Has it really been 6 weeks?

So much seems to happen, sometimes so fast!

The good news is, I've somehow fallen into a wonderful job that is absolutely perfect for me and our current circumstances. I've been on the job about 3 weeks now with ICUC Moderation Services. I get to work at home, and I couldn't possibly ask for more. I love my boss, I love the people I work with, and I am truly blessed to have been given such an opportunity.

Add to that, Don is home! He'll be with us for about a month and we're stoked. He'll be taking leave at the end of the month and I'm so happy! Not sure what we'll be doing but I'm quite certain that at least one day he's on leave I'll get my own day to go do my own thing, whatever that may be. He has a deployment coming up before the end of the year. It's sad, and it's scary, and it sucks - but it is what it is, and it's going to be the last one of his career. Now that I have a job, we were talking earlier today and it's amazing to think that by the time he retires we may very well be out of debt - and able to buy our dream "forever home". All that it takes for us to label our "forever dream home" is a couple of acres and a 30 year mortgage ;). We want land. We want horses. We want to be away from noise and city streets and craziness. I want my children to learn to ride and know what a blessing silence is. There is not enough to go around these days it seems.

The down side of me getting this job is that my church attendance has suffered. We haven't been to services in awhile. I work 6 days a week, so my days off really are spent with the family doing other things together. The kids seem to be just fine with it though, Paige still loves to sing her songs from school about Jesus and she knows He's with us when we say the blessing each night at dinnertime.

Haven't been to the gym much either. But it's still there. We go when we can, but it's been difficult getting my lack-of-planning butt in gear. I'll get there, sooner or later, but for now I'm at the tail end of figuring out how to get the work day, dinner, a work out, and play time all crammed into one day.

We'll figure it out.

We'll get there.

Lord willing.

Thanks for reading :)