word on a fairly consistent basis. I recently finished the whole book of Job (always started it but never read it all the way through until now), and I am encouraged. I know God's always going to provide what Tim and I need to take care of Natty, and that He is going to protect us. I have realized thought that once I do take my eyes off Him and am not in God's work, I do tend to focus on simply my own strength, and then am reminded of how weak I am.

Even though we are kinda in a stalemate with our house hunt, sometime will turn up...eventually. Maybe it's not a good time to move now. All I know is that God sees the big picture, while I really have no clue what's in front of me.

Hoping everyone is staying cool here in CA.