The Good Stuff

All the really great things God is doing in our lives:

1. I trust Him. My trust is greater now than its ever been. I see, up close and personal, how God is caring for me and the boys when we should have really gone off the deep end and fallen through the cracks a while back.

2. We live with my dad. I've had a bit of a rocky relationship with my dad over the years and I think this is allowing us to get closer, get to know one another better. And I couldn't be more grateful that my dad has allowed myself and 2 rambunctious boys to settle in with him. He not only allowed it, but he also is actively helping me to care for the boys. I am blessed.

3. A car. My husband's brother GAVE me a car. He gave it to me. I still can't believe it. Life would have been un-doable with out it. With this car, I have run the errand that allowed us to get medical insurance, done the grocery shopping, get to my job training, soon get to work, get to church, get to the sitter's.......he GAVE it to me. Unbelievable. Grateful for kind and generous brother-in-law.

4. Free babysitting. I am training to be a school bus driver so that I have a decent job, my kids are still with me and I don't have to pay for child care I can't afford. Kids can't come with you to training, and so I have had several people watch my children while I am at training. No one will take money for it. How blessed am I!?

These are just a few of the things I am grateful for...life is definitely stressful, hard, difficult etc. right now, and yet I am still amazed at God's mercy and his blessings. And the PEOPLE - the many, many people who have come alongside and are helping us through this (even you, internet friends, have no idea what a lift it is to read your kind words during tough times).

Anyhow...I am truly blessed, even in (or maybe especially in) the storms.