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So, I thought I would be like everyone else and write about the Passion…

…Or wait…I haven’t seen it yet. From everything I’ve heard it’s a great movie, but our team went to see it at 9:50 last night. I start to get pretty sleepy around 10:30 or 11…so I thought I had better wait to see it at some time when I am sure to be awake for the whole movie. So, hopefully I will be heading to the theater sometime in this next week to see it.

Overall my spare mental energy has been consumed by thoughts of houses and health insurance lately. Tony and I have been in the process of considering whether or not to buy a house sometime in the next several months…and I’ve also been looking for health insurance to replace GCM’s insurance once I drop down to part time staff.

We’ve now looked at around a dozen houses, and spent hours pouring over newspaper ads, financing spreadsheets, and websites listing various information about houses for sale. We’ve gotten to the point of deciding we definitely want to buy some kind of house…but I have a feeling we still have a lot of work ahead of us to find just the right house, and get all the details to fall into place.

Buying a house is a real learning experience. For instance — I had no idea that you could get so much money back on your taxes by having mortgage interest to deduct! And I can’t say I have ever spent so much time before staring a pipes, wiring, furnaces, basement walls and more as we try and determine the potential problems each house may or may not have.

But, at least it’s an adventure. You never know what you might see when you walk into a house…like one place we walked into that was selling for a very cheap price…and had mold and mildew growing all over every wall and ceiling.

Keep praying that God will lead us to the right house in the right location at the right price!