A Great Quote

I wanted to share a quote from a book I am reading. It is from "Out of Control and Loving It" by Lisa Bevere. Hope you are having a good day!

"You can spend your whole life figuring out why you are messed up and still be messed up once you've figured it out."

Sad Hubby-Sick Son

Today was supposed to be a wonderful, life-changing day. This is the day classes began at the seminary.

Is hubby there? No. Hubby is not starting seminary this fall nor this spring. We will be praying he starts fall 2009. I keep telling hubby to trust God's timing--believe His timing is best. And look at it this way, another year to find the right job, save more money, and get mentally prepared for this challenge. I'm saying all this to hubby, but all he feels is another big, fat disappointment in his life. Another failure.

To add to this, our son is sick. Now, our son does not get sick often but when he does it is usually a doozy. He has already missed two days of school and it looks like he will miss the rest of the week as well. He is running a high fever and is at times delirious. He got up in the middle of the night and tried to go outside. Another time he got up and opened the fridge. When you try to talk to him, he just babbles nonsense. He is saying words, but it does not make sense. If it wasn't so sad, it'd be funny.

Because I am working three days a week now (at the preschool), hubby had to take off work and stay home with our son. Yes, I could have taken off, but it's only the second week of school! I hated to do that, so hubby agreed to stay home. He said it was almost ironic that he was sitting at home on the day he was hoping to be sitting in a classroom.

This house is depressing.

We Survived!

We survived the first week of school! It went well. Unfortunately my daughter had a sinus infection and did not feel too good. Even so, she went into her classroom without any tears or hesitation. Thank God! My class is going to be a good one I think. I have eight children, 4 boys and 4 girls. I have some really talkative girls and some really quiet boys! They are all unique in their own way, and I cannot wait to get to know them throughout this year and see them grow into kids who are ready for "big school!"

I work three mornings a week from 8 - 12 and sometimes I will have to stay until 1:30. When I get home I immediately try to get daughter down for a nap so that I can get on the computer and start my transcribing. To say the least, I am tired at night, but it's a good tired.

The extra money will come in handy too. I get paid twice a month and we decided to put one of those checks into our savings account and the other check toward hubby's truck note. This is our plan. Maybe we can stick to it. As I've mentioned in the past, the winter time is our hardest time financially because hubby works absolutely no overtime. There may be a month or two where we have to use my checks just to make it through the month. That will be okay too I guess.

I really want to thank God for this job. He provided it--and I'm so thankful.

Now we're wondering if He will provide a job for hubby. As you know, hubby wanted to start seminary this fall. However, that will not happen. Classes start next week and hubby has no job to accommodate his class schedule. No, this seminary does not offer night classes or online classes. So hubby needs a night job in order to go to class during the day. We're praying he can start in the spring or at least by next fall.

I would like to ask all my readers to click over to my friend Michael's blog, http://the-confessions-of-a-porn-addict.blogspot.com and give him some encouragement. We all need it now and then, don't we?

I had a very, very interesting comment posted on an old post of mine. I am going to be posting in response to that very soon--as soon as I figure out exactly what I want to say.

I hope everyone had a good week and a good worship service this morning. This is the second week I've posted on a Sunday. It's really the only good time I have to do it. Hubby and daughter are asleep and son is playing at a friend's house.

Thanks for reading,

Amy

"You'll Fit Right In"

'You'll Fit Right In Mrs. Amy's class!" That's what my door says on top with a puzzle on the bottom with a child's name on each piece. I guess it's a cute idea, but I had to use different colored letters and various sizes of letters because of availability. I think it would look better in all black, but there were not enough black letters to say all that.



This door looks pretty good until you walk down the hall and see some of the works of art on the other doors. Wow, some people are really talented!



The parents come to the school today to meet me and see their child's room. Then I meet the children tomorrow but they do not stay all day (just an hour). Tuesday is our first "official" day of preschool.

BTW, yesterday was mine and hubby's 11th anniversary! I cannot believe it has been 11 LONG years already! We did absolutely nothing. And I mean nothing. That's okay though. We celebrated last year for our 10th. We'll probably do something fun again for the 15th. But the 11th just kind of got passed over. We were together all day and although hubby has been pretty grumpy lately, it was overall a good day.

Have a great Lord's Day!

Have I Told You?

It just dawned on me that I do not think I have told you what new "adventure" I am starting tomorrow!

I have agreed to teach 4-year-old preschool at a church here in town. I am very excited about this! I graduated from college with a degree in Elementary Education so this is going back to my roots so to speak. I have not taught in a long time. The last time I did so was 2-year-old Mother's Morning Out, and no offense to 2-year-olds, but I was mainly a glorified babysitter. I believe (and earnestly hope) that I will actually be teaching the 4-year-olds and getting them ready for "big school." I will have eight little ones, and I have been praying for the eight calmest 4-year-olds in this entire world to be in my class! I hope this is one prayer I get answered! BTW, my 3-year-old daughter will be at the same preschool in her own class. This is the main reason I am doing this. I wanted her to be socialized, but I wanted it to be tuition-free :)

My stress-out is this: I have to decorate my door. Something cutesy, you know? You should also know I am not a cutesy sort of girl. At all. But, guess what? My hubby is actually good at that sort of thing. ( I know, who would have thought?) He has brainstormed with me and we have come up with an idea (with a little help from online examples as well). I don't want to tell you about it yet. I am going to take a picture of my door once it is completed and post it here. Please be gentle with your opinions. I've never had to do a door before. I hate bulletin boards, so a door seems overwhelming!

Anyway, to switch gears for a minute, something is in my eye. No really. Something has been in there since Sunday night and it is getting to me. It is not really painful, but it is quite annoying. I have an eye appointment tomorrow. The problem is I am not covered on hubby's vision insurance. There is no telling how much this will cost. I am praying that whatever this is will heal on its own so we don't have to spend the money. For some reason, that verse about removing the plank from your own eye before trying to remove your brother's speck keeps coming to mind........

Love y'all.