The Great Unknown

As I sit in our temporary home in Canton, Ohio with my precious angels pondering what our next step will be in regards to where we live, I decided I have to start keeping written record of our crazy/wonderful life. I wondered whether I should try to backtrack and post about all of the "big events" of our lives up until this point and decided that would be near impossible. Maybe I will have designated "flashback days" and play catch up then. I'm not sure. I do know that the Higgins Household makes many different amazingly awesome memories daily and I want a place to come one day to remember what I might forget :)

 

So, where are we now? We are living in a duplex on Clarendon Avenue in Canton Ohio. It snows here... A LOT :)

 We still have our home on Greenfield Road in Natchez Mississippi that I grew up in. Jim is on the pipeline here in Ohio and it has been a wild ride for sure. In August of 2013, I drove 1090 miles to a town called East Sparta with a three year old and a 2 month old to move into a 28 foot camper trailer with my best friend, my husband.

 

There are many, many men that work the pipeline without their families. Many wives and children stay back at home to carry on their day to day lives because they feel that they have to... and I get that. However, Jim and I feel that no matter where we go in life, we will go together or we will not go at all. Is it easy? Absolutely not. Is it worth it? No doubt about it!

 Seeing this every night is worth any 1000 mile drive :)

 

 

We attend church here at a spirit-filled church called Faith Family. I searched for church homes before I left MS and Faith Family was it from the get go. We went one time and fell in love. The people there are wonderful and the holy spirit moves in waves each and every time we are there. It is amazing. I have used their connect groups to meet a few people that I know will be lifelong friends. There is a homeschooling group that we have become a part of and the girls and I both love it :) I truly do love living here. The people are nice. Everything you could ever need is within a 15 mile drive. The gyms are fabulous. Addison cries to go to the grocery store childcare.... yes, I said they have childcare while you shop. The doctors and hospitals have been nice. I am thankful and blessed for sure.

 

With all of that being said, I guess the most recent "event" in our lives has progressed over the past few weeks. Our precious GraceAnn has been sick.

 She started off with an ear infection about 5 weeks ago that seemed to "get better" and come right back. After many doctors' visits and three antibiotics over 5 weeks, I decided that her ears were not really getting any better at all. We saw a specialist here on Monday and tubes were put in Tuesday morning at 7:30. Although I know the procedure and that it is not a big deal, when Tuesday morning came, I was feeling a bit nervous. She is only six months old and she has to be put under a bit... yes, I was a bit of a wreck. The surgery only took about 10 minutes and we got the call to the waiting room that I could come back to recovery. Nothing could have prepared me for the next 45 minutes. My easy-going, happy-go-lucky, precious, laid back child was SCREAMING NON-STOP. She was not whining. She was not crying. She was screaming and I could not soothe her. I was asking questions and no one was giving me direct answers. It was an absolute nightmare. Long story short, it was the anesthesia. Once it wore off, our baby was back :)

 

Everyone in our household is now sleeping better and we are on to our next big hurdle. Jim got a promotion. Awseome right! Yes, it is. However, they are moving him 2 hours away from where we just signed a lease and got all comfy. We are at a crossroad. Do we move there? Do we come home? Do we buy a larger RV so that when this happens again, it will not be a problem? We are praying and trusting God's will for our lives. We are not sure what the next step is but while we are waiting, we are just loving the heck out of each other and counting our many blessings each day :)