God is in Control

I've been away for a while...as per usual :)  Let me update you on the goings on of my life.

Livi is almost 4.  HOW?!  Jackson is almost 2.  Again...HOW?!  After having kids, and for having them for this long, I should already expect that time will just keep going, and it will speed up, rather than slow down.  I just need to accept it.

What else has been going on...the summer is almost over for mostly everyone, but it ended for us a few weeks ago.  Since Jason coaches football, they have camps in July, and that was 3 days a week.  Then last week is when 2-a-days started, so summer was OFFICIALLY over on August 5th.

Ever since the bank closed, almost 2 years ago, I have always known that eventually I would have to go back to work.  More recently, I have felt that God has been saying that that time is here.  I was on unemployment, and that required 2 weekly applications, but I NEVER  heard from any of those places. We have been throwing the idea around of getting me a job within South-Western City Schools.  Last June (2012) I took the Civil Service exam for the secretary position, but was pretty high (or low? either way, I wasn't going to be the first person they called) on the list.  I didn't expect a call from them, and still haven't gotten one.  But since we were thinking about me working in SWCS, we thought any position would do.  In June I had an interview for the medical monitor position at one of the elementary schools.  I didn't get the job.  But I wasn't discouraged, I knew if God wanted me to work, and in the district, He would provide something.
At the end of July I took a class for a para-professional (aide), but because I am not a current employee in the district, I couldn't take the test that the district provides, I would have to take it at Ohio State in September.  One of the days of this class, I went over to the District service center, just to inquire about the secretary list and to find out why I couldn't take the test with everyone else.  Long story short, they're not 100% sure that they're hiring new aides.  But they also haven't exhausted enough people on the secretary list either, to get to my name.  I cried the whole way home.  I didn't know if God was just testing me, to see if I would listen to Him, or if He really did have something in store.
The drive from DSC to our house is about 20 minutes.  It took 20 minutes for them to call me to tell me that another medical monitor position had opened up at the elementary school ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.  She asked me if I was interested, I think I yelled "YES" at her...oops.  She said she would give them my name and they would call me.  At the end of that week, I still hadn't heard from them, so I decided to give them a call myself.  The secretary confirmed that my name was on the list, but the principal was out of the building until the next week, so I should hear from them then.  I got a call on Monday, they wanted me to come in next Monday (TODAY) for an interview.
Fast-forward to today.  I was nervous, more so than I was for the 1st interview in June.  I went in, it lasted maybe 15 minute and I came home.  Jason says a fast interview isn't a good sign...lol.  Well, just before 3 this afternoon, they called to let me know they were offering ME the job!  As soon as I hung up the phone, I turned into this huge, crying mess.  I have been preparing myself to go back to work, but the thought of "maybe" and the actual reality of it are 2 different things.  Now I don't want to leave the kids, lol.  But, as I look back, I know God will provide just the right childcare for them, where they will be loved.  He provided this job for me, as I was crying out to Him that day, telling Him that I felt lost, and didn't know what He wanted me to do, He showed me exactly where He wanted me by allowing me to receive a call just minutes later.

Yesterday in Livi's class at church, the lesson was about "God is in Control".  I didn't realize it until just now that I was supposed to hear those 4 words yesterday, to remind me that He was in control over my entire situation, He just needed me to let him take control.

If you think about it, pray.  This will be a time of adjustment for all of us, me and the kids especially. Pray for that, and pray that we find a babysitter.