The New Look!

Well this is the new look- for now! Thanks to Erin I have a few really cute options for the banner and thus the look of the blog. Now some of you might think that the blog is too summery BUT to a few when you saw it you said-"That looks like Tennessee Orange" and to those few I say "GO VOLS!"
And Rocky Top- you'll always be home sweet home to me! Good Ole Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee!

Update

Thanks for your prayers. I know they have been and are being answered for my sweet friends. Sarah and Laura are both doing exceptionally well at the moment. Of course there life is forever changed but the day to day is getting easier it appears. Sarah said something the first day and I think about it often but every purchase (big or small) or sentimental gift given now will be "after the fire." I know I have had "crisis training" but for all its worth it still really sucks to watch my friends go through all this. I am totally being selfish but I want my life back to normal, routine- I know THEY DO too! When will that happen? for any of us? They are back to work today and will move into the townhomes soon, maybe this week or next? so when that happens they will be my almost neighbors! yippee! Its just such a SLOW process! and now is the time I wonder what to do- the dust (shock) has settled, family members have gone home and life is supposed to be getting normal for them. but seriously how can it be it was just 8 days ago! it feels like a century to me. so all the to say please continue to keep them in your prayers!

Please Pray

My dear dear bestest friends, Sarah and Laura,lost their home to fire early Sunday morning. They are physically unharmed but are homeless and without anything. They literally got out with only the clothes on their back- which was p.j.'s due the time of day/night! It is all very surreal and overwhelming. They lost everything. I mean just thinking about that, everything big and small- all the knickknacks, hand me downs,antiques, clothes new and old, bedroom stuff, matresses, sheets, toothbrush, food, dishes, all your valubles and all your identifying paperwork- passports, drivers liscesne, bank card and check book. I mean how do you even prove you are who you say you are to get to the money that is yours! Furthermore if you go and try to get a liscense what address do you give them, where are you going to live- this is what my sweet friends are dealing with! Too much! They lost their phones as well so they were limited to call only those whose numbers they knew by heart- and lets face it that's about zero since 1997!
SO my mind is racing today and it is so hard to work! But they will be alright- they did have renters insurance so some if not all will end up getting compensated but they have to rebuild their lives!
Please please pray for them, for peace,provison and wisdom.