Miracles

I have so much to be thankful for this year! My family has been so blessed, especially in the last few months. I'd like to share with you our recent little miracle.

For a while now, my husband has looked around for a new job. There were several reason for this including higher pay and more opportunity for advancement.

In September, he applied for a job with the State of Utah as an IT Technical Support Specialist. The problem was that the job was in Moab, UT. Moab is in southeast Utah, about 4 hours from where we live (Cedar City, in southwest Utah). I did NOT want to move, but thought he should apply and that maybe it would help him to get a raise at his job.

A week after sending in the application, we were on our way to Draper, UT (near Salt Lake) for his interview. He felt good about it and they seemed to like him, so on the way home we started to talk a little bit more seriously about what we would do if he got the job.

The interview was on a Friday afternoon. He was one of the last to be interviewed. We also found out later that about 100 people applied for this job. Monday morning at 10am, he got a call. He got the job! He came home soon after to tell me and I was shocked, but that wasn't the best part.

The lady that offered him the job asked him how he really felt about moving. He told her that he would move wherever they needed him (which was true for him). She then explained that they didn't have someone in that particular position in Cedar City and that she was wanting to open that position up here. She asked him if he'd like to work in Cedar if she could get approval to create the new position.

When he told me this, I bawled! Thinking of moving was making me literally feel sick and I didn't really know if I could have handled it. I feel that prayer is very powerful, but I honestly hadn't even really prayed for him to get the job or anything. I just tried to ignore it.

Well, I have prayed about it a lot since then. Even without literally expressing my wants and needs, I was being given exactly what I wanted, and so was my husband.  And he is very happy to be staying in Cedar too.

He's been on the job for two weeks now and he is overwhelmed! He has a large workload and hardly has time to eat lunch, let alone answer my calls or texts. At his previous work I could basically talk to him any time, but now I have to wait for him to call me when he's not busy. I know, I was spoiled before. But thinking of how busy he is and how tired he is when he gets home makes me even more thankful that we aren't in a strange town trying to unpack a thousand boxes.

This is one of the biggest miracles that has happened to us. We know we need to be in Cedar. My husband will get more opportunities to move up and is making a bit more money. We have good benefits. Even though it's hard work, it will definitely pay off and we will be able to meet our goals of being debt free and having a good emergency savings as well as planning for retirement.

We've had two other miracles this fall. One is a direct result of the new job. We finally got my husband a working vehicle! Out of the last 9 years of married, he has only had his own car for ONE! Now he has his car and I have mine and I have NO idea how I hauled 4 kids around along with shuttling him to and from work.

The other miracle is that we are expecting baby #5. We have known for a while that we had another one waiting to come and will be blessed with a new little crazy in the middle of May.

With the holiday season right in front of us, I cannot help but feel humbled for the blessings we have received. I don't want anyone to think I am bragging. I debated even writing this post, but I wanted to express my gratitude for a hard working husband, and for my Heavenly Father who knows who I am and what I need. Everything I have in my life is because of His love.

I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!