What Next?

Well, there was a time last month when I thought our water heater was going out. Luckily our furnace repair man bumped the nobby thing and turned it down. (That was also when we thought something was wrong with the furnace.) But it was something simple. Yay for us! About the same time our computer drives had been shutting down, and finally, the whole thing crashed. Bummer huh. Awesome for us, we didn't loose anything! Joseph was able to do a progression of things to get the viruses off the computer, and we are putting it back together. However not soon enough for me to have pictures or anything for this entry. Well we are using Joseph's old laptop that his sister Eliza was using; so we'll see what pictures she has in here!!!

But through all of those "scares", we ended up being okay. We are blessed.

Now here's the whopper. Through turns of the economy and such, the institution known as American Express decided to downsize. Half of this was to happen beginning of November, and the second half the end of January. Well I think you know where this is going.....Joseph was one of those. Thankfully he will still work for 45 days and then have 10 weeks severance. But in the middle of that, we have Brazil.
A lot of people have always said things like this are a blessing in disguise. So I decided not to be negative about this and push possible blessings away. I am trying to be positive about this, and challenge what is to come.
Joseph is an amazing person, with amazing skills. Hopefully he will be led to those sites and to know where to look to find a job. This will also give him a chance to think about what he wants to do. He had previously said he didn't want to work in a call center anymore; but now that he is in this position he is falling back on that as something he knows how to do. But I would hate to have him fall into the same old rut, instead of finding something new that he enjoyed.

So all in all, we will see what happens.

On a lighter note, the kids are doing well, and plugging through the school year.
Look what I found! This is a picture that Joseph's sister Eliza took when she was watching my kids while I was at school for something. This is in the new library at UVU. Cute huh!!