Weekend

My weekend showed much promise - a trip away to Pender Island in a nice, quiet cabin with some close friends and family. Last time J wasn't able to go but he was able to this time and I was quite excited to spend some quality time with him, since it's always go go go during the week and we really haven't spent much time together. Unfortunately the weekend didn't exactly go as planned.

Friday we got to start our weekend off with some bad news. J isn't getting E.I. like we had hoped. He had gone to the office in the beginning of January to ask the obvious questions, basically asking "Am I eligible?". They assured him he was, even with his situation and so he applied. A month and a half later they tell him he's actually NOT eligible due to some new rule or something. Anyways, point is, he asked them a long time ago and if they had told him no then he could've found himself a part time job. Anyways, I've really been trying to have faith that everything will work out, and I know it will, it's just that things keep getting more and more messed up.

The weekend was pretty fun, had it's down points with J being sick the whole time and anytime he felt up to doing something he was usually reading for a test he was supposed to have on Monday (but didn't end up having)... The drive home was spent with someone who doesn't think it makes sense that we're moving to Kamloops and thinks we're both super happy and excited about it. For the record, we're excited to see what God has in store for us, but we're not excited to say goodbye to the people who mean the most to us. I don't want people thinking that we can't wait to leave. If I had my way we'd buy a house in Maple Ridge and raise our family here, but as Pastor Derrick said in a sermon a few weeks back, we have to factor in the "Divine IF". IF it's God's will, maybe we'll be back in Maple Ridge someday. But right now it seems that God wants us to go to Kamloops.

Anyways, so the big news is that because of our new financial situation we'll be moving in with J's parents as of March 15th. We're very blessed that they are able to have us, but of course I have mixed feelings about it. I know lots of people do this at some point in their lives, and it's not for a very long time - just 6 weeks - but I still feel kinda crappy that it came down to that. We were really hoping we could've made it through these 4 months, but I guess, again, God had other plans. Plans to prosper, right?

So enough about that, today marks the first day of Lent! I was thinking about giving up coffee, that would be stinkin' hard though... but maybe that's the point. Is anyone else giving up anything?