A Bump in the Road

If you're friends with Jason on social media, you already know this but for those of you who aren't-Jason lost his job last week. This came as a bit of a shock to all of us, but regardless we have to deal with it. We are in the process of making some changes in our family that were going to happen anyway, it's just now they are happening a lot faster. We were planning on scaling back on a lot of different spendings and teaching our kids to enjoy the little things in life instead of needing the latest and greatest of everything. So, because of the circumstances we have been handed we are going to be focusing on that even move. For the most part, our kids don't know what happened and honestly only the people super close to us truly know what happened with his job. However, they know he's going to be home more and they're excited for that-what they don't realize is they're trading dad time for all of the things they will be wanting in the future. In the long run, I think everything will work out. Currently all of our kids have more than enough clothes, they have more toys than they know what to do with, we're able to pay our bills, and we can afford food. We are fine for now, hopefully by the time the kids grow and need new clothes Jason will have everything figured out and we can go back to "normal". I am hoping and praying this goes smoothly, because at the end of the day it's not just about us we have nine kids to worry about. We have made it through a lot worse though, so I know we can do this.