Life is hard.....

...when you are three. You're not really a baby anymore but you can't do the things your old siblings can do yet either. Sophie seems to have this problem everyday. She wants to be able to do everything that Abbie and Kaleb do. She doesn't realize that she is smaller and younger. All she really cares about is getting to what they are doing. At the same time she is the one that causes most of the fights. She is very stubborn and and will argue and fight to get her way. Abbie and Kaleb have always been a lot more passive or just whinny but Sophie just gets mad. Then there are the times when she is just her cute little self. We were in the car the other morning listening to Air 1, they were playing "God of Wonders" by Third Day and Sophie chimed in during the chorus singing "You are holy, holy". She was so cute. Of course the funniest thing is to watch her sing along to Thousand Foot Krutch. She gets her head moving and just starts rockin out. I think we may have the next big rock star :)!

When the phone rings

As many of you know I work as the office manager/secretary at the church I attend. I am the main person in the office pretty much all the time. We only have 2 full time pastors and a couple part-time staff and me. I am the person that answers the phone. It amazes me all the different people who call the church. I get your typical telemarketing calls throughout the day. We have our "criminally insane" friend who likes to call at least once a week and we have many benevolence calls. I get a phone call from an old man on occasion telling me our church is going to hell because we use other versions of the Bible besides the King James. I think the calls that tend to get to me after awhile are the benevolence ones. I listen to their story and most of the time I am a pretty easy sell when it comes to all their problems. I am very limited as to what I can do for them. I basically get their name and a phone number to reach them at and pass it on to the person who is in charge of our benevolence. He then checks them out pretty thoroughly before he will even offer help. What bothers me is the people who call a couple times a day after the first time I've talked with them and ask me if I contacted the person who handles our benevolence, or they will have another family member call. They tell me how they need the money by tomorrow or that by noon today they won't have a place to stay. I don't understand why people wait to the last minute or act as if they are the only ones that have the problems. It was actually interesting after Justin lost his job and people would call and I could say I understand because of what I was going through. That would throw people off. The church finally has caller id which I have to say is my favorite thing. Now I can look at a number and know if I do or don't want to talk to the person on the other line. I still generally answer the phone each time it rings but there are a few numbers now that i know I can ignore.

Finally I am going to Blog

I have wanted to get on here and write for some time but I just haven't taken the time or the time hasn't been there. It has been forever since I have written here and many things have changed and many things are still the same. I think that has been what has held me back from writing because I don't know where to start.

Here goes, Justin is working for a friend of ours from church doing tree work. Which he has been extremely busy with the last week and a half since we had remnants of Hurricane Ike come through in the form of a wind storm. He worked almost nonstop from last sunday afternoon till friday night. Our power was out from Sunday afternoon to late Friday. Luckily for us my parents live just 15 minutes away and only lost power for about 6 hours on Sunday. The kids and I spent a lot of time over there, but slept at home. The kids only missed one day of school which was good too. We lost what food I had in our deep freezer in the garage, but other than that we were able to save most everything. We had a few shingles come off the roof but other than that we were really blessed to not have more problems.

Well I think I will just have to stop there for now. My time is short maybe soon I will write more.

Happier things!

As most of you who may have read any of my blog over the last year know that i have been going to Weight Watchers. A few weeks ago was one year but just this week I got to a big goal. This is not my final goal but it was a major one that I wanted to get too. This week I was down 2.6 pounds which put my total at 76.8 pounds. I wanted to get to 75 pounds and I finally did it. I still have 31.2 pounds to get to my goal but I was very excited to reach this goal. It has been a long hard year at times but I am so much happier with how I look and how I feel. As soon as I can I will post a new picture. Recently the lady who lead the Monday night meeting that I attend had to take a leave of absence because of traveling for her main job. We've had a new lady leading the group who just does not do a very good job. I've had several of the people who I have met while attending the meeting tell me that they would love it if I was the leader. I have to reach my goal first but it is something that I have really been thinking about. It would be extra income, but I would love to be able to help others with their weight loss journey.

On another note Justin has received a job offer from the franchise owner of a couple of Donatos in the area. Just pray for guidance as he looks into this and explores a few other things.

I should be scared

I should be scared about the fact that Justin lost his job on Monday. I should be scared that he has no income at this moment. I should be, but the crazy thing is I'm not. Justin has hated his job for so long and has hated working for Donatos for so long that I feel his getting fired was a blessing. There are a lot of extenuating reasons as to why he was fired. There is the one main reason but then there are other things that we figure made this a great reason to let him go. He has filed for unemployment but we don't know yet if he will qualify. He has sent his resume out to several places and is actively looking for a new job. There is one possibility which is with Donatos but on the franchise side and not corporate. The guy who owns several of the franchise Donatos in the area has called Justin and wants to talk with him and see what he can do for him. Justin likes Don and he would be doing something that he already knows, but he isn't sure that is what he wants to do. I am trying really hard not to push him into anything. I just keep praying that the right door will be opened as he sends out his resume and all that God will guide us as to what to do. We need a lot of prayers as we go through this time and all the changes that may come with this.