Short post

I won't be posting much the next few days. With the new job and moving I hardly have time for Little Man and Daddy. Hopefully by next week I can take it easy and slowly unpack stuff and stay intune to you all.

I am LOVING my new job. Although I'm pretty overwhelmed (and confused!) on all my job duties. But that's OK. I know I'll get it down eventually and will have a routine. One thing I do love is there is a therapy dog, Jasper, that comes in with her owner. She only goes in a couple times a week but because she had eye surgery she's been in everyday this week (so her owner can give her eye drops while she works). She is the sweetest and she goes around to all the business personnel to get a treat. I love it! She walks around the nursing home like she owns the place. It's too funny! She definitely knows where she's going.

We have a place and hope to be fully moved in by the beginning of next week. It's very hard when all of our friends are busy this week otherwise they would have helped during the week. We should have help tomorrow and Friday night and all weekend. So that'll help.

Well I'm off to target to pick up some things.

Oh Daddy got an email from a company he use to work for, well through his former job, and they want to set up an interview. The only bummer is the job is 1 hour and 5 minutes from our new home. Sigh. If we must, we must.

And good news is on April 1st we'll have insurance. It's not bad but the premium is awful. Wherever I've worked I've always had an option to pick a higher premimum plan and not have a deductible. Not here. Sigh. One option is a $1500 deductibe (or $6000 for our family) or a $500 deductible (or $1500 for our family). We're choosing the $500 deductible but that means we'll have to pay $548 and some change. Eep. More than I was hoping for.

The day after Christmas

I hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas.

We sure did! We went to our Christmas Eve song service at church, like we do every year. Before church while shaking our hands our pastor told us that he'd like us to walk over to the school (which is across the parking lot from church) after church. We said OK. We were planning on just walking over to the school. It was cold (I think the temp was around 2 below not sure) but not windy and actually was a very beautiful Christmas Eve night. Our pastor suggested we drive over and he'll meet us there.

So we strapped Little Man in his carseat and drive to the school. Daddy got out and walked into the school. A moment later he and our pastor walk out with about 3 bags each. Then they went back in for more!! Then the pastor went back in and brought out a HUGE present. He said all he knows about all the bags and presents is it's from an anonymous family.

Yep, I'm crying now.

We get home get into our pj's and let Little Man stay up to open more gifts! He got some more clothes (which are 4T so we'll pack those for next year.), books, a horse that neighs flashlight, a couple DVD's, and the big toy was a Play-doh Creativity Center. He LOVES it! Most of the bags were filled with groceries; sugar (brown, white, and powdered), flour, chocolate chips (Daddy's happy I can bake now), cereal, applesauce, some snacks for little man, soup and crackers to name a few. I don't think I've ever seen my cupboard look so full. They also gave us a Cub gift certificate and a gas card.

God has truly blessed us this year and even during this past month. We have the greatest friends and are very thankful for them and the people who have graciously opened their arms to us. We did not expect all this.

As soon as Little Man is up from his nap today we are going to play with the Play-Doh. And I'm sure I'll have a few pictures to post.

Our Christmas Day service was beautiful. The choir, handbells and the singing were wonderful and I was able to hold back the tears and not cry.

It's Christmas

I am very excited for Christmas but I am also stressed out. Not because of Christmas shopping, cooking, and the anxiety that goes with going to my in laws.

No shopping this year, no job. Cooking? I already did my cookie baking and am done. And we're not going to the in laws this year.

I am stressed over the situation I unfortunately can't talk about (but it has to do with my nephew and his safety). I have been crying all day. I cried while I wrapped the few presents we bought Little Man. I have Christmas music on and I'm crying. I pray I can make it through our Christmas Day service without bawling. Daddy and I sing in the choir and play handbells and it would be a sight if I'm bawling up there.

I was trying to put these new pants Little Man got (I'll explain in a bit) and he did NOT want them on. They are camouflage. I asked him why he didn't want to wear them. He said 'They're Kyle's'. Insert a bawling mom here. Whenever we would see Kyle he would be wearing camouflage pants and Little Man didn't want to wear them. I told him he can look like Kyle and wear them, if he wants. He did! And boy is he the cutest in those pants!

Back to how we got the pants. When I left yesterday (to deal with this whole issue) Daddy said a lady showed up asking if we lived here. He said Yes and she said she'd be right back. She went to her vehicle and brought us 6 bags full of clothes, toys, gift cards, a Wells Fargo card with a lot of money on it, some books for Little Man, a stool with Little Man's name on it and a couple of books for Daddy and I. One of those books is Multiple Blessings by Jon and Kate (of Jon and Kate plus 8). I wanted that book but didn't have the money!

We have such wonderful friends (and people we don't know). It truly is amazing how God continues to bless us and blesses us with such wonderful people in our lives.

This and that

Well Christmas is only 5 days away. I can't believe how fast this month has flown. I still need to wrap Little Man's presents. I haven't put them under the tree yet because I don't feel like saying 'Don't touch' 8 million times a day. So his presents will go under the tree Christmas Eve. I'm still undecided on when he'll open them. I would like to have him open one Christmas Eve night and the rest Christmas morning but we need to be at church by 8am to practice for handbells and choir. I'm hoping he wakes up at 6am and heads to the tree and digs in. That would be wonderful! :)

I've been under alot of stress the past couple weeks. I won't be going into details on here (and no it's not about Daddy not having a job). We bought Christmas candy 2 weeks ago and I've been spending my days eating cookies and chocolate, and I can't have chocolate. So far I don't have stomach cramps but that could change. I'm also not sleeping well. Thursday night I was having chest pains so bad I was thisclose on having Daddy take me to the ER. I'm glad I fell asleep because we don't have insurance. I pray that this will all be solved quickly and my nephew is safe. I also wonder if maybe it's a good thing Daddy, Little Man and I are more than likely moving out of state. It seems our friends are better family than family.

Sad, I know.

Chaos

I was reading Angie's blog (by the way she is the wife of Todd who is a member of the group Selah). On a side note I suggest you add her blog to your list of blogs to read. She really is a remarkable woman with great strength and faith in our Lord.

She wrote about some Chaos going on in her family. And posted a video I thought was perfect for what Daddy and I are going through. I thought I'd post it here and share it with you all because I know we aren't the only ones with a stumbling block in our lives.

Whatever you're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something heavenly

Friends

Last week Daddy lost his job. As everyone knows (and is probably living) this economy is awful. I was talking to a friend today and she said there's only one thing to do in a time like this, fold your hands (pray) and trudge on. So true! God will get us through.

God also does another thing. Puts the most wonderful friends in our lives. Someone once told me a friend is someone who you could call up at 2am and say 'I'm stuck' and they would drive across town and pick up you. Or if your having a hard time sit on the phone with you until late into the night even if they have to get up early the next morning.

I always hoped to be that friend. I love my friends. When they are hurt, in trouble, or scared I like to be the shoulder they need.

Well in the past couple weeks we have been shown how awesome our friends are. God has truly blessed us with wonderful people in our lives. The couple that watch Little Man while we have church practice on Monday night gave us a generous gift card to Cub. Their daughter just gave us a generous check. We've had friends offer room in their house for us, names of people to help Daddy find a job, and even suggestions on how to help us and where to go.

It is so overwhelming appreciated. We are SO blessed!

I want to take this moment and thank all my friends out there. I don't even think thank you can express how much you all mean to me. You truly are the greatest. I thank God for you all. Your generosity, your prayers mean the world.

Thank you.