Good News!

Good News #1!  I got a job.  YES.  It's not full time, it isn't with a school district, but it is enough to support us and I think I will enjoy it.  I will be a nanny for a family with five kids.  They are very active and involved in lots of extra-curricular and last fall brought twins into the family, so they are looking for 'extra hands' basically.  I feel blessed to help mom out with all of her daily mom duties and hopefully she will relax once we get started and see that I can do all the nitty gritty so she can do the fun mom stuff.  She still seems hesitant and I think she feels like she's handing her kids off on a stranger.  Dad described the position as "Alice from the Brady Bunch."  I think it will be a fun year.

Good News #2!  We found an apartment!  It's so close to the campus, we can see the football field.  It's small, only 16 units, and mostly occupied by professors and other upper classmen.  Pretty much, parking doesn't get any better than our parking lot.  Also, it's only two years old, and the landlord just LOWERED rent by 50 dollars.  2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, washer, dryer, open and spacious kitchen.  The landlord has been in the apartment business for almost 30 years, his family owns most the apartments around campus, but this one is his alone and seems to be his little pet project.  Everything is in great condition, and he shows a lot of care for keeping it looking nice.  Also, this isn't his sole income.  He has a job with the state forestry and his wife works for the university, so he's not looking at this like dollar bills.  We both feel he is very genuine in his intentions to keep happy tenants.  We put a deposit in it last night and can move in once he cleans the carpets.  Or, we can wait he said.  Good Guy.

To think, we weren't even planning to move down until next week originally.  Then we got the urge to move sooner and get ourselves down here.  We ended up sitting around a lot, and feeling a little uncertain, but then things just fell into place.  I know my humility was tested, and once again, I have seen that obedience opens the path to many blessings and opportunities.

Good News #3!  HARRY POTTER.  We are among the masses that have been awaiting this final installment.  We also have our first double date tomorrow (good news 3.5) to see the movie.  We wanted to go to the midnight, but passed that to go with some new friends.

Good News #4!  Evan's sister returns from her mission tonight!  He is excited to talk to her I'm sure.  I know he was very disappointed he'd be missing out on her home coming, but that's why we have phones and skype :)

The Andersons are starting to feel at home in Arkansas!