You Just Gotta Trust In HIM

My absolutely wonderful, amazing, hardworking husband!

Before I get started I would just like to say that I am so proud of my husband. I definitely have the best one out there. He stood up for his family this week and turned a could be horrible situation into some quality time together. I will be doing a combined 29/30 week update later today as well.

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Jordan came home on Thursday (6/29) evening and told me that he has lost his job (the job where his iPhone was stolen the day before). He would rather quit/get fired instead of work another day in the situation he was working in. I'm not going to go into details of why because if  you're close enough to us you know. Let's just say things were said that weren't meant to be talked about on the job and Jordan was tired of putting up with it. His job was the only source of income for us considering I'm 30 weeks pregnant. Jordan talked with my parents first before talking to me about it because he wanted to get some things figured out because he didn't want to stress me out. Stress + Me = Early Labor. I am so proud of the way he handled the situation and how was I suppose to stress out about it when he promised me he had everything under control and all we had to do was trust in God.

By the end of the night he had already had one interview scheduled for a Painter's Apprentice in Daytona Beach for Friday morning at 7:30. We were able to go to bed with a piece of mind that things are going to be okay. I was looking forward to spending all day with my husband (even if that meant driving from place to place putting in job applications) considering I rarely see him while the sun is up. My father also decided to help us put in a few job applications and take Jordan to see the Army recruiter considering he has put off going to the recruiter because he never has a weekday off. So things were looking up for the weekend and I don't think anything could really get us down at that point. We would be excited if just one thing went right for us on Friday.

We show up at the interview and everything he said went great. The boss was going to give him a call back on Saturday to let him know if he had the job or not. Being a painters apprentice, we weren't going to have any benefits and he would have to be on call 24 hours. It was a job. We then met up with my father back in DeLand and we headed to the recruiters station. While we have never received good news from the recruiter since we are going through the Permanent Resident Card replacement process with homeland security because his wallet was stolen in October along with his social security card. That's another story with how long the process is taking and most other jobs wouldn't hire him unless he had the hard copies even though we have verification papers, anyways. The recruiter went fantastic. Jordan actually had questions answered and was told what he needed to do to start to process again since being medically discharged from the early entry program with the marines back in 2011 due to having to go on 9 months of hard core antibiotics. All Jordan had to do was bring back his passport/visa, birth certificate, and high school diploma and they could start the process with him and even expedite the permanent resident card process! Everything was going our way. We put in a few more job applications before calling it a day and went out for a much needed date night.

While we were in the dollar theater watching 42 (Jackie Robinson movie which part of his story took part in DeLand) Jordan received another phone call about an interview. This interview was set up for Monday at 7:30 for VOLUSIA COUNTY SCHOOLS as a groundskeeper! Now we just needed to hear back from the painters job and we did the following day.

Jordan got the job as the painters apprentice and he asked if he could go to the 7:30 "appointment" and come into work afterwards. His new boss said no. We were torn now so Jordan asked if he could call back in an hour and give his new boss an answer. Jordan has never had the opportunity to choose between two jobs. We were like do we turn down a definite job for a better job interview? After talking it out we decided to trust God again and go with our gut feeling. Jordan turned down the job offer to go to the interview on Monday and it was one of the best decisions we ever made!

Jordan knocked the job interview out of the park. He was hired on the spot, filled out all the paperwork, and received his employee handbook. When he came back to the jeep two hours after his interview started we were off to Labcorp to get his drug test and to UPS for him to get fingerprinted. Everything fell into place and this job is an amazing opportunity with possible benefits after a certain time period. He should start early next week.

While we are 100% grateful for the opportunity he had at his old job because it gave us a starting position in a new state as a new family we are even thankful for the new one. NO more 3:30 A.M. wake up calls, NO more coming in after midnight to only sleep a few hours and go back, NO more of him being overworked and underpaid, and NO more wondering what hours he'll be working.

While we don't know 100% of all the details we do know the he has a set schedule Monday thru Friday 6:30-3:30 which means I have my husband back. We can plan TOGETHER for the arrival of our first son. I was so excited to schedule the birth center tour for Monday that I've been putting off for weeks because I didn't want to go without Jordan and now I can schedule some last minute parenting classes as well. Jordan can come to my doctors appointments & ultrasounds, we can work together getting the nursery together, and we get to spend some much needed quality Husband & Wife time together before our son arrives in September.

Thank You to everyone that has been praying for our situation and I want everyone to know that God works everything out as long as you trust in him. We thought we would be struggling to make ends meet until he starts his job but God has blessed us in more ways than just the job. My mother-in-law gave us a belated wedding present of BRAND NEW tires for the jeep which were very much needed as our tires were starting to split. Since his pay is backed a week from his old job  he has two set weeks of pay checks and God is still blessing us. My old OB in North Carolina sent us a pretty check in the mail because we over paid and we even picked up a baby sitting job this week so God is truly showing us what can happen when we trust in him. Thanks to the extra income we are finally able to schedule an eye exam for Jordan and get his some new contacts since his glasses have broke at least 4 times and super glue is holding them together. Just keep trusting in him no matter what and he'll take care of it.

I hope everyone enjoy's celebrating their FREEDOM today and the birthday of this amazing country we are able to live in. Be thankful for the small things in life that some people take for granted. You never know when life is going to throw a lemon or two your way.

Until Next Time
XOXO