Pearce Pastures: Where did I go?

[elevan]

Sorry about your foot. Make a bunch of peppermint tea and soak your foot in it, it'll help.

Projects are always popping up around the farm, so I'm sure that you'll find something to keep you busy

 

[autumnprairie]

Adding another poultry barn at your Mom's ?

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

I hope your foot feels better soon!!!
Yay for the electricity to your birds!!! I am a wee bit jealous!!!!

 

[Vickir73]

sorry 'bout your foot, but yea on the electricity !!!!

 

[promiseacres]

Hows your foot?

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Foot is good. I didn't have any mint tea but did soak it with some salt and it felt goooooood. The swelling is gone and bruise is going away, so just have to wait on the nice stab in the middle of my arch to heal. It made for a great reason to wear flip-flops instead of dress shoes to work all week.

I am so happy about the electricity in the barn! So nice. DH is fairly proud too. Our batch of meat birds is getting big. Just a few more weeks until we do half of them and get to have some fresh meat. We ate our last roaster Tuesday so it is time to fill the freezer again. Speaking of dinner, I made a really easy meal yesterday that the kids went bonkers over. It was just ground goat, home-style noodles, butter, and a touch of salt and pepper.... YUM!!


And on another note, DH graduates next Saturday :bun

 

[Pearce Pastures]

HI!!!!!!!!

I know I have been gone for awhile and I am sorry. I know there are some of you who will understand when I say that it was out of obedience that I was silent to all others but Him about what was going on.

Where to begin with this update.

We have been living on my income as a teacher for a year now, with a few side jobs here and there for my husband to keep us afloat. It has been tight. In the last two months though, it was beginning to look desperate (at least in my eyes).

In addition, DH was given the chance to take a test for the company he wants to work for, a incredibly technical exam that is the gateway into the career he has been studying for. However he did not pass it and we were in a bit of a panic since it meant waiting another YEAR to take it again.

As if I wasn't stressed enough, then you know what hit the fan at my job. Two years ago, our state was in a pinch and to solve the issue, they pulled a LOT of money from public schools. Since then, they have a fat surplus but used it for other things while schools are being forced to cut programs and close doors because they can't keep the lights on. Our school is now $500,000 in the hole and we tried to pass a referendum but it failed by 4 votes. I don't think people really believed that we were in need and thought we were bluffing, that things wouldn't get cut. Wrong. So they had to find a way to cut fast---and I was one of the 10 teachers being considered since I have less experience than others.

So I sat down on the floor one night, cried, thinking about how we had worked so hard for all of this, a house, a job, and now neither of us were going to have anything for all our efforts. Not exactly a trusting attitude. And I heard it so clearly---be silent and give it to ME!

God is good.

My parents decided they wanted DH to design and build for them a barn and pasture fence, for pay. We had enough to cover all of bills.

Our mortgage company sent us a $600 refund check because our escrow had been overpaid. We had enough to buy groceries and gas.

At work, 6 senior teachers stood up and said they would retire to save the jobs of the younger staff (Bless them!). I still have a job.

And then.....

Steve graduated with honors.

His program overseer contacted him and managed to get him in to retake the test.

He passed the test with flying colors.

He got a call from the company.

He was hired yesterday and starts in two weeks!

GOD IS GOOD!

 

[promiseacres]

so very happy you guys! HE is so good!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Bless those teachers. Long hours and years of service and they go out with yet another act of selflessness! That really brought tears to my eyes.

It is so hard to be going through the really stressful times. I am so glad that the blessings are flowing for you.

When my truck broke down last week, I cried out loud all the way to my friends house, literally praying that it was something much cheaper than a whole engine. I know what a thing to pray for, but this year has been so hard and we seem to just be getting deeper. Once the tears were out I started counting my blessings. I was the only one in the truck. It broke in a safe area where I had help just down the street and it didn't cause an accident. We had triple A and I have a shop that will accept me just leaving my broken vehicle with a key and a note to call me when they get a chance since it was a time they were closed. My DH has another car to use and I had a great friend to give me a ride to and from work when I needed it.....and the list goes on. Even in really hard times, there is always something to be grateful for.

Congrats on DH passing his class and the test. What a relief!

 

[OneFineAcre]

I had noticed you hadn't posted in a while.

I firmly believe that God gives us no burden that we cannot endure.

I am happy to hear of the blessings your family has received.