It's a little late, but I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Ours was as always, wonderful but tiring. I have a feeling this will be the last year that we travel between three families. We really love seeing everyone and we really hate to break traditions, but it's becoming really difficult to schedule everything, on top of having to work the next day.
November 1st marked us being in our house for a year and a half now... We feel like the time has just flown by. Being married for three years? It feels longer than that. Being in our house? I could swear we just moved in a month ago. The joys of owning a home! It seems there is always something to work on or fix, and of course, it doesn't help that when you go to fix something, it turns into a four step process. I had wanted to paint our full bath several weeks ago, and when Josh took down the mirror we found a hole in the wall. Needless to say, he's still working on that project and it still hasn't been painted yet. He's also still working on our half bath in the basement. We're hoping they'll both be done by New Years.
Josh is now happily (and maybe slightly bored) back at Beaumont. And now instead of filling his gas tank 2-3 times a week, it's 2-3 times a month and we've both felt such a relief from that. He's also been interviewing for a inter-operative monitoring job with Beaumont (don't ask me too many details, it's got something to do with the nerves during surgery!). He had his first interview nearly two weeks ago now, and he was basically guaranteed a second one within the next week or so. This would be a brilliant career move for him so we do ask for prayers. We will keep everyone updated on it.
My job is currently in a good news/bad news situation. The good news is the fact that I'm back to full time. The bad news is that I'm still out in our Macomb location and it looks like I'll be out here until at least February or March. I was really hoping to be back to Warren before the winter weather got here. But I'll just keep on keeping on because really, what else can you do?
Josh and I got all of our Christmas decorations up yesterday (minus our lights..) which was really nice. I really enjoy this time of year. It's always nice to remember how fortunate we are. And I tell Josh this all the time, but I feel like it becomes more obvious over the holidays, that we really are truly blessed. I am so thankful (and I know he is, too) for the way our lives have turned out so far. Sometimes it hard not to get wrapped up in the little things but we have a wonderful marriage, a home, full-time jobs and of course our faith in God. Could we really ask for anything more?
I think this is where I'll be ending for now. I'll try to get back here and give an update before Christmas, but if I don't and I won't be seeing you, I hope you have a wonderful and blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!
