Little Houses, Small Towns, and Everything I want but does God want it for me?

This song is from the movie 'Summer Magic' it's called Flitterin and it's about movin :)

The Little Yellow House in Bulla

*You may or may not be able to make out the house behind the words in this picture THAT is the little yellow house in Bulla*

SOI have always loved little towns, where everyone knows each other, everyone goes to church, just country living.  I live in a small town but not that kind.  I know most everyone but that’s just because I have 17 first cousins and 29 second cousins and god knows how many other…and I know them all there are a few ‘Big’ families in our county, well known families…ones that have been here since before it was a county.  The Costas, The Powers (us), The Kuntz’s, The Lombardi’s, The Lifestyles, and maybe 2 others.  We’re what you call ‘old Calaveras’ we’re royalty out here ;) anyway but this is not a nice little county, no nice little towns.  I’m tired of California and the liberal way they do things out here, the schools, how the kids turn out, how prominent BAD drugs are and I mean hard core drugs like ya know meth.  I want a small town.  I want a garden.  I want a little house.  A little family.  A church.  My husband to actually live with me ;) We want to live in Arkansas, because sometime later in our lives we’re going to have to come back to California to take care of my parents and younger brothers so while we are young and able I want to live somewhere else, somewhere slower paced than California.  When I have children I want their defining years to be somewhere that will live a good and lasting impression.  Ever since I was little I have been OBSESSED with the movie Summer Magic starring Haylie Mills, and the house they move from Boston to live in ‘The Little Yellow House in Bulla’ I have been completely obsessed and infatuated with yellow house since, little yellow houses lol!  My family well my big family doesn’t know one set of Grandparents know and my parents (btw the grandparents are NOT having it), and a few close friends know that’s where we plan on living.  My Grandfather is appalled and pissed and every other horrible thing and I’m VERY close to him so this is pretty hard, Stephen wants to be a cop when he’s out (yay!) and we want a house, not an apartment, a house.  We want to live near his family while we can, (his relationship with them needs definite work) I’ve always wanted to live somewhere else for a little while…and I’ve always been obsessed with the south ;) my grandfather is saying you don’t make shit for money out there and I am fully aware that they make a lot less money out there BUT the cost of living is so much cheaper! We figure that it will kind of even out and we’re going out there with money saved up as well, and until he can get a job he gets unemployment as well.  We want to rent an apartment (and me go to school online) while he works and we save up money for 6months-a year.  Then get a house in a small town.  Anyway we aren’t running before we learn to walk we’re actually putting thought into it we just know what we want.  Anyway now I can’t help it I am completely obsessed with anything to do with Real Estate…omg help me lol! HGTV, House Hunters, Holmes on Homes, my favorite writers just wrote a book about a couples hunt for their perfect house!  And moving and the south…its ridiculous lol there’s a couple songs that I love from summer magic but this one just makes me think it’s time to go and its going to be ok, and idk just that this is a good choice.  Little towns are just everything I wanted growing up some of it I had and that just made everything my town could’ve been even more prevalent in my mind.  I feel like for once in my life I know what I really really want.  I don’t know if it’ll happen, I don’t know if it’s in God’s plan but I hope it is.

I am TRYING VeRy HARD to remember that even if it's in my plan and it's what I want or what I think I want it may not be God's plan for me, for us.  I need  to start going to church and I want to start getting more in touch with God about stuff like this I want us to make the right decision, even if it's not what we want or what's in our plan.  Anyway keeping this in mind it is the only thing keeping me from calling real estate offices and making lists and 5 year plans lol because I have found that plans never work out how you think they will.

THIS song is also from the movie, and this is what I want Stephen can't believe what a different person I am when I'm not in 'California Mode' and he loves it...this is what I think of :)

Three creaky wooden stairs
Those squeaky rocking chairs
The well worn welcome mat
The lattice vines
The happy times
All I want to do
When the day is through
Is linger here on the front porch
With you
From the wicker swing
While the night birds sing
We'll watch the fireflies sparkin'
Do some sparkin' too
How the hours fly
As the moon drifts by --
How sweet the air
As we stare
At the sight
Oh! How I love to linger here like this
Hold your hand, and steal a kiss
Or two
On the front porch with you
All I want to do
When the day is through
Is linger here on the front porch
With you
From the wicker swing
While the night birds sing
We'll watch the fireflies sparkin'
Do some sparkin' too
(Some sparkin' too!)
How the hours fly
As the moon drifts by --
How sweet the air
As we stare
At the sight
Oh! How I love to linger here like this
Hold your hand, and steal a kiss
Or two
On the front porch with you