Thanksgiving day was go go go as always for us. We went to 4 different homes and tried to eat a little at each. When we finally made it home we put up our Christmas tree. By the way never again will I have a pre-lit tree!!! Besides that, we had a great Thanksgiving. We were both stuffed from all the food, but it was all delicious. Brad and I went shopping the day after Thanksgiving and it was chaos. We went to Toy-R-Us first and that was a mistake! The workers were rude, the store was packed, and the checkout line was 2 miles long. That was not a good experience at 5 in the morning!!! Anyway so we got out of there and headed to the mall. We did attempt to go back around 9 and it was still terrible so we left empty handed again. We finished up around 11a.m. and went home. I was able to get all of my Christmas except for 3 things. I will post pictures of the tree soon.
Okay so I bet you are wondering what happened to me. No, I did not fall off the face of the earth! Believe it or not, I am still here. Anyway I have not posted in a while because I have been covered up with school and my 3 jobs. So I thought I would spend the holidays trying to catch up on everything. Of course as we all know the economy is like really down right now and everyone is cutting back. Well Brad works at Mercedes and they have been cutting back since August. They tried to do a buyout and they needed 400 people to take it. Guess what, there was only like 140 people that took it. So they are now strating to force the low senority people to take the buyout! Brad of course is one of those people.
I have really stressed and cried over this, but I talked with God about it Wednesday night before I went to bed and when I got up on Thrusday morning I was not stressed at all. I have yet to cry over it or worry about it since then. I know that God will take care of us and we will make it. We also lost Brad's great-grandmother Monday Dec. 8th. She has been going down hill for about 6 months now and she finally give up. She is in a much better place now! We buried her on Thursday so needless to say this week has been really hard for us.
Through all of this I have been calling to God and he has been there. I used to worry so much, but this time I just layed it all out for God. He is in control and he has the blueprint of our life. Please keep us in your prayers!
