Changes!

I have some exciting news! I will first start with a little background and then tell you sort of like when tv programs advertise something and they place it at the very end so that you will be forced to watch all the way to the end. haha, I'm just kidding of course but doesn't that drive you nuts?

Anyways, my husband Dale has been a truck driver since he was 19, he's 40 now. He has been working with the company the last company for 13 years driving on the highway, now I should clarify what "on the highway" means, for truck driving families this does not always mean the same thing. Our friend 'D' works "on the highway" but he is gone for months at a time, his family really only see him at major holidays, I can't imagine what that must be like. Dale's "on the highway" means driving 2 trips a week to Alberta, he has gone as far as Winnipeg, so he's home sometimes 1 night during the week and then 1 or 2 nights on the weekend depending on how the week goes. We have been looking for something else for him to do, another place to work or something that would allow him to be home more for a long time and have been praying about it for years. Well something finally came up about 3 weeks ago, about the same time I started going through my health issues. A friend of my Dads (my dad is a mechanic) had a tow truck and had it for sale, and he had a contract with the kidney foundation hauling away cars that people donated to them for scrap. Well we bought it and Dale is on his second week doing it! He is home every night and we are all loving it!!! We are trying to get more contacts and Dale is handing out business cards everywhere so hopefully that will get our name out there and Dale will get even more work.

Mommies can't get sick

So I have been a little out of the loop for a while, I saw that my last post was on the 7th of Feb, here it's the 24th! Oh well I have a good excuse, I have not been doing too well lately. It started in the middle of January and I'm still fighting with it, I am supposed to be taking it easy, no housework, no lifting anything more than 4lbs, not too much sitting, no exercise etc so that really limits what I can do. I have had to go to an ambulatory care clinic every day for just over 3 weeks now and that has been hard too, just yesterday they said that I can now come every other day so that is awesome and I go see a surgeon on March 3rd so hopefully I will get some answers then, I'm hoping that I will not have to have surgery of course, then I will be really hooped. So this is why I have not been blogging too much, I've been on the couch watching tv and reading, not that this is necessarily a bad thing but when your house is falling apart around you it can get to you. Now I'm not the best house keeper to begin with, I really struggle in that area but this was getting to be a bit much for me. I was home alone with the girls and Dale was on the road so it was just me, no one was coming to help me with the house so I had to do it anyways, so how does one go about cleaning and tidying up when your mind is fine but your body is screaming NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?? Well I just did what I could as I could and tried to make the best of it. When Dale did come home from his trips he would unload and reload the dishwasher and help with meals a bit but that was about it, I did cry to him about how badly the floor needed to be vacuumed and he did do that, so that was good. Dale has a very traditional idea of the men and women roles in the home and so he really hates helping out in this way, this has been quite difficult for me since I got sick because I feel guilty asking him for help.

Though all of this I have seen the Lords hand in our lives, I have an amazing friend who has made sure we've got meals, several others have given us meals too and Alexa's school even gave my friend $40 for her to go to M&M's to get us some meals as well as someone from there has been bringing lunch for Alexa for almost 3 weeks now! Amazing! I am so thankful! When you are going through something that is very difficult you will find out who you can rely on in tough times and sometimes it's surprising who it is, God has used my friend and I don't know if she even knows it, she has been an amazing blessing to me and there is no way I could ever repay her for her kindness.

Out Sick

Hello my lovelies! I have been out sick for 3 weeks now, I'm not better but I thought that I would just pop by and say a quick hello. I have had an infection from a rash and I had the check up today and they said I'm doing too much: no running, exercising, picking up my kids, picking up laundry baskets, bending, vacuuming, all I'm allowed to do is walk, stand and lay down and dust....dust? lol I thought that was funny. So I've been mostly out of commission for 3 weeks now and 3 weeks ago is when my Christmas tree was going to come down, guess what? It's still up and I want it gone!!!! But I can't do it, so I watch everyone drive by on the street and go "they must be laughing at me right now" hahaha, oh well, at least I can enjoy the pretty lights a bit longer. Through this I have been so blessed by a few friends, Carole has been awesome, she has taken Brooklynn for me several days and she organized several moms from Alexa's school to provide meals for us, what an incredible blessing!!! Thank-you so so much!!!!!!!!!!!