I realize I am a horrible blogger and to anyone who may actually read my blog, I am sorry! Life has been rather insane the past few months & I am still trying to make sense of things, unwind & figure out what updates to put on here. I was working for a periodontal office, where for whatever reason the office manager started to have it out for me. She would make promises to me about which offices (they had 3) I would work in, what days I would travel to other offices, what days I would have off etc. But she was forever regenging on the promises she was making. When I started to see a pattern of that I started asking for agreements we made in writing. She was the kind of manager to never want things in writing or a paper trail of what she was doing. She would always tell me how I had no experience in dental (kind of as if I didn't have a right to the same treatment as others) and that it was an ever changing practice. Well the last straw for me was when she last minute tried to schedule me to help out on my day off in another office and when I said I had a doctors appt & couldn't she fired me. Needless to say this all caused a ton of stress & my last day there my blood pressure spiked to 170/100 and I ended up in the emergency room. This has been the first I can even write all of this without it wanting to go up! I have been now trying to get un-employment but the office seems to be fighting that too so we have a hearing over the phone Jan 23rd. It is all been so stressful but God is bringing us through! It is crazy to me but the firing happened a few weeks after I felt God strongly calling me to join Paul in prayer daily to pray about getting out of our debt.
It is harder to do now with only one income & it doesn't make sense but I know God's plans are bigger then ours. I will be starting to waitress soon at a bbq type restaurant & that is a blessing & answer to prayers.


Christmas was fantastic & a great blessing to go back to Ohio and spend time with friends & family! We got into Berlin on the 20th & spent till the 24th at Jake & Ivy's B&B. We were about 7 miles from my parents & spent those days with them & Hannah (my sister) who came in from NYC. We had a great time, spent time with family, saw some friends & went to several local places that I hadn't been to in a long time.... Natures Food Market, Lehman Hardware, Kauffman Bakery & Heini's Cheese. I felt like the tourist I used to make fun of! Enjoying the quiet, the snow & even seeing buggies on the road.
I felt like a lot of my friends have had babies this past year & I got to hold Leah's baby boy Taylor & Monica's daugher Lara which was fun!
On the 24th we headed up to my in-law's and spent the 24-28th with the Janssens. We had Christmas eve at Grandpa & Grandma Janssen's, which was fun. Christmas day was a relaxed day around the Janssen house. Day after Chuck, Shelley, Paul & I headed up to Middleburg Heights to see a long time friend of my families, Sam Bender. He was one of the first baseball chaplains. He & Paul got to know eachother at our wedding as did Chuck & Shelley. Paul was able to produce the first story to ever honor Sam this summer with CBN.


We had a great time with Sam. On Saturday I put on a birthday party for Paul's 30th at Max Doogan's in Chardon, OH & about 20 some people came out which was very nice.
We decided to squeeze in one more day and stayed through Sunday. All in all it was a wonderful trip & Christmas time!

Life back in VA has been busy with me trying to get a job, etc. But good. I have been having some really long days at home alone