Catch us if you can

The busy summer is quickly blowing away with the chilly autumn winds. Our three weeks of vacation this summer was oh, so essential and how we soaked it up! Time to be together, apart from responsibilities and pressures.

The highlights of this holiday:
Seeing family and friends,
A trip up the coast to Oregon,
Cool evenings sitting in an outdoor hot tub,
Admiring the redwood trees towering overhead,
The crashing waves of the Pacific ocean,
Falling asleep to the sound of the frogs croaking and coyotes howling,
Seeing a bald eagle fly just over head,
Soaking up the California sunshine,
Picking big juicy sun-ripened blackberries,
All the home grown fruit;  pears, grapes, apples, and the list goes on.

Wouldn't mind doing that all over again.
But as holiday time came to an end we had some big changes in our plans. Instead of making our way across Europe to join the British again we found ourselves driving across the US to the State of Michigan where we're now attempting to make our home. The job search is on and the pressure and responsibility is all coming back after such a lovely break. But that's a blessing. An important reminder of our dependence on God and also of His never changing care for us.

A day in the countryside

He landed just in time :)

 

This guy was quite the poser!

Just loving all the fresh veg from our garden!! :-)

Good morning, it's August!

Yesterday must have been July and the day before, wasn't that June?
This is how summer has felt.

Sundown on the Island of Hiiumaa

I love summer; the sunshine, the warmth, the garden fresh veggies, the long summer evenings. I'm soaking up each summer day I can and this explains my lack of blogging. Sitting inside on the computer is not my idea of making the most of a summer day. But I have taken my camera with me quite a bit this summer so I'll have to do a post of my summer in pictures :) That post will have to wait for a rainy day though.


Today I am  here to say:

~ I am ecstatic that my hubby has finished his one year of civil service here in Estonia! (woohoo lots of celebration for that :)

~ We've just had a fantastic week full of traveling around Estonia, camping, lots of relaxing, good company, good conversations and wonderful weather as well! So happy our friends from England came to visit us. :-)

~ And in just a week my feet will be on American soil. :-)

And this week ahead, well it's going to be full ~
More application/visa paperwork to complete.
Many goodbyes to be said.
Everything must be packed.
Little decisions ...What to leave here. What to take there.
Along with more life changing decisions to make.
It's no surprise that life is bringing changes again for the Nõmmiks, change isn't exactly foreign to us.
A year here, a year there, it does keep life simple in some ways and yet incredibly complicated in others.
The days when I feel overwhelmed and I turn to God, laying my heart open for him, I find comfort. And there seems to be something to learn from those moments of weakness.

"Jesus said to His disciples:
I tell you not to worry about your life! Don't worry about having something to eat or wear. Life is more than food or clothing...Can worry make you live longer?  If you don't have power over small things, why worry about everything else?

God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. Won't he do even more for you? You have such little faith!...Only people who don't know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father knows what you need.  But put God's work first, and these things will be yours as well...

Make sure your treasure is safe in heaven, where thieves cannot steal it and moths cannot destroy it.  Your heart will always be where your treasure is."

~ Luke 12: 22-34

Summer is....

Flowers and Sunshine

Fresh veggies from our garden

Holidays

Homemade apple pie with ice cream

Fresh wild strawberries from the forest

Graduations

Days at the beach

What has your summer been filled with?