Friday the 13th and Valentines Day!!!

Yesterday was Friday the 13th and while I am not a supersticious person it seemed that the day was starting off on a bad note. I had a VERY busy day and had a lot of things to get done in a limited amount of time. First at work the drivers that were suppose to pick up the guys at my job and take them to work, did not show up till late so I was running behind from the start, I had to get home pick up Darin, get the car serviced, pick up Valentines for the kids ( sorry they will be late), be to a meeting by 12 noon, then be to a training by 3pm and then to back to work by 8pm, the thing is I hadn't had a shower in almost a week ( I really needed one) and I hadn't eaten since lunch the day before. So this is how it went.. I finally was able to leave work by 9:20 and arrived home by a quarter to 10, where I quickly fell into tears (was overwhelmed and hormonal at the sametime) Darin consoled me and we hurried and did our couples prayer and headed out the door for Big O tires by 10:15, in which they told us it wouldn't be to long, so we went across the street to the store to mail some bills and buy Valentines, when we were done we went back across the street and it seemed everyones car was done but ours, so we waited and waited and finally at about 11:20 Darin asked when it would be done they said soon, they had to go out and get a filter, we got done at 11:35 and headed to Ogden for our meeting, we showed up there just in time, at about 2:10 I am getting nervous (our meetings never lasts longer then 2 hours), I have to be back in Layton for my training by 3, 10 minutes later we are done and on our way, I hadn't eaten so we stopped at A&W and then Darin dropped me off at my CPR training at 3:05. There was only 3 of us there so we figured it would go fast, finally at 6:35 we were done, Darin took me home I jumped in the bath and was done and ready to leave for work by 7:30. As you can tell Friday the 13th was a very BLESSED day for me. Today I woke up at work to Snow (YUCK) and it has been snowing all day, me and one of the guys from my work went home so I could make Sugar Cookies for Darin's home teaching families, Darin bowled with the guy from my work while I made the cookies, as we were getting ready to head back to work Darin surprised me with one of my Valentines presents, a Build a Bear tiger he named Yobo, I loved it, now I am back to work and when I get off to night at 6pm we are going to the Brazilian Grill, it should be wonderful! Life is great and I am so grateful for all of those who have shown me Love throughout my life

Finding the Silver Lining!

This last month I have been blessed with experiencing some fairly interesting and stressful things at work and have been doing a lot of soul searching as to why? I think in one of my recent posts I mentioned that I had had my schedules changed the same week for both jobs, what this did was basically put me working 6 days a week and having virtually no time during those days with my sweet husband except enough time Monday - Friday to maybe have breakfast and say prayers. What I didn't mention was that with his parents coming home in about 3 1/2 weeks, we had been praying and trying to decide what we were going to do when they get home, we have fasted and prayed and both have came up with the feeling that we definately need to move out and move some distance away and the place we felt inspired to do so is the Provo/Orem area. The problem is, with the economy the way it is, finding new jobs (difficult being so far away and having virtually no waking hours to do so) and finding the time to move our stuff. I have felt rather overwhelmed and even have broken down in tears lately (almost daily) which had brought me to the point of asking myself what is it the Lord wants me to learn from this experience? In one of my jobs my manager has decided to step down and there has been a great deal of pressure for me to take on her job, well this last week while she was out of town I have been given the opportunity to fill in for her while she has been on vacation (what an experience). This is what I have come up with:
1. The Lord wants me to trust him and do as he asks
2. The Lord wants me to realize that I do not have to over-work myself to make others happy
3. No amount of money is worth taking me away from my family
4. When you get to the point where I am there is nothing to lose from standing up for myself and thus I refuse to be threatened or walked on at work anymore
5. A dollar more and hour ($9.25) is no where near enough to take on a Manager position.