Well, well, well...it certainly has been a LONG time since I last posted anything! It was unintended, that's for sure! Summer was great, and after vacation life got somewhat turned upside down. To make a long story short, I was laid off from my job that I had held for nearly 10 1/2 years. It created quite the upheaval in our lives, but it turns out that it was a blessing in disguise. To tell the honest truth, I wasn't happy where I was. It was time for a change. While the change didn't happen the way I wanted to, the steps were all God-ordained and orchestrated. I had a lead on a couple of jobs at the time of being let go. One of them fell through, and the other one took a bit more patience! I feel so fortunate that while I had applied for unemployment and got that ball rolling, the timing worked out where I didn't even get a single check! It was a very trying couple of weeks. I sent out probably close to 30 applications/resume's. During that time, I also had the blessing of being able to do some real, much needed deep cleaning on the house!
In my days at home, I also faced rejection after rejection of the applications that I had submitted. Talk about a blow to one's self-worth! I am so blessed to have an amazing, loving, supportive husband who stands by my side and is my biggest cheerleader. Truth be told, while it was quite the stressful time for us, we were also both completely at peace in our situation. The day that my severance pay was up was the day that I got a phone call from the other lead on a job that I had been waiting for! I started at my new job the next morning. Several hours after that phone call, I received another phone call for an interview, and in the following weeks, received at least half a dozen more phone calls for interviews. Truly, when it rains, it pours! I've been at my new job for 2 months now, and I'm absolutely LOVING it! It is a position that is completely different from my previous job. There's nothing much that I'm doing in this job that really fits into my skill-set from my previous job, and I'm perfectly ok with that. With as much as I don't do so well with change, this is a completely welcome change for me. I gained many, many computer skills in my previous position that I can easily keep up on by just tinkering around on the computer here and there.
While my dream is still to be able to be a stay-at-home momma, right now it's just not feasible financially for us to do so. Hopefully someday that dream will still have a chance at coming true. Through everything that has happened over the last few months, I know that ultimately God has a plan for our lives and orchestrates our steps.
As far as posting here, I hope to be able to get back to more consistent posting again soon! Once the hustle and bustle of the holidays have passed, things should settle down and I can get a more solid routine going again! Until then, from our family to yours, I hope you have a very merry Christmas!
