I was going to do a post on all the things that I am thankful for....and then this whole day was just amazing!
On Monday I was thinking about my job situation - or lack thereof. I'm trying to just be patient, apply for the opportunities I find and trust that God already has something picked out for me and that sooner or later I'll find it. It's hard not to stress about it though, especially after that nice letter from EI saying that my payments are no officially not coming in anymore. I had applied at Mayfair, which is sort of like a placement agency. They can find you temporary, part time or full time office work and after my interview with them I think we were both feeling very positive about it. So on Monday I had been thinking about all the job possibilities I had applied for and not heard back from and I prayed about it and then Tuesday morning at 8:30am the phone woke us up. It was Mayfair calling about a job they had for me and asking whether I would be available. It's not anything permanent, but it's 4 days of work I wouldn't have had otherwise and it was really cool to get an immediate positive answer like that!
The only downside was that now I had to get off my butt and look for some childcare!! This seemed even more daunting, because now I had to go interview strangers to look after my precious difficult children!! Today I had 2 interviews and the last one was really great. She has a 8 1/2 month old boy, lives in a mobile home not too far from us (closer would be nice, but you can't have everything!!) and her rates seem to be reasonable. She was also super friendly and seemed like a happy person. I'm so relieved to have found someone so quickly and these 4 days of work will be a perfect trial period for both of us to make sure that it works!
The other major thing was that today I had someone come to look at one of our rooms that we rent out. We had one of our renters move out at the end of June and the other one left at the beginning of July and although it was nice to have the whole house to ourselves, it really helps to have that extra financial contribution from those renters! This was a guy and his girlfriend and they wanted to live in the bigger of the 2 rooms with their 2 small cats. I wasn't sure they would all fit with their stuff, but they seemed excited about it and right now they're out getting the damage deposit!! It's really hard not to stress about stuff, especially when it has to do with money and bills and payments but it's also amazing how God can work things out. We have a couple people interested in the other room too so it's just possible we'll have both rooms filled for August which would be really great!!
On our way home from our 2 interviews with the dayhomes we stopped at Mac's for a slushie (partly because I wanted one and partly because I forgot Keira's soother and she was letting me know) and they had the Crystal Light one there!! I love slushies but hate all that sugar and empty calories. A couple years ago 7-11 had the Crystal Light slushies, but they didn't keep them because there wasn't enough demand so I'm happy to see that Mac's now has them!
I'll post more pictures soon, maybe in the next week. I have 2 hours of training for those 4 days of work and Keira's got an appointment to get her picture taken at Walmart tomorrow and then Saturday is her party! So I'm off right now to get some dinner and make some cupcakes!!
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