We met each other 2 weeks ago, but it's really flown by! The past 4-6 weeks have been crazy to say the least. I started my new job, which is going well, but I am still looking for a 2nd job to get more hours. We had some amazing spring-like weather, and also our first snowfall. I am also starting a new 'business' I guess you could say. I have decided to make my passion into a money making venture. (More to come on this later!) Who knows, I may do so well that I can be the stay-at-home mommy that I said I would never be!(No, I'm not preggo, but just looking ahead). Anyway, life is ever-changing, and I have decided to ditch my plans for my life and go with God's plans. I plan to no longer fight what is, but just let it be. This doesn't mean I just plan to sit and wait for God to do something grand, but to listen to what he is guiding me to do.
In this new year there are so many things I want to accomplish. EW and I are ready to take this year and make it the best year together yet. Things have been down for so long due to mostly finances (ie: I haven't had a job for almost a year, I had surgery, we have accumulated debt because I didn't have a job for so long and now have to pay up the @$$, and of course, my Gigantic amount of student loans that have NOT gotten me a job) Whew...that depressed me just typing all that. So we may be a little behind the curve in the whole getting our lives together thing, and we may have to spend the next 5 years in our little apartment, and our child(ren) may have to spend their first few years in that tiny apartment also, but I know it will all be ok. My parents, grandparents, ancestors did it, and so can we. Honestly, that's what gets me through my days. Instead of falling into a heaping mess of tears and snot when I find out we can't pay the bills this month, I recite Bible passages. "Be still and know that I AM God. God will not give you more than you can bear. God will not forsake thee." And the big one: "God will provide." And boy has he! I can't tell you how blessed we are! We have an amazing church that we are becoming members of, and they have been such a huge support for us. I am so very thankful God has put them in our lives.
I have so many great pictures from the past 2 weeks, that I thought I would do a 'camera dump' and just add a few on here.
For New Year's Eve, my friend Kristen from my year of teaching was able to come and visit! We were invited to EW's brother & sister-in-law's house for a little celebration. We love hanging out with them and their friends; they are all so very nice and we have tons of fun!
Kristen and I
EW and I
Happy New Year (Chicago station)
Some played a game where you tasted different beers
and had to say which was which. EW's turn.
Kevin and Meredith
(EW's brother and his girlfriend)
We got 6in. of snow Thursday.
It was Bandit's first big snow. She LOVED it!
It's hard to get her inside.
She likes jumping in the deep snow.
And of course rooting around it in too!
Hope everyone is staying warm and healthy!
-Brina
1 comment:
Cute pictures! New Years was a lot of fun! Thanks for coming!
Love, Rachel
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