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It's just Thursday, but I feel like I have lived two weeks in four days. Yesterday I listened helplessly as a friend weeped on the phone, lamenting the loss of a good friend. I wanted to be in Central Oregon so we could cry together. Comfort one another. Have tea. A homeschooling mother of four went home to be with the Lord after three years of courageous fighting. She was precious and taught all of us some pretty invaluable lessons. She will be missed. On Monday I was reminded of the dark days our family lived through 8 years ago when Chris' dad died unexpectedly. My sweet friend's father-in-law died on Monday, her grandmother had died just a few days earlier. Such loss, such grief. Again I wanted to be there. To help. To comfort. I could do little more than pray and offer words of encouragement. Watching my friends grieve and hurt so much has really put my little situation into perspective. I have experienced loss and losing a job just doesn't compare. Being unemployed is easy....especially when you remember what it was like when you were walking through the process of grief, through darker days. So like I said it is only Thursday, but it feels like mid February. I have been throughly enjoying having Chris home everyday. We have been spending some good time together as a family. We stay up late, sleep in a little. Eat when we want, do school when we want, etc. We are getting caught up on LOST thanks to Netflix. Chris and I snowshoe and go on little dates. I could get used to this. The weather has also been most excellent. Winter seems to have taken a hiatus. We are seeing spring road and weather conditions. Yesterday it was 50 degrees. Winters like these make for mean summers full of fire. So what about the fact that you have no income right now? Yeah...I haven't forgotten. Things are really starting to move. We have a couple of excellent leads in Virginia. Chris has an interview this morning and one tomorrow morning. Both of which would keep us in Montana. Not here in this house, but in Montana. Closer to Yellowstone. Dirt poor. We have some decisions to make. After Chris' interview this morning we will head off to Bozeman to spend the night. Chris' interview tomorrow morning is at zero dark hours....if he gets to spend the night, we figured we all might as well go. Make a mini-vaca out of it. Friends losing loved ones, fighting the unemployment department, sifting through jobs, locations, budgets, and comforting children opposed to another move makes for a very long week. No biggie:)! So nothing extraoridinary to report. Just life. Life that isn't perfect. Life that isn't all smooth. Life that is in a curve ball season. Just life.
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