I'm paid staff!  WOOHOO

A few weeks ago I went to our Church leadership and told them that I needed to be bringing in a certain amount of money each week in order for our family to make it and they said they would discuss it and get back to me.  When I showed up for services yesterday they handed me my first check and in a month I will be making what we need  

God has been SO good to us--carrying us through a very difficult financial time that I can't explain how we got through except God carrying us, and now step by step bringing us into blessing after blessing.  There is no way that anyone looking at or hearing about the last 5 years of our life could do anything but see God's fingerprint and signature all over it.  To GOD be the glory!

Now dh is getting another pay raise in a few weeks and we are moving in a positive direction.  We're armed with Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace information and owe nothing but our home which we will pay off as quickly as we can (I'm going to look into the automatic withdrawels every other week and when we can we want to refinance to a shorter term loan).  In the meantime we are taking things one day at a time, weighing our purchases, taking control of our lives in a positive way.

The other great news right now is that Ronan's surgery is scheduled for June 14th and that will be the last one he should need.  After that he will have no greater risk for melanoma than anyone else.  I'm so grateful to the Lord for preparing me for all of this and sustaining me through it and I'm so appreciative that his pediatrician knew immediately what we were dealing with and referred us to the top plastic surgeon in the state.  He has been wonderful--and Ronan gets excited when we go to see him

This is just such an amazing year!  Praise the Lord!