One day during the summer I decided to go to the local library to find a good book to read. While I as there I saw an ad posted on all of the checkout desks that said that the library was looking for a page to work there. Since I had been looking for a job and filling out many applications I figured that it wouldn't hurt if I went ahead and filled out another application. It was a whim thing. Luck for me a few weeks later I got a call asking for an interview from that same library. I guess they liked me because a couple days later I got asked to join their team and was given my work schedule. Needless to say I was praising Jesus for the whole thing money is tight during the first year of marriage. Not so lucky is the fact that not even a week after I started my first job classes started as well. Well what can I say: when things happen they happen in twos (at least).
I want to tell you all a little story about a day that I had recently, yesterday in fact! I'll start where my day always seems to start: Six am on the dot with a mouth breathing Isabella standing right beside my bed. Anyone else have one of those type of children? The ones that wake at the same absurd hour of the early morning? Both of my children have inherited that lovely trait from their father, not from me! Anywho, I could sense that she was there; standing beside me, staring at me, willing me to wake up. You know, that ability to feel someone's presence before you actually see them? Yep, that is how I wake up most mornings since Matthew left on his deployment. And so the day started! Conner was already awake as well, I could hear him 'talking' to himself in his bedroom. So in we went to get Conner up and changed to bring downstairs with us. Only problem, Conner woke up on the wrong side of the bed on this particular morning. So ...
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