Lessons Learned...

1-Always plan on the worst possible scenario and when it is over it is not as bad as you thought it would be (I learned this the hard way)
2-Don't be afraid to ask for help when you really need it
3-Try to never move again! (I know that we will have at least one more move in our lifetime, but I do not like moving)
4-The importance to get a truck that has a camper shell (even though it may look dumb and cheesy)
5-Remember to just breathe in and out!
6-Having Faith and Trusting in the Lord is the only way to have strength to carry on and to find some happiness in the midst of stress, frustration, and life in general!

Now with that said, here is what happened that taught me all of those lessons...
Starting back in January, I was having a really hard time understanding why the Lord wanted my family to be renting in Twin Falls when my parents house was empty and waiting for us to move in! This was a real struggle for me, and I found myself getting depressed and not able to have the will to take care of things! I realized this feeling and did not like it, so I knelt down and prayed for help, to understand, and for strength to carry on and be the mother and wife that I have always desired to be! The Lord blessed me to find strength through my scripture study and comforted me through Priesthood Blessings and helped me through Ensign articles! Ammon and I prayed and fasted often and went to the Temple often to ask for direction and conformation on the decisions that we made! We have been trying to get Ammon transferred over to Pocatello (with his job) so that we can live in my parents house! We felt impressed to put in our 30 day notice with our apartment at the beginning of February, even though we had not heard of any kind of position being opened! This was an act of Faith and we moved forward with faith knowing that the Lord knows all things and whatever happens will be for the best! On February 8th, Ammon was contacted and was asked if he preferred one job over the next if a position were to be opened and approved to fill! We then did not hear anything for a very long time! Since we had to be out of our apartment by the end of the month, I asked Ammon if we could move most of our stuff over Presidents Day Weekend, since he could help on Presidents Day as well as on Saturday! Ammon agreed, even though Friday morning he went on a cross country skiing trip/camp-out and did not return until Saturday morning and hour before we needed to start packing the trailer to move! We had asked the Elders Quorum if they could get some guys to help us pack up the trailer, and I had asked someone to watch the kids for us so that I could help pack as well! Well, half an hour past the time that people should have been there, we realized that everyone either forgot or something happened in the communication department that made it fail! I sat down and started calling everyone on the ward list and only got ahold of two guys that were gracious enough to come and help us! I can not express the relief and gratitude that I have for those two men! Of course during all of this, Jeremiah thought that we were leaving him and was screaming for the whole 3 hours it took us to load everything and get in the truck and Jeep and drive away! Gideon was a great helper and loved to bring stuff out to Daddy! He sure is a very strong young boy and it surprised me to see how he could carry very heavy things! Anyway...we got to my parents house and thankfully we were blessed to have 9 men show up to unload and a friend watch the boys and feed us as well! What a great blessing to end on on a very hard day! Then my wonderful sister came and helped me pack up my mothers kitchen and put my kitchen stuff in its place! Then we headed back to Twin for one last week praying that we would hear from Pocatello! Finally on Friday the 25th we get an e-mail asking for a phone interview on Monday! YES!!!! The Lord truly is over all things and loves us so much! We get through the week in an empty apartment, which was very difficult to keep two boys happy all day long, clean, and cook with plastic ware! Monday morning (the 28th) a good friend and three of her boys and one of her daughters came over to help us load our bed and the last of our stuff into the truck! By 11 a.m. I pulled out of Twin with the boys and Ammon was at work in Twin Falls! After having to stop at every exit from Twin to Burley (a half hour drive that took me 2 hours) to fix one side of the tarp, I called Ammon and asked for some help because the tarp was just not working! After waiting for him for an hour (with two very tired and screaming boys sitting in the truck because it was too cold and windy to get out and play) Ammon showed up to help (he had had his phone interview by this time which went very well)! He told me about his interview as he fixed the tarp! He followed me to Rupert and had me pull over and fix the tarp one last time! He told me the tarp would be just fine, but I had to drive 55mph the rest of the way! So long story short a normal three hour drive took me from 11 a.m. till 6:15 p.m. to drive!! I now see why my husband wants a camper shell on his truck when he gets one (so that we don't have to deal with a tarp ever again!)! I then asked a neighbor if he could help me unload the bed! I then went to Arctic Circle to eat, where I realized that I became a mother that I thought I would never be like (my baby had one sock on and a dirty face from eating snacks in the truck all day and my 3 year old had no coat on when it was probably in the teens outside)! We ate and came home and went to bed! The next morning Gideon woke up saying his tummy hurt! He was throwing up all day long! I was overwhelmed with trying to do two weeks worth of laundry, care for a sick 3 year old that sometimes didn't make it to the bathroom or the bowl in time, care for a 15 month old who is not used to change and wanted to be carried around all day and who was cutting a molar tooth at the same time, and deal with boxes and stuff everywhere you turned! Thankfully since my sister helped me put my kitchen together, I was able to feed myself and Jeremiah! I had to ask a friend to come over and watch Gideon while I ran to the store to get milk though!
I do not know what to do at this point! I can not wait until my husband gets home on the weekend to help!

To end on a good note...we did get the Job transfer in Pocatello which starts on March 21st! Hopefully, my husband will be able to finish up his work in Twin this week and next, so that he can have a week off to spend with us and DESTRESS!!!! Hopefully, I can have the energy and patience to be a single parent for two whole weeks! If any of you have ideas on what I can do to make this time fun for my boys and with as little stress as possible on all of us, we would truly be grateful!!!
I need to express my gratitude to my Father in Heaven who has been with me every hour through this whole ordeal! I am so blessed to have the gospel in my life and to know that if I listen with my heart I will hear the Saviors voice giving me strength to carry on!