Quite a few months back I stopped thinking “What else is going to happen?” I mean, I don’t need to think that because something else will happen. I think back over the year we have had, or even just the past nine months we’ve had and I think “Enough already!!!”
It all started in April with Joe’s heart attack. Then he was off work for a month waiting to have bypass surgery in May. Then he was off work for six weeks to recuperate. Then days before he was to return for work he was laid off. I think this was about that time that I stopped thinking about what was going to happen next.
After that we have to start dealing with medical bills and doctors. And then Joe had that day he wasn’t feeling well and called 911 (by that time we had reached the max out of pocket for Joe so we didn’t have to pay for that trip to the hospital).
And then I get pregnant.
(It’s just doesn’t stop!)
Just last week I was thinking that we were finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe that was a mistake. Because Joe got laid off on Friday. Grrr!! He may end up going to “the valley” (Eugene, Salem, Portland areas) to get work. Which means we’d have to pay for gas, lodging, and food for him. Grrr!!
ENOUGH ALREADY!
So enough with my ranting. I didn’t post this for pity, just to get it off my chest.
Amazingly, despite all of this I’ve been feeling crafty. My friend got me hooked on these “exploding” boxes similar to this. It’s the closest I’ve been to scrap booking in five years. And I’ve been working on a project with the same friend for all the Primary children for Christmas. I really want to make a tree skirt but I’ve been thinking that for the past 11 years. Who knows if I’ll ever get to it. And I’ve wanted to make matching Christmas stockings. I wanted to make them after Jay was born because I thought we were done with kids. So now I can make five matching stockings instead of four.
