Glitter Giggles and Blessings: The last day

Today was Neal's last day at the Northeastern Center. It is bitter-sweet. More sweet than bitter though!!! Not exactly how we expected this job of 4 years to end but we'll take it. It was hard. Hard on Neal and hard on the family. He won't miss the solitude, being the only person working with a house full of clients. We won't miss the long shifts. A 24 hr one on Saturdays with him getting home at 1:00 am Sunday morning made for very sleepy Sundays...for years. I won't miss him being on third shift 2 nights a week, I feel safer when he is here, especially with tornado season coming up! (When there were just two girls I figured I could grab one under each arm and run for it...and maybe even with 3 if I got creative but it scared the snot outta me to think about having to get all 4 girls awake and carry them outside and down the ladder into the basement in the dark, in a storm, by myself.) The unusual schedule made it hard to keep things going around the house, a regular bedtime will be new and wonderful!

So what's next? We don't know exactly. We have some ideas... Neal loves literature. He loves teaching. He is good at both. So, he is thinking about Taylor University's on-line Transition into Teaching program. Would you pray with us for wisdom on the finances for this? We already have big school bills we are still trying to pay off and feel uncomfortable with going into more debt.

We knew what was going to happen today and to make a difficult day more enjoyable we celebrated! Celebrated the fact that God is in control and He is our Jehovah Jireh, our provider. Celebrated a new path that is before us, a new way of life. It may at first seem "too" light hearted for the circumstances but I guess it was our way of dealing with it. We had a party!