One Exciting Summer

Jonathan should really be writing this blog, because he had the most wonderful summer. 

Just before school was out Jonathan (my husband) was told that the company that had just bought out the insurance agency he had been working for almost 14 years would no longer be keeping him. We were both very shocked and surprised, because he had been meeting with them for a couple weeks, they had already talked about our health Insurance, how they do business and everything. Then it happened I think it was a Tuesday, he was having a meeting with the powers that be, not thinking about it, everyone in the office was having a one-on-one. Well his one-on-one went SOUTH... He called me and said "Well it's over". I said "What the meeting?", he said, "NO IT'S OVER...", I still did not fully understand..HE said, "My JOB  its OVER!!!"  Well, needless to say, I was very shocked and I cried a LOT.  I was at work and think I scared everyone in my office. They didn't know what was going on, only that I got a phone call and was devastated.. We just brought these two children from Haiti home at Christmas and now my husband looses his JOB really....??  The first thought that came to my mind was that we would have no health insurance. What will we do?????

Thats when the fun comes in.... Jonathan was blessed that he was able to spend the whole summer at home with the kids. We didn't need a baby sitter or arrange for family to help. He became "Mr. Mom".  They would get up in the morning, straighten the house and get ready for their day of fun.  He worked with them on school work to help prepared them for the upcoming year, they went to the library a couple times a week and enrolled in a summer reading program, where they did all kinds of fun stuff and received tickets for the Hot Rod's baseball game.  They went learned to swim at the YMCA and once a week they went to the Kids Movie Fest in Bowling Green, where they got a summer pass for only $5 and got to see a movie once a week. So every Tuesday they left out early for the movies. This was a summer experience neither the kids or Jonathan would ever forget.

Even though Jonathan lost his job, God knew what He was doing.  We both know it would be hard for him to leave his job and enter ministry full time again. We have be there-done that, got a T-shirt and not sure we wanted another one.  God had bigger plans.... more info in my next blog...

Thanks for reading about my crazy life...