Family Update!

I know I have been quiet on the blog...but you know how the holidays can demand your attention to family and fun stuff that is away from the computer. :) I have lots of things I have wanted to blog. I will TRY to do a little blogging before Christmas, but forgive me if I don't. :)

I wanted to update about unemployment. I just feel I am to share this. If you have read here long you know that in the spring we learned of Matthew's job loss. Months went by and he found another job. He worked that one for three months and then that one too went away. We have been deep in the midst of holding onto the promise God has given us, that he wants us to prosper and that he will not leave us to face this scary time alone. We held fast, and I myself had moments in the hardest weeks of unemployment where I shouted to God to DO SOMETHING!

Matthew went away for a week because God did answer that call and he has a job!!! He is back home and working. We are so excited to see those first checks. I have never been so excited to pay bills! HA HA!

Hold on dear bloggy friends, even when the storm becomes just too much. Hold on and know that in the end you didn't give up on God!

Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Co-op Time

I wasn't going to sign the children up for our co-op this year because I don't quite know how the house situation will work out. Most likely we will still be in this house, we should know in a few weeks. But if we aren't we will not be staying in Louisiana. I want to move where it will be easier to train as a midwife if that is what happens. Really, we are FINE, we are ready to go where we are taken by God. :) It will not be the end of the world. I actually look forward to seeing which way God takes it. ;) Be praying for us!

Oh yes, back to co-op, my friend would not let us back out of co-op. She was going to pay for it herself. I couldn't do that because I couldn't stand the thought of her paying and we wouldn't finish it out through April. I put in a call to our parents and they each paid half of the fee for the boys to have co-op from September - April. :)

My boys are OVER the moon. They have seen God work in such BIG ways this summer and it just warms my heart to see their faith building. I love it! They had just been telling me that they wanted lessons in the things they were into. Elijah has prayed for guitar for about 2 years now. I just couldn't wing it each time he would bring it up. He wants to be a christian singer and travel with his family around to other churches. That boy needed guitar. Remy has been intrigued by any show on tv that shows dancing. He has such great core muscles and he shocks me with how he can move! I mean he is great! He would get my ballet tapes and look at dance books and teach himself. I told them both to pray this summer for the money to do those lessons. I never thought to have them pray for a better place to take those lessons. :)

So my friend Kayla kept on me about co-op. I really LOVE this gal! I love her family and I know she knew she could get me on board again this year with a push. It was really sweet because our family had been asking HOW to help us and then they could. :)

Elijah by way of co-op is taking GUITAR, having board game time, an astronomy class centered on the creator, and an endangered animals course.

Remy is taking health, outside free play, geography, and BALLET!

They will be able to take these classes once a week from September - April. The price was so GREAT and I am so thrilled for them. :) Thankyou God for answered prayers that come from my children. :) What a sweet summer this has turned out to be. I am so happy our children have been able to travel this road of hardship and to see how even in the darkest hours, God hears our pleas, and even finds the time to answer the smallest of our desires. Wow! Powerful stuff going on in our home.

Remy is so excited about co-op and he asks me daily if it is tomorrow. I finally started a count down with him. He drew this one day during school time. It is him in dance class. The instructor is the one saying good and for some reason the whole family is in the class! Hee hee I love the little pirouettes that we are all doing...check out the legs.

Answer to Prayer!

Heavenly Father has held us so closely these past weeks. I have to give thanks to him in front of you all. What is stranger is that while I am usually a crazy person when it comes to these kinds of issues, I found such peace and help from those around me. I have NEVER felt so blessed in all of my life. To see God working in our lives in such an intimate way has not only been good for us, the parents, but the children have learned is big ways.

My husband has a job and while it does not equal what he has lost and it will not pay everything, it is more than unemployment, and it helps with the insurance. Having a type one diabetic child and paying cobra is not fun. This is a huge weight off of us. We only have to pay cobra for 3 more months. Be in prayer for us in this.

My husband is still working on a super neat plan for our lives and it is still just so new and I will share it when I can more fully. Be in prayer for my Mattmos while he works hard to make a dream a reality. Pray for guidance!

We are okay! We will make it!

We are very behind in bills, we haven't had normal pay for a long time, and then no pay for a long time. We are looking forward to the back unemployment. I can't wait to grocery shop! We have been living off of NOTHING! But we have always had enough. :)

Birdie Fun with Robins

Elijah started studying robins a few days ago in school.

