Becoming a One Income Family

Ever since Jason lost his job our family has been adjusting to so many different things, including the obvious one-our incomes changed dramatically. We went from an "upper middle class" family to probably the lower part of that. It honestly seems like our bills have gotten hirer and our incomes have died completely. We've had to adjust a lot, we had to break it to our kids that some of their activities can't be done anymore and that our holidays will be scaled back A LOT. To our extremely spoiled(sorry grandma I mean well loved!), this came as a bit of a shock, but we promised them they will be okay. Seeing as they're so young we figured this would be a good time to scale back on somethings anyway so this may be a blessing in disguise. So far for us we have figured out how to make due with very little, I'm convinced we will be able to make a cook book on how to cook with five ingredients in your fridge. It's funny to me, we cut out a lot of our spending and we seem to be happier. Our kids fight less, they seem to be happier in general and always want to play with each other. It's so refreshing to see this, a few months ago they just wanted the latest and greatest of everything**cough cough TROLLS MOVIE!**, now they just want to draw with chalk, play baseball, and explore our neighborhood. Becoming a one income family when you have nine kids and two more on the way isn't what we would have planned, but I know that God has bigger and better plans for us. He knows we need something and will give it to us in due time, I can't wait to see what it is. For now, we will focus on what we have instead of what we want and just take it one day at a time.