Unemployed!

It's official! Kurt is unemployed! This is a big thing for us!. After working for the same car dealership for 7 1/2 years Kurt finally decided that he's sick of the hours and needs to spend more time with his family. I personally have been sick of the hours since he became a manager. He sold cars for the first two years and after that has been one of their finance managers. Don't get me wrong, we are very grateful that he has had a good, stable job for so many years. It has allowed us to get into our home, and for me to be a stay at home mom. I have to say that we owe a lot to this job. It just got to a point were Kurt would go two of three days without even seeing the girls because he would leave before they were awake and come home at 10:00 or 11:00 at night after they were in bed. He has had to come early from vacations because he wasn't allowed to take a Saturday off and has had to work every holiday. I have to say that I'm excited that part of our lives is over. Although the unknown is scary and we have no idea what job he's going to get.

Don't worry we didn't make this decision to quit without much prayer and preparation financially. We've known that this day was going to come for months now and we have been setting ourselves up just in case Kurt doesn't find a job right away. He doesn't want to jump into the first thing that comes his way unless it's something he wants to do the rest of his life. Now is the time to find a job that he will be happy with forever. I'm not sure how long it will take him to find this amazing job, but I know without a doubt that him quitting his job is the right thing. Why it's the right thing is the question. Maybe it's right because we need some sort of trial in our lives, and he won't find a job right away. I know that when people go through major trials they are always grateful for them when they're over, but this doesn't mean that I exactly want this trial, although Kurt and I are probably due for a challenge, we've been so blessed in our lives. Or maybe (this is the one we hope for) he finds his dream job within the month and we live happily ever after, with time together on Saturdays, holidays, nights and maybe he'll be able to see our children grow up and won't be missing their lives like he has been. Kurt wasn't even able to take an hour off to see Raegans preschool program. It saddens me to think about all the time Kurt was missing out on. I think that spending time as a family, and my girls having a dad around, is far more important then living in a fancy house, having new cars, boats, and all thoses other things that are temporary and in the long run will mean nothing.

We did the right thing, now we just wait to see what the next step in our lives is going to be. So far I'm excited to have my husband around and he'll have some time to get his "honey do" list done!!! I'm sure I won't be feeling this way if he's still around jobless in two months. If you hear of any dream jobs opening up let us know!