Bloggy update on a busy day

Devon is going on a youth trip this summer, part leadership training with acts of service for the Salt Lake community thrown in. We are in the process of fundraising to pay for the week long trip. Today was day 1 of our church-wide garage sale. (literally in the church garage) I think we did amazing; with two days to go! It was a long day of being on my feet, so when I got home and sat down by my mom I said "My dogs are barking." And she had NO idea what I meant by that, since the dogs were not barking. Seriously. She had never heard that expression and I had to google it to show her I wasn't making it up.

When I got home today I had a package with one of my prizes! An apron and a bag of pomegranate pucker organic candy. Those are AMAZING! I hope I can find where they are sold because this bag won't last long, despite it's enormous size.

We are still praying and having our church family praying about Donnie's job, but honestly, we can't imagine how he will be able to keep it, and if he did, how he'd be able to stand working for someone who is constantly digging to find a way to fire you. God can drastically change the whole situation, we know that, but it may be better for Donnie to move on. We are trusting God in this. We want His will, not ours, though mine is to not lose our house. (I'm kind of freaky about that)

Speaking of which........ Donnie always pays our mortgage online, but today they said we owed 3 months of mortgage payments!!!! OH, we were not behind. We haven't made a late payment in 12 solid months. We were close to losing the house then, and had to work hard not to be foreclosed on. We have had to go without our van because we can't afford to fix it, our cars come and go on what works and what doesn't. We are pushing through to make it. Finally, finally, we were to be caught up in April! And then this. Now, Donnie could see that every month the payment had made it, and the automatic phone thingy said that the last payment made was April 29th. Umm, we didn't make a payment that day, we were almost broke that day.
After 1 1/2 on the phone and three transfers someone figures it out. They had to finalize things and ended up giving us a refund. But they recorded it wrong and marked one of our payments as something else. It is supposed to be fixed in 15 days. Wouldn't that be fun to go through as you sit there thinking you are about to lose your job?


The great news is that my mom is working now! It may not be a permanent job, but she will feel good about getting a paycheck for awhile, and it may turn into a permanent job. I don't think she likes it yet. That could be because they have a very, very screwed up accounting problem and she needs to help figure things out.

Oh, and I actually donated all my baby furniture to the church garage sale. I've been thinking that if I gave away my maternity clothes that I would turn up pregnant. Didn't happen. So I am giving away my swings and things. We'll see. But now, with the whole job thing, it might not be a great time, ya think?

Another exciting thing in our lives is that we started our own company and are very excited about it! Wouldn't it be amazing if Donnie got a severance package for 6 months pay and we could just devote our time to our business and maybe not need a job at all?