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The past 2 Sundays we dropped Garrett off with his grandparents (wife’s parents) while Andrea and I tend to the many smallish things around our house that we’ve had ear-marked for at least a year. Stuff like painting chips in paint on doors, cleaning doors and baseboards, washing down kitchen and bath cabinets – all the stuff that is routinely neglected in my weekly house cleaning routine. I take mental note of it, but never remember or have extra time.

But we’ve been intentional about getting it done so that in the event that we put our house up for sale, we can have all that stuff taken care of. If nothing happens, we at least have a cleaner house.

I am at a weird place with regard to our house. For over a year I have wanted to move out of Wyoming. Nice place, but it’s not my people. Even shortly after we moved to Wyoming, if I were to go for a drive to clear my head, I’d end up in Anderson or Mt. Washington. So my will, my heart is set on living in Anderson. I want to live near the people I church with. I want to be intentional about that because I think the ho-hum of life with each other could be enriching to everyone, and further the Kingdom.

But that’s blatantly what I want. Is it what God wants? Not sure. We’ve seen some things recently that could be interpreted as signs, but nothing has screamed out to me. Then again, God is not to be known by one’s emotional response or warm fuzzies. He’s not a tame lion. Add to that the fact that of the houses we’ve looked at, none have really spoken to me/us. When we toured the house I am writing from I knew it was “it” from the pics online. So we’ll be patient.

It sounds arrogant to say this in the housing market of 2008, but I’m confident that our house would sell very fast. We drove by a house 8 days ago in Anderson that we thought was a contender. It had the same kind of tone to ours. Today it is listed as “pending” on the MLS. Same with a few other homes I’ve noted on the MLS – there’s this small margin of homes that continue to move, and we live in one of them. So I don’t want to sell if we don’t have 1-2 places lined up. Then again, that’ my will talking.

So I read a few days ago that Alanis Maorissette is coming to Cincy in early October. I have a very cushy place in my love for music for what she does. She could sing the phone book and I’d buy or listen to it. I think she’s one of those musicians that people either love or hate. She has baggage, which is one reason I like her. A lot. As I write I am listening to her. I simply selected “All” on my iPod after accessing her name. Ahhhh…. to write and work with Alanis as my muse. Not sure if I’ll be able to swing tix for her visit to the Queen City, but just knowing she is in the area will make me a happy man for that day.

Garrett is mobile. He began crawling (for real) late last week. When I got back from a morning meeting today he was in the nursery on the floor playing with Andrea. I saw him and he started his happy cries. I lay down on the floor in the living room, and cheered him on as he made the 3 room commute, crawling like a little bug. And to me that’s what he looks like crawling around – a little bug. Ok. That makes me want to go see him. Time to wrap this up.