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Peaceful Mama, aka Carolyn Wallace, has the flu this week.  So here is a post for you to enjoy that I wrote last summer.  FYI, I am writing to you from our lovely new home that we were able to move into on August 27 of last year.

This past month has been an opportunity for our whole family to practice gratitude.  My husband, son and I have been living in a one-room apartment since the end of June, when we sold our house to a lovely couple.  We weren’t able to close on our new house until the beginning of August, so we had to find housing for the month of July. “It will be all right,” we told ourselves.  “We can live together in one room, with a one-burner hot-plate as our only source of cooking, for a month.  It might even be fun.”  So we moved into an efficiency apartment, full of enthusiasm, ready to endure a little discomfort while we waited out the time-lapse between moving out of our old house and moving into the new house. Continue reading →