Mother's Day and Moving
Life has been a blur for the last six weeks or so.
Mother's Day was harder than I'd been expecting it to be. I tried to just focus on Kamden and on the fact that I had a handsome, healthy 4-year-old to spend the day with, but the thought of what it'd be like to have a gorgeous 1-year-old princess to spend it with too kept haunting me. The day itself was nice. All the women who were mothers were recognized as a group during church, and with my dad being the pastor, I had checked well ahead of time to find out if there were going to be any questions singling out specific moms (ie youngest mom, most kids, youngest kid, etc) and knew what to expect.
In the week before Mother's Day, Jeff, Kamden and I moved from our apartment back to my parents' house. It was a hard decision, but one that had to happen. Between problems with adjustments to the GI Bill that wind up causing the total payment to those using it to drop by $300 a month as well as the loss of unemployment income that Jeff was allowed to collect while going to school and working in the work/study program, we wound up suffering an $1100 a month loss to income and had no choice but to relocate. Thankfully, my parents didn't mind allowing us to move back in with them for a few months to get back onto our feet. The move had to happen very, very quickly, but we made the move happen and were mostly settled in by Saturday the 12th.
Jeff is in the process of getting into full time work rather than doing another semester with the work/study program. There's a job with the local VA that looks REALLY promising and it's in a department he spent a semester working in through work/study. Right now we are just waiting to hear the official word one way or the other. He was also given a job offer 3 hours away. We really can't afford to move again, but we are praying about the best decision for our family.
It's definitely been a year...and I'm ready to see some changes for the positive and soon.
Mother's Day was harder than I'd been expecting it to be. I tried to just focus on Kamden and on the fact that I had a handsome, healthy 4-year-old to spend the day with, but the thought of what it'd be like to have a gorgeous 1-year-old princess to spend it with too kept haunting me. The day itself was nice. All the women who were mothers were recognized as a group during church, and with my dad being the pastor, I had checked well ahead of time to find out if there were going to be any questions singling out specific moms (ie youngest mom, most kids, youngest kid, etc) and knew what to expect.
In the week before Mother's Day, Jeff, Kamden and I moved from our apartment back to my parents' house. It was a hard decision, but one that had to happen. Between problems with adjustments to the GI Bill that wind up causing the total payment to those using it to drop by $300 a month as well as the loss of unemployment income that Jeff was allowed to collect while going to school and working in the work/study program, we wound up suffering an $1100 a month loss to income and had no choice but to relocate. Thankfully, my parents didn't mind allowing us to move back in with them for a few months to get back onto our feet. The move had to happen very, very quickly, but we made the move happen and were mostly settled in by Saturday the 12th.
Jeff is in the process of getting into full time work rather than doing another semester with the work/study program. There's a job with the local VA that looks REALLY promising and it's in a department he spent a semester working in through work/study. Right now we are just waiting to hear the official word one way or the other. He was also given a job offer 3 hours away. We really can't afford to move again, but we are praying about the best decision for our family.
It's definitely been a year...and I'm ready to see some changes for the positive and soon.
I'm looking for things to turn around for you too, chica. We will wait on the Lord together
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