Bummer

So this morning on my way to register Charlotte for her new daycare, I turned on my phone and saw I had a voicemail so I checked it and it was my manager asking me to call her later this afternoon...so I did...and found out that my job with Weyerhaeuser has been eliminated due to the restructuring that the company is going through right now...so as of October 3, I am officially unemployed. It's actually a lot more scary than I thought it would be, I knew they were going to make changes, I guess I just thought I would be safe...oh well. I know this means that there is something better for me out there, just the thought of starting a new job though is so stressful. I had been with Weyerhaeuser for almost 6 years and thinking about starting over with a new company again is scary...that means starting over with vacation time, learning computer systems, learning new business terms and a whole new business/industry...not what I really wanted to do at this point in my career, but I guess God has different plans!

Anyway, needless to say, our family needs prayers right now. I will get paid through sometime in December, I meet with HR tomorrow so I'll find out exactly when that last paycheck will come...by my calculations, I need to have a new job by Christmas...what a crappy time to start a new job...oh well. Maybe we can save up and hold out until January, or maybe something will come along before then. Like I said though, we need prayers.

So to make this seem a little less depressing, I added some new pictures! And just as a reminder that God will take care of us - when I found out I was pregnant with Timothy, Brandon had just left a really bad retail job and had interviewed with Weyerhaeuser and with the Army. The Weyerhaeuser job paid great and the Army job, not so great...he ended up not getting the job with Weyerhaeuser and started working for the Army in August 2005. If he had gone to work for Weyerhaeuser, he would have probably lost his job too with all these changes, but instead, the poorly paying Army job has turned into a great job, not only in what it pays, but the people he works with are so nice and it's such a family environment and we were able to find such a great daycare...looking back, it's so easy to see how God had a hand in what happened and I know He's working through this for our good also.