Well, we met with one realtor this morning. They were thirty minutes late – which didn’t really give a good first impression. They could have called saying they made a wrong turn…

The long and short of it: we don’t trust ‘em. Not a bit. They were a husband and wife team – Stephen and I were joking that they were trying to double-team us. But there was just something about them that made me uneasy. Really uneasy.

You should have seen how quickly they shut down when we told them that we were meeting with other realtors as well. Wow. The first realtor we met with encouraged us to meet with other realtors, and this one – well – you know.

I highly doubt we’ll be calling them back. But on the flip side – it sure gave us something else to consider – like what not to look for in a realtor!

I called two more realtors this morning. The first one we called wanted 8% comission – which we thought was a bit steep. She kept saying that it was negotiable, which to me, gave me the impression that she wasn’t convinced that she was worth the 8% (yes, I read a lot into it, but after working for myself and setting my own rates – I’m starting to learn how second-guessing your rates can effect your customers).

One realtor is coming tomorrow morning at 10, and the other is coming Wednesday afternoon at 2. We’re sort of ‘comparison shopping’ – not for the lowest price, per se, but for the best realtor.

We’re hoping to get the house listed on the market by the end of the week. We’ll see!

I am so glad! Stephen arrived home about an hour ago. We missed him so much.

I just got a phone call from a mom looking for a piano teacher for her daughter. I told her I couldn’t take her – that was hard! It just wouldn’t be fair to the girl to start lessons with me, and then have me leave after a month of lessons (if that).

I think that’s the first time I’ve ever turned down a potential student. Hopefully we’ll get moved soon and I can start accepting as many students as I get calls for!

Found a link to this game on PH. Watch out – it’s addictive!

Flying Penguins

Lately, the Holy Spirit has been convicting me of something. While I was reading my Bible this afternoon, He used what I was reading to speak to me further. I didn’t have any peace until I made a phone call and made things right.

Although I have gotten things right with that person, I’m still thinking about it. “It” being “being teachable.” How teachable am I? When someone instructs me, do I listen? Do I take to heart what that person is telling me?

As a piano teacher, I see many different personalities in my students. I have a student right now who has such a sweet spirit that she is just a joy to teach. It doesn’t matter what I say – her attitude is always wonderful and she is willing to try anything I tell her to do on the instrument. On the other hand, I have had some students who are so very hard to teach – because they were not teachable. I remember one of my very first students – he hated lessons and never really let me forget it. He made lessons miserable! He had plenty of talent, but he resented me telling him what to do, even though my instruction was intended to help him grow as a musician.

In life, we’re just like that. When we receive instruction, what is our reaction? Do we take the directions to heart and obey them? Or do we only obey outwardly – all the while, seething inside and not really caring who notices our bad attitude?

I know for me at least, I have to work sometimes to have a good attitude. But in the long run, my opinion really doesn’t matter when I am told to do something. It’s my attitude, my obedience (outward AND inward). We have a choice.

Last night as I was getting Little man ready for bed he asked to go potty. He’s not been going every time I’ve put him on there, but I figured it couldn’t hurt. He goes most of the time…and since his diapers are getting drier and drier between trips to the bathroom…

I stood him next to the toilet to see if he’d climb up there himself (he climbed up onto Annie’s potty when we were visiting her this week – so I wanted to see if he’d do it here too). I leaned over and looked at the mirror for a second, and then I thought, “I better see if he’s gotten up there yet” because I couldn’t see him in my peripheral vision.

No sooner had I thought it when I felt something wet on my bare foot.

Little man was peeing on the floor, and it was splattering onto my foot!

I quickly scooped him up and set him on the toilet, but he had already finished, lol! It took every ounce of my being not to laugh my head off while I was cleaning it up. I did NOT want him to know I thought it was funny!

So I guess we’re fully in the swing of potty training now!

Wow – those scammers can be slick!

Turns out that the job that Stephen got wasn’t all it cracked up to be. He got into the training and found out that it was a scam. Needless to say, he won’t be going back.

He has a few more ideas for jobs that I think he’s going to check out before he heads home. Maybe the next time I have a job update it’ll be a real job – and a good one at that!

Exhausted, but home. We left shortly after 5 this morning, a friend picked us up from the airport and drove us home, and we’re home now.

Thanks so much to all who are praying; however, we’re not home yet.

Stephen really was not comfortable with me driving that far by myself, so he ended up buying a plane ticket for me to come home Wednesday morning. We got a pretty good price for it, and actually, it was about the same price as the gas we would have gotten if we had driven. I had a hard time justifying paying that much for a ticket, but when we sat down and crunched numbers, it made a lot more sense. It was also a huge relief to me to not have to drive!

I’m sorry I haven’t had a chance to update sooner. Stephen and I went into town today do run some errands. He also drove me past the building where he’ll be working – it was nice to see where it was!

Well, I guess that’s about it…the way things stand right now, I should be back home in time to be at church tomorrow night.