Soo...here is my big announcement.

[Brother Dad]

Good to see what all you got done.

[MelodyB]

Another Update...My Mom just called and said that my Daddy will be here on Tuesday, so we can get the big stuff in the storage, and then on Wednesday, I get to leave.

*sigh*

I am so nervous. I dont know if I can do this. LOL

[Brother Dad]

Yes you can, just look at it as an adventure with God.

[MelodyB]

I know...but I am still scared to death...I have never left Florida. 28 years here, and 20 of those right in this spot. Its kinda scary.

[RainbowJingles]

Just don't forget to pack your umbrella.  Maybe even more than one.  You'll need 'em over there!!

[Sis]

When I left Minnesota, I left the house that's been in my family since 1942! That was weird! I grew up there. When my dad got remarried he was going to put it on the market, but just at that time I needed a place, so he sold it to me.

I spen all of my 21 years there.  LOL

I moved away and came back home about ten years later.

[nicolejoy]

I lived in one house for 23 years, then got married and moved across town for about a year and a half, then I moved to HONG KONG!!! lol - I know how you feel, with a big move and all...

[Brother Dad]

Any move or change in our lives can be very scary.  However we understand that God is in control.  This does not however stop the many questions with no answers that pop in our mind.  This is why life is an adventure.  But always remember Melody, we pray for you each and every day.  I know that God is directing your steps right now.  So walk by faith knowing that where ever He may lead you, you will not fall.   

[The Purple Fuzzy]

* The Purple Fuzzy hugs Mel

[SippinTea]

*Hugs* Melody
*Hugs* new adventures

What was it I said one time?... that Jennica quoted in her sig line?... *Hugs* new adventures--the lovely, the scary, the whole of them. Or something like that.

*Hugs* God, who does ALL things well

[BeccaBoo]

* Becca waltzs into the room throwing out hugs and waltzs back out

[EricShane]

wow mel I didnt know you were moving!

closer to me yay!

*i think*

i dunno where missississipi i tho..

[Sis]

I was excited when we moved. What was frightening to me was selling the house. The only thing I actually owned that was worth anything. It was supposed to be something to fall back on. A place to live even if everything else failed.

My house was paid for. Only paid a couple hundred, or so,  dollars taxes every year. It was my stability. I let it go and went skipping off on a new adventure, which turned out to be two adventures. The only thing I don't like around here is the rent being so horribly high.

[MelodyB]

Courtney and I got the rest of the apartment packed today. I just have a little bit of stuff left to do by myself tomorrow, and then I will be finished until my Daddy comes to move the big stuff for me.

I dont know HOW we are gonna fit everything into the storage unit. I will have to remember to take my camera over there and take a picture of how packed it is in there.

[MelodyB]

wow mel I didnt know you were moving!

closer to me yay!

*i think*

i dunno where missississipi i tho..

Perhaps if you would call me once in awhile, you would know these things. *cough*

Im moving to Pascagoula. According to Yahoo, right now I am 791 miles from you, and after I move I will be 808 miles from you...so 17 more miles away. Can you live with that?

[BeccaBoo]

Estimated Time: 8 hours 36 minutes Estimated Distance: 487.35 miles

From you to me...or vice versa...MelPoo

[Tricia Lea]

hmmm Mel will be  634.78 miles Time: 9 hrs 54 mins away from here when she gets there

[EricShane]

wow mel I didnt know you were moving!

closer to me yay!

*i think*

i dunno where missississipi i tho..

Perhaps if you would call me once in awhile, you would know these things. *cough*

Im moving to Pascagoula. According to Yahoo, right now I am 791 miles from you, and after I move I will be 808 miles from you...so 17 more miles away. Can you live with that?

lol.. okay

[MelodyB]

Well yall are welcome to come visit me anytime yall want.

[BeccaBoo]

Same goes here MelPoo...

[Brother Dad]

Mel, you are doing a Great thing.  Just keep looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of your salvation.  And my the way i am honored that you call me Dad.

[MelodyB]

Thank you so much.

About the Dad thing...I told Mom once that it was hard for me to call anyone "Dad" cause I have ALWAYS been a Daddys girl and had a wonderful relationship with him, so I had never felt the need to give any other man that title. But with you it was easy, it took a little while, but it is just natural now, and I really feel like you are a wonderful Godly Father figure to me, so it is my pleasure to call you "Dad"   At first I didnt know how you would feel about it, or how your natural children would feel as well, but I see that I have been fully excepted as one of the family, and Tabitha even told me yesterday that I was one of yall. You guys just dont know how awesome that makes me feel. *sniff*

Thanks.

[MelodyB]

Ok...back on topic here.... I have about an hours worth of work to do at the apartment today, just finishing packing the clothes that I am taking with me to MS, and cleaning the place up a bit and moving things around of what goes with us, and what goes to storage when my Daddy gets here on Tuesday. I will try to remember to take pictures today of the MASSIVE amount of stuff that I am actually getting rid of. (I cant believe that I am, Im sorta a packrat) And a picture of the storage unit and how much of a TIGHT fit it all will be when I get it all in there.

I threw away about 6 trash bags FULL of STUFF this week. I threw away mementos that I never thought I would get rid of, and stuff I have had since I was a very small child. I figured that I always have those memories, and if I died tomorrow, no one else would know what most of that stuff meant to me, so what was the point in keeping it? I kept the really important stuff, but I was surprised at myself at how much stuff I actually did throw out.

[iridiscente]

It feels good to get rid of stuff, huh?

[MelodyB]

Actually, it does. I didnt think I would ever WANT to get rid of anything, but the more I was throwing away, the more I threw away. LOL Courtney told me she was very proud of me, she thought it was gonna be hard to get me to throw some of that stuff out.