Nagel Status Report

What a ride this has been so far! God is amazing and we are learning to enjoy His presence more and more each day.

Emotionally we're all doing quite well. We're excited to hit the road and see what lies ahead. The kids are doing great with their home schooling. For reading, Smith, Zaisy, and I have a goal of reading through the entire Bible together this year. We read 3 chapters a day. I read the first one, Smith reads the second, and then Zaisy and I alternate verses on the third chapter. Boy, reading through Genesis sure sparked some interesting questions! Luckily, our kids are all amazingly intelligent, so they're easy to teach.

Just in the last two or three weeks, Davis seems to have really gotten over the "two-year-old hump" and is now such a joy to be around. He's even eating almost everything we put in front of him now. He adores his older brother and sister and will do anything to make them laugh.

We've had about $4,000 come in for the van so far. Praise God! We're currently shopping, test-driving, and narrowing down our selection. We really like the 15 passenger Ford E350 models. Let us know if you see anything good out there.

Last Thursday we had another showing on our house. The people have a bid in on another house here on the West-side...but there is two other bids on that same house. They said our house is second on their list.

Then today, which is the last day of our original listing, our realtor gets a call from a "drive-by." They loved everything about the outside of the house and are coming for a showing tomorrow from 12-1pm. They said if they like the inside as much as the outside they will place a bid tomorrow. Praise God! He is never late.

Rachel and I are so excited about life right now. We made it through the fear and uncertainty stage, and now we're ready to get going. We don't know exactly where this road will lead us, but we're sure glad to travel it together!

ps. on Thursday our home phone will be turned off and we'll go to strictly cell phone use