Waiting, Snot, and Dishes. . .

Isn't that what life entails most of the time?  I have three sick kids, the baby who loves to walk over raise his hands high above his head (indicating he wants to be picked up) and when his request is granted. . . he gives a sweet snuggle followed by a not so subtle wipe of his nose across your arm or chest, smearing snot EVERYWHERE!  Just signs of how much he loves his mommy!  This morning I went to Adecco, a temp agency, to meet with a recruiter to find employment.  We have come to the game plan of me working full time during the day, Ben working a night job, and then hopefully we will be able to make ends meet and he will get into Pharmacy School (major prayers and begging to Father in Heaven for this one!).  It is so frustrating that I have more earning potential than Ben when he is the one that has the Bachelor's Degree.  Crazy world just gets crazier!  Anyway, I went to the appt at 9 and waited outside a locked office for 50 min. I ended up driving into Louisville to a different location and now will hopefully be interviewing next week for the woman who missed my appt's job.  I just pray that we are making the right decision as far as me working during the day.  

It is so hard for a mother to be away from her "domain" and leave the babies and chores to someone else (even if it is a good intentioned husband).  

I have had the most wonderful friend since we've moved out here to Mulletland.   Janelle (http://williamandjanell.blogspot.com/) has such an amazing spirit of faith, hope, and light.  She is enduring an amazingly difficult trial right now (brain tumor) that makes me feel so pathetic for even complaining of our financial trial.  However, she always wants to listen, help, and give hope and encouragement to me.  What a selfless person!!!!!  If we could all be so. . . 

I have the chance to help Janelle with some things in preparation for her surgery and I don't think I could ever tell her what a blessing it has been to be there helping her, but most of all her helping me by listening and being a friend when she has much bigger things going on in her life.  I strive to be more like her.  She is truly a Christlike example of love and friendship.  

Grandma Greene is good one hour and terrible the next.  Time will only tell.  She has done such amazing things in her life in the past 10+ years in serving the Lord.  She went from being an inactive member who lost her life's love after 52 years of marriage to going to the temple a year later and then working in the temple up to 3 days a week at one point.  She has been an inspiration to all her posterity.  If you ever had a question about the relationship and communication a person can have with Heavenly Father, it would all be answered after listening to her say 1 prayer.  She literally "talks" to our Father in Heaven.  It is that testimony that she shares that helps me keep my faith going.  Amazing to think this little doll of a grandma was once a drinking, smoking, farmer's wife.  

I have hope that I can make positive changes in my life too.  Just like Grandma!  Somewhere inside I have to have at least some of the courage she does.  (After all I do have her fingers and feet!)  

Love you Grandma!