Moving, an answer to prayer?

I've been praying for years that the Lord would bring order and organization to my home.  As I do what is necessary to move overseas, I find that I am forced to go through all the stuff that we've accumulated over the past 16 years.  We've been purging, purging, purging.  It's freeing getting rid of stuff that doesn't mean anything to us but is just taking up space.  It's so easy to avoid it when you have a large home with lots of storage.  We'll be going from a 6 bedroom, 3300 sq. ft. home here to a 3-4 bedroom home with 1350-1500 square feet in Guam.  You have to be very choosy when deciding what to take to a place that size.  I can't help but wonder if this is God's answer--I hope and pray that He will use this move to bring that order and organization that I crave and that living in a very small home will force all of us to be more diligent about keeping things in order and getting rid of clutter regularly.

Scrapbooking for the last time

I went scrapbooking at the scrapbook store shortly after my last post.  I try to go there at least 1 Friday a month, where I can work on my books uninterrupted from 10 a.m. until midnight.  I usually meet my friends there, but none of them could come that day.  I had heard the store was closing but hadn't really thought much about how it would feel to be there.  When I walked in, I suddenly felt so sad.  The store was very empty with much of the stock sold--empty shelves, blank walls.  There were some ladies there that I knew.  They come there every Friday.  They were taking pictures together and going out to dinner just in case it was their last time to scrapbook together there.  It made me think of all the goodbyes coming up for us.  Made me want to document in pictures all the normal things we do regularly--music lessons, ballet and tumbling, neighborhood Bunco, hanging out with friends.  All the things I don't normally photograph because there is nothing particularly "special" about them.  While they aren't "events," they bring meaning and order and structure to our days.  I need to photograph the time we spend with all the special people in our lives that we see regularly.  For one day soon we won't see those people so much anymore, and those "everyday" activities that we used to take for granted will go from being a part of our present to a part of our history.