Breaking News~

So, my life is officially being turned upside down. Thankfully I'm OK with it this time. Sam resigned his position as a youth pastor and this morning he had an interview at a group home. He got the job. HOLY COW! Our lives are about to change completely. We have been praying about change for quiet some time. And now it's finally here. I have to say that this is a bittersweet feeling. We are hoping to have an open ended relationship with our pastor so that we leave on good terms. Our pastor has even said that he will have Sam come back and preach sometime. Well, that is our goal. It is going to be difficult to leave our church family. I have no idea where we will go. It's hard not knowing where we will take Justus to church. He loves our church! Especially on Sunday mornings! January would have been the four year mark.

As for the new job I think it's going to be a HUGE adjustment. Sam will be working as an 'alternate' to the house parents. Basically he works with them as a team so that they can have their own family time. House parents have the hardest job because they are ultimately responsible for their cottage. Each cottage has up to eight boys at a time. They are troubled kids who have problems at home or school, that kind of thing.

As an alternate Sam will work 14 days a month (twenty four hour days). They usually do three to five days at a time but he could do up to seven days at a time. Again, HOLY COW! The longest I have gone without Sam is five days & it's not pretty when daddy isn't around! However, he only works ten minutes from home and we can go see him. During the day when the kids are at school he's free to hang out. And the boys (at work) go to bed at 9:30 during the week so we could go see daddy before bed as well.

I am nervous about all the changes but excited as well. My brother & SIL accepted a position as house parents in a different cottage. So they will be moving out at the end of the month. Everything in our life is changing! All these changes have occured in the past week. When God moves lookout!

ps~ we will still be involved in our church for a few more weeks, we're not leaving them out in the cold.