Hello Family and Friends!

This is definitely a work in progress. Roger and I are trying to catch up with the internet world. This is supposedly a team effort, he is so much more computer savy than I am. I cannot do this on my own. I am stepping out first and hopefully he will jump in and add graphics and pictures and links, etc.

It will be interesting to see what we can pull together, because we are such a salt and pepper team. We compliment one another, but do not always work things out the same way! For example, he is a temple worker, I am a family history buff. Ultimately the same goal, different departments. Such has been our life together...

We were laughing the other day, I am always in jeans and he doesn't even own a pair. The one day, I dress up to go shopping, he didn't.

So wish us luck and send us advice, I think we could really use it!



Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Spoiled girl... are you murmuring again?

It was the worst of times, it was the best of times...
Well maybe not the worst - but hard! 
Am I murmuring again???

Now that Roger's health is improving I can stop worrying so much about him and it's time for me to get to work...  Yes, real work.  I am looking for a job!  WOW!  Nothing like a dinosaur trying to fit indiscreetly into the modern world. 

Every day I tell myself...
 
'I can do this! 
This is important! 
Everything is going to be okay!'

Then I start looking for jobs, filling out applications and going to interviews.  By the end of the day I think I am lying to myself. 
Murmur... Murmur...

My head is screaming 'you don't fit in, you don't belong here'...  And in many ways, this is true.  My heart is at home.  I am not a career minded woman.  My favorite job is 'Volunteer'. 
Murmur... Murmur...

The hardest job in the world is job-hunting... No one would argue with that. Nobody is job hunting for the joy of it.   Once hired, things will get easier!
 
It's not that I'm afraid of work.  I like to keep busy.  I am afraid of a job.   I know that when I start a job, it can become a priority and I don't like it when home takes second place.  It happens so easily to me, so quickly... 

But there is no other choice, we need the income.  It will be for the best!  And I know that I am not alone, small prayers are answered every day.  I have many blessings to count and there is a reason for everything.  So I will continue to pray and tell myself...

'I can do this!
This is important!
Everything is going to be okay!'
 
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Thankfully,
the best of times comes as a buffer with the hardness of life. 

Welcome Elise!
 
Healthy, beautiful little girl!!!
Joy of my joy!

She is a reminder that life is full of experiences that warm your heart one day, and test your strength another.  That all bad things come to an end and true happiness is eternal.

I don't get everything I want, poor spoiled girl...
but I do have everything that I need!
 
No more murmuring!!!