Well, it's a new school year and boy, do we have a lot of changes, some obstacles to hurdle but NOTHING is impossible with God on our side. We're homeschooling four of our five children this year, with ages ranging from 5 to 11, kindergarten through seventh. We're at a new church. And we have a walking 10 month old who is curious and eager to follow his older siblings around all day long who I'll have to try and keep up with, plus, the biggest change of all: the absence of my husband for the most part.

Due to lay offs at work and the near non-existance of employment in our surrounding areas, we have had to take a different avenue when it comes to jobs. So as a last resort he got a job as a truck driver and starting the 10th of August will be gone for nearly a month for training and then his life on the road begins. I'm not sure how this will affect our family, our five children, him or me.

Me and the boys will be taking on a bunch of different responsibilities that we're not used to doing and even the girls will be pitching in a lot more with laundry and extra household work not counting school. For all I know, my house will be turned into a total wreck by the time he comes home!!! :) It's not something that we want but something that we have to do. But who knows? Maybe God has something in store for my family that I'm not seeing right at this moment but I have to keep my faith in He who has NEVER FAILED ME and trust that HE knows best for me.

I'm hoping that this will help me to be a little more independent because in the past I have wondered how my life would be should something tragic happen to my husband. That probably seems a little depressing to think about but it's something that no wife wants but something that happens everyday and would change lives totally if the unthinkable happened. I am a stay at home mother who knows nothing but taking care of children and the home. I would have to leave my children and go out into the workforce. Would my children have to be put into the public school system? Oh, I shudder to think of that.

Nevertheless, on the 9th of August he is leaving for school. I think I'm kinda still in shock or perhaps I'm still waiting on that miracle that his old job will call him and offer him his job back. Last week I recieved a call from a neighbor who had caught a burglar or a peeping tom on the outside of my house just after I had gone upstairs to bed. And then last night my husband and I stayed up a little longer than normal and were sitting in the living room watching a bit of tv when we heard this noise outside my living room windows. When William turned the porch light on and opened the door someone who'd been crouching at the window stood and ran off. That really scares me, especially now that my husband is leaving in about a week. I don't even like to think of it.

But regardless of my fears, I think I'm looking forward to the challenge and we'll meet it head-on with eyes and minds and hearts open with the hopes and prayers that we'll only come out stronger in the end because of this. Any other truck drivers' wives out there? I'd love to talk to you.

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