Blessed...

We truly are so blessed, Brett and I. We have been given so many things that we take for granted: Amazing jobs, a nice townhome, our health, being able to be parents, an amazing marriage, being able to go to school, EVERYTHING! And as most of you in the blogging world know, I posted a couple of weeks ago about a big nasty trial we were facing...and that trial was Brett losing his job. He was given a 2 months notice so he still has it until the beginning of May.

But, as most of you probably would do, we were freaking out. I was just thinking "The timing could not be worse. The baby will be here a month after that and then what?! Will I have to still work and have the baby in childcare (that was not even an option before the bad news)? How are we going to survive?!?!?!?!" Brett is going to be taking summer school (no time to work) in order to be able to graduate this December so there was no way we could afford to have him take a semester off, the point is to get OUT of Logan, not stay here longer. So with him doing that I figured I would have to work no matter what, there just didn't seem to be a way around it.

Well, we have been praying daily to figure out a solution to this problem and we have both felt at peace about the situation. We knew that God would provide a way for us to make things work best, especially for the baby, whether that be me work and put the baby in childcare or by some miracle the money would just magically appear...well...

Miracles do happen!!! Brett applied for Financial Aid just because we never have before and we figured we could use all the help we could get, even if that meant a student loan to help pay the bills while I worked, while Brett was in school and while the baby was in childcare. He applied a couple of weeks ago and we have just been waiting for the result. Well last night, he looked at the status of his financial aide and..BOOM...there was not only a student loan sitting there, but also a Pellet Grant. A very decent sized one. Honestly, I didn't even think we would get a Pellet Grant so it didn't even cross my mind to hope for one.

God hears our prayers. My testimony just grew a million inches last night. There is enough money from Financial Aide that I definitely won't have to work and Brett can be dedicated to school all summer and not have to work. If he wants he can get a job this fall when he has more time, but we are going to be money-worry free until he graduates!!

Like I said before, we truly are so blessed. Heavenly Father keeps finding ways to bless us. We are going to be just fine and I will be able to be the stay-at-home mommy I have always wanted to be, and Brett can finish school and we can do it all without wondering or worrying about how we are going to survive.

I knew we would find our rainbow in the storm:)