Miracle of Miracles, Wonder of Wonders!

This may just make up for the {mostly} crummy year that 2010 has been:

Our New House closed escrow today (Tuesday)!

Thank you, GOD!

I awoke this morning with the phrase 'Something FABULOUS is going to happen today!' on my mind. I got up, tiptoed into the kitchen, started the coffee, and went to the window to look out at the beach. Then I said in a voice just barely above a whisper, 'Something FABULOUS is going to happen today!'. Bob was still sleeping just a few feet away {remember, this is a TINY beach cottage!} and I didn't want to wake him. I never actually told him about my 'declaration of Fabulousness'.

Within a few hours, we'd received a phone message from our Realtor telling us that the deal was on an 'any day now' status {no more extensions!}, plus a call from one of our biggest shows offering us a more prominent booth location, AND some good news from our son in Texas. I was pretty blown away by all that!

Then the phone rang again, and with it came news that escrow closed today.

My first thought, I am ashamed to say, was 'Are you SURE?'.

My second thought was 'I don't believe it.'

sigh. How awful, huh? 

I've been made very skeptical by this whole last five months.

But sixty seconds later, I was bawling my eyes out because it had finally sunk in. Five minutes later, we were out the door, in the truck, and flying across the island to our new home. {OK, well, it won't be home for a few days - we have details to finalize and then some cleaning to do before we inhabit it}. 

We stood there, looking at it, and burst into tears. 

Offered our thanks to God for His promise to us, for delivering it, and especially for the many many hands and hearts that are a part of this whole thing. Made a call to the people who made this all possible to say THANK YOU, while crying and smiling like idiots.

Then I looked up at the house and said 'Get Ready! You have NO IDEA what's in store for you - the process might hurt a bit, but you are gonna' LOVE IT!'. Bob laughed as I added 'Which is probably EXACTLY what God Himself said to us before this whole ordeal began.... we just didn't hear Him.'

I bet God was laughing, too. ;0) 

And you can bet that EVERY DAY for the rest of my life, 

I am going to wake up saying 

'Something FABULOUS is going to happen today!'