Blessings

I'm a stay-at-home mom and enjoy this "job". I know how precious this time is for me as well as my child (soon to be children). However, getting the random monetary gig can be such a blessing at just the right time. In speaking of blessings earlier, I should have also mentioned that the Lord even provided the means to pay the ER co-pay from Wednesday night. He set this up way in advance for us to be able to pay for it w/o interfering in our regular bills!! Thanksgiving morning we went down to a large family photo shoot (a grown family with 11 children who all have their own families now, too!). It was a lot of fun, a way for us to be occupied with other thoughts than Eric's injuries, and the way to earn the money to pay for this accident. (We also got to eat Thanksgiving dinner and not lift a finger for preparation or clean-up.)
Then, the next day, we got spoiled again by Stef and Ryan coming over and serving us Thanksgiving dinner. It was really good food and nice to be with our friends who have become our family, too.
I also have to mention helpful family. Eric's two brothers came Wednesday night to pick up the bike for us while I took Eric to the urgent care. I'm so grateful they could do that for us (and sadly, one of them ended up with an accident the day after Thanksgiving...they signed the papers on their new car and as they drove home that evening, a huge buck ran out and crashed into the side of their car. The car was obviously damaged, but they were all okay...Boyds don't have a good track record with Thanksgiving weekend as it was!).
I've also been blessed with a great opportunity to get paid to do someone else's genealogy, so that added bit of income has been another blessing at just the right moment (with Eric being out of work, he won't make the same money as he has...no way to sell phones when you're sitting at home!). So, the Lord has definitely blessed us a lot; especially this past week!