Grandma Status at 26!

I just started working on the flex schedule at the doTerra call center. Why another oncall job you ask? Flexibility. I like the option of staying home when I want and I don't like leaving my kids with babysitters for long periods of time. I like my job there so far but would like to eventually get a real job. Lol!

Anyhow, this job makes me feel ancient. Five years of marriage, a Bachelor's degree, and two children seem to really date a person here in College Town, USA. I guess I never really noticed because I'm never around college students these days other than my family members. When I hear people flirting or see people trying to be extra cute it makes me feel really old! I just have to say that I'm glad I am married and out of that scene.  

My Perfectly Imperfect Life

My life is far from perfect.  Here's a glimpse of life in our shoes as of late:

My kids, yes plural, sleep in our bed still. Crib? What's that? Their playpen? Storage since they were born. They don't have any schedules and sometimes sleep at midnight if we let them. I am horrible at disciplining them so they act out in public and I want to die of embarrassment sometimes.  They repeat bad words and phrases kids ears should not hear. 

We are poor. We are on every government program you can think of but are slowly getting kicked off all of them because we are a hair over the income limit which is good and bad for us.  My husband works full time and I work on-call. You'd think that we would make enough to support ourselves but we don't. If we get kicked off of Medicaid my children will not have any health insurance because we can't afford what is offered through my husband's job. 

What else? I'm sure I could go on and on but you get it. My life isn't perfect. No one's life is. We all face different trials in life whether they be marital, educational, spiritual, physical, etc. As imperfect as my life is, I wouldn't trade it for the world, my basket of problems included. 

We taught a lesson in my CTR 10/11 class yesterday that talked about enduring adversity and I learned something. The Lord promises us that all adversity and trials are for our betterment and if we endure them WELL, we will be blessed. I'm working on the "enduring it well" part because I'm a worrier/complainer. Gotta have more faith!