We're heading to North Carolina!

About 4 weeks ago, Tim called me and asked, "What do you think about Charlotte?"  Not sure exactly what to think, and wondering why he asked about my good friend's new baby girl named Charlotte, I responded, "I don't know?"  He had just received a call from his regional boss asking him if he would like a facility manager position that is coming available in the next few weeks.  He didn't have time to talk, so he said we'd talk later and hung up.  I was a little dazed, and feeling a little euphoric.

When we moved out here to Atlanta from Gilbert, AZ we wondered how long we would be here. Not thinking we would return right back to AZ, but that GA felt like a mission call, to get acquainted with living away from family, struggling in a difficult culture change to prepare us for another step. Knowing from recent experience that the only constant in life is change, we dug into our lives here in Woodstock, GA and have LOVED it!! We have met friends, neighbors, work associates and just plain good people. We have invested into friendships that will last a lifetime and we are so thankful for inspiration to bloom where we are planted, no matter how short or long you anticipate being there.

For the last few months, I've been hesitant to plan anything past Thanksgiving. We are scheduled to go to AZ for 10 days in November and for some reason in so many areas of planning my life and schedule, I just couldn't see past that trip!  Well my faith has given way to the knowledge that the Lord knows where we are and where we are going and even when we are going there.  After multiple invitations to plan for events and activities in January and February I continued to have an uneasiness to commit, that I couldn't shake.  I've had that uneasiness before, and ignored it and learned some really hard lessons because of it.  I know better now, and pray my faith to continue to grow as I move forward on the Lord's timetable of when and where we need to be, as well as what we need to be doing.

So, for the last few weeks as we've kept this to ourselves and finalized this decision, I've cried a lot, but felt even more peace about moving forward.  As my wonderful aunt Roseann said, "We can do hard things! Is hard bad? Hard makes you smart and hard makes you strong."

I've been worried about how the kids will handle another big "uprooting" change again so soon, but, just like me and Tim, they will grow and be better for it. Kids are resilient, and we are doing our best to fortify them with a testimony and knowledge of the Plan of Happiness that will help them get through hard times now and throughout their whole lives.  They are going to do great!

When I renamed our blog to "Harper Town USA" I had an inclination that we may be moving somewhere, but had no idea the challenges and blessings that were laid out before us on this journey.

So, here we are headed to Mooresville, NC and as we look forward with faith, we take with us the cherished friendships and memories we've made here in Woodstock.

It's Fall in Georgia

It's fall in Georgia, and we have a huge tulip tree in our front yard that is probably 100 feet tall, has about a million leaves and they like to fall from September 15 until buds show up again in the spring.  Most of the leaves fall about now, and in the past week, this is what has accumulated.  The girls love to play in them and the pile is about 5 feet tall when they are all raked together.  

I remember playing in leaves as a kid, but it was a lot of work to get all the leaves raked into a pile. Because this tree is so tall, all the leaves fall in a relatively small area that we just blow all together and it results in lots of fun with little work.  Who doesn't love that!!

Here are some pictures and some videos here on my youtube channel.