1 + 1 = 3

Yes, I am bad at math, but hang in there for a a few … I’ve got a few updates to catch up on since my last entry.

So in my last two posts I discussed some leaps and bounds in my life I had not thought previously possible … nameling going back to school after a long time as well as moving out of a long stint in a role I was not happy in.

Let’s fast-forward to today.

It has been a year already I’ve been in IT at my job (wow!). I am officially 3/4 done with my Bachelor’s (double wow!!). Mid this year, Danielle and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary (triple wow!!!).

Yes, Covid/Corona is still a thing … I think they got tired of going letter-by-letter and skipped Epsilon through Xi (Greek alphabet) and went straight to Omicron. On top of this horrible pandemic, it’s still bad all-round … there’s still cultural, racial, political, and general divides tearing our country apart.

In the recent post I mentioned we were moving into apartment life, which we were very blessed and thankful we did not have to move into an actual apartment rather our cousins who we stayed with briefly when we moved to Arizona many years ago let us stay with them for a period of time. Part of that was while we were hopeful to still build our custom dream home, but that did not come to fruition. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Sure, that is more often used as a tongue-in-cheek negative connotation but in earnest, God was looking out for us as we were able to find and purchase our dream home and move in right around the beginning of October. Here is a photo of the front.

We’ve been slowly moving in because unlike our last houses where we took ages to paint and do flooring on our own, the first couple of weeks we went official and had professionals paint and do flooring. It’s been so nice having that work done and not have to do it ourselves (haha).

It’s been a slow road getting things tidied up for a couple reasons. First, I somehow out-of-the-blue contracted Bell’s Palsy and had that for a couple weeks. Praise God it has gone away, but I was struggling there for a hot minute. Second, and most exciting news is that Danielle and I are expected a baby next June!!!!! Here is our official Christmas card with the secret news tucked in the corner 🙂

We’re super excited and nervous, but definitely blessed!

Until next time,

Andrew