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I have seriously neglected my blog!!  Time's fun when you're having flies, eh?  :)

My husband still does not have a job.  Military retirement pays but not much, so each month it is a choice between paying our mortgage and bills or eating.  Until recently my husband was working at a friends farm, clearing land and helping out.  He and Tony really enjoyed it and it paid well enough for us to survive (and for Tony to have some spending money for Christmas!).  With that job over, we're struggling pretty badly now; but expect that God will supply our needs. 

We're looking forward to Christmas with the grandparents!  Yay!!  We have completely rearranged our downstairs so they can stay down here except for shower-time.  Now they only have to go up the stairs if they want to get clean.  :)  We're hoping they'll do that at least once or twice during their stay.  I'll have to post pictures of our new set-up once I get it all prettied up... it's still in transition phase (read: disaster area).  One good thing about Daddyman being home all day is that I can give him projects.  Yesterday he switched the play room to the upstairs guest room; the downstairs playroom became the new guest bedroom, and the playroom became the school room. 

Awesome.  :)

Now it just has to be organized & decorated.  When he has a job and our budget is less scary, we plan to put a 1/2 wall in our entry way so the eye will be directed away from the school room...because now the school room is the first thing you see when you walk in.  But I think it will be easier to keep clean b/c it's out in the open where I can see the disaster and have them clean it; whereas before it was hidden in the den and I never even looked there unless I needed school supplies.

Anyway, there's a little update from our house.  I hope all who read this have a wonderful Christmas celebrating with friends and family.  And as we are certainly not the only ones struggling financially, I hope that if your family is struggling, that you are able to focus more on the people you love instead of the gifts you can't give. 

Merry Christmas!