A Day in Our Life: January

Yes, I'm cheating a little by just entitling this post " January". Unfortunately my camera cable isn't working so Arthur has to download the pix onto his laptop, send them to me and then I have to save each one individually; a much more tedious process. It's easier doing a batch at once. January has been a good month so far. We got our car back (again!) and we are hoping that's it for car troubles. Arthur and I are trying a new budget for 2009 to pay off all our debts and get control of our cash. It seems to be working well so far - we are cash only, no debit cards!It's amazing how much money we actually have when we stopped using the debit cards! We started attending a new Calvary Chapel on Sundays. We had been going to a Calvary church plant in Clayton on Thursday nights but had continued to go to Raleigh CC on Sundays. We felt that it was time to make the break and focus on Clayton. Most of the other families at Clayton are attending the Apex Calvary for Sunday services until Clayton begins having Sunday services so we have gone there the last couple Sundays. It's a big adjustment to go to a church with 2000 people but so far we are learning a lot. We get the fellowship more on Thursday nights.

Rachel has had a positive start to her new year. She did get approved for SSI although we don't know how much at this time. The best part of that is that she gets medical assistance. Right now she has no health coverage so that's terrific. She also has gotten approved to work with Vocational Rehabilitation which will help her find a job and provide her with a job coach. Keep praying that God is preparing a new job for her.

Dan is enjoying a semester off college while he decides what he wants to do - Air Force or full time college. He's meeting Pastor Mike at the gym and for discipleship. He's looking to perhaps get involved with a College and Career Group at a local church since RCC doesn't have that but feels he belongs still working at RCC.

Sierra is still in her apartment and working at Applebee's. She's taking the final classes she needs to be promoted to key hourly at her store so she's pretty excited about that.

The older boys are fine but too far away! Andy turned 23 on January 12th (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!) He and Christine are shivering in RI and Ben and Natalie are shivering in Kansas! So that's for now. Here are some random pictures that I've taken.