And he planted a "sensitive plant".

Remy read a play about Robin parents and little baby robin birds.

He made a mobile.

He used flys to help him in math.

It is hard to see what this is a photo of. I drew a cookie and he was able to put a vanilla chip on the cookie for each spelling word he spelled correctly. And then he ate them up. ;)

He studied his hand in science and then he drew it.

Remy also drew this cute monster for me. :)

We had a great week of school with daddy home and now we are up for a wonderful weekend with my childhood friend Heather and her family. Lots of bloggy goodness for me to update with come Monday. :)

Matthew had the call from Target FINALLY, we are now waiting that call for the second interview! We so need this!

End of Week One: Life after Unemployment

I am going to journal this journey or ours quickly and simply. I feel led to do so. I know that we are not the only ones at this time facing this. I hope to share the goodness that will come from these days, the blessings, the victories! I know that we know not who is watching us...and who may come to know the peace of Lord God through our trials. I refuse to allow the enemy any amount of smug victory! My father is so very wonderful, so very magnificent, so very in control!

Thursday, April 16th, 2009
End of day one: Life after unemployment. Today was okay, I cried, I laughed, I was renewed in my faith by many sweet and lovely women who I love dearly. I love you all, you know who you are. ;) The biggest thing right now is insurance for Elijah and how to handle that! PRAY for that before anything else! Secondly pray for a good job with benefits to pop up BEFORE the last day matthew has at work. Thanks, guys.

Friday, April 17th, 2009
End of Day Two: Life After Unemployment. We have had some really neat things happen today. It may be HUGE, but we will not know until next week. I feel this weird peace about it, I have only felt this feeling a few times in my life and each time the thing that God was speaking to my heart came true. This is so GOOD, that I just am being convicted of having such little faith. I mean, this would be wonderful! PRAY!

Saturday, April 18th, 2009/Sunday, April 19th, 2009

The weekend was HARD! You can't do anything...we now live for the week Monday-Thursday. I had some bad moments, I cried a lot, I worried, etc. Matthew was off of work on Sunday and we just did the normal thing. We needed to purchase dogfood and house supplies and he spent time applying online to various places.

Monday, April 20th, 2009
End of day 5: Life After Unemployment. We had some pretty good news this morning. We are getting a deal on cobra for the next 9 months. Instead of having to pay $1,200 a month to keep up our insurance we will pay $425 I think is what Matthew said. That is HUGE...and then after 9 months it will be back up to 1200 a month. We will have a gap of 45 days in coverage from his last day at work to his first day on COBRA. We are buying insulin and supplies for Eli now and at the end again so we can make it through. We are just praying to be able to afford that payment to COBRA each month and make our bills. It felt so good this morning to know it was Monday and we could once again DO something or KNOW something. I am not looking forward to the weekend. *sigh* We also have some huge things in the works in the J-O-B area. I really just can't speak about it until I know for sure. I feel I may break the magic...hee hee... We are good everyone, keep praying for us!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

End of Day six: Life After Unemployment. Matthew was off of work today and gosh those days off aren't as fun anymore. :( He spent it looking up the details he will need at a meeting on Thurs. and applying online to various jobs. I hope to have some news by the end of the week. I did get the garden bed ready for the plants and other than that we were at home. I feel like everything is taking forever and I feel the dreaded time of Matthew applying for crap jobs approaching us. I think I need to put on some praise music like my Grandmother advised! It is getting hard to talk to someone and they just feel so bad for you. I don't know...it makes me feel strange. No one has the same voice when I talk to them anymore. My grandfather was really different. *sigh* Tomorrow will be one week. It feels like forever but then again, not long enough.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

End of Day 7: Life After Unemployment: Matthew has a really super important meeting tomorrow morning. Just pray it is blessed and ordained by GOD! The way it has come about it just SO neat and we feel very blessed. I will update you guys tomorrow *if* I know anything super neat. I am very nervous and so very hopeful. I am a little anxious that we are nearing the end of the week and the dreaded weekend days that DRAG on and on and on when you are out of work. I did receive wonderful news today about a friend of mine whose husband has been out of work for a while. Her husband has some new work and it came just in time for them! Thankyou, Jesus! I hope to be the bearer of great news next week when I post updates. :) Pray for us with all of your might.