Whirlwind Tour...

Welp, our world has been on a Whirlwind Tour since the summer, but especially the past two weeks...
Here's the skinny from my (Johnny) perspective:
Tuesday, January 4 - we sold our home in Killeen
Thursday, January 6 - Finley Claire was born
Friday, January 7 - Mother in laws car breaks down in the exit driveway at the hospital and I take care of all of that with a wrecker and mechanic
Saturday, January 8 - Finally get to go home from the hospital which is sweet!
Monday - First appointment at Pediatrician (whom we love by the way! He reminds us of Patch Adams...) and Taylor picks up a 'bug' at the office.
Jason and Hallie Wallace bring us dinner!
Monday at 6 p.m. - The Mayhem begins. Taylor starts throwing up and more and this 'bug' is OWNING HER. She also has a 100.6 degree temperature and her milk is 'coming in' ... which no one warned us what that even looks like or even FEELS like! I'm on the phone with the Baby Hotline wondering what in the h*ll is happening to my wife! We barely make it through the night and everyone is still alive on Tuesday.
Tuesday - Tay is recovering from the 'bug' and I am being Mr. Mom.
Tuesday - 4 p.m. - The 'bug' GETS UP IN ME! That thing OWNS ME as well. I tell you what, it is a humble posture when one is hunkered down over a turdlet just letting one's body convulse to get the foreign object out of there! Every time that I would 'hurl', I would say out loud... 'Jesus, please let this pass quickly!'
Tuesday - 5 p.m. - The Title Company shows up at our current living place to close on our Tyler Home and we CLOSE on a home in TYLER! So exciting. They leave and I head right back into the bathroom to talk to Jesus some more.
Friday - Taylor's family is back in town and I go to our new house to begin work. I clean for 3 hours that night.
Saturday - Taylor's mom and I paint and work around new house from 8:30 - 5:30.
Sunday - Back at new house working all day.
Monday - My father arrives and we work all day. I drop waaaaaaay toooo much cash at Lowe's on home repairs.
Today - Same thing at house and same thing at Lowe's. The popcorn removal guys and the carpet cleaning guys came to the house and began work.

Somewhere in there the Smith's brought us dinner as did the Heaton's and Rogers'. Tomorrow the Osteen's are bringing us a 'surprise dinner!' We are sooooo thankful for our awesome friends and their great support...

Friday - our Furniture will arrive!!! Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
A guy will also be installing window blinds (he is known as The Blind Man as had a dude with a 'walking stick' on the side of his van... pretty funny. I chuckled when I saw it.) this day.
This is the same day as Finley's 2 week baby appointment. Not gonna lie, I'm a lil' gun shy of gettin' another 'bug' from that office!

Oh Yeah, I am also taking a Seminary Class with homework do every Sunday. Had to read 150 pages last week and write a 2 page reflection as well as answer some questions at the end of a chapter. Gotta do the same thing this week. Homework due on Sunday...

We also start up Young Life on Monday and then we are off and out of the gate for another few months of fantastic incarnational ministry with our high school friends...
Thank You Jesus for allowing us to do what we do!

We are blessed to have a place in Tyler, Texas, to call our Own in which to lay our heads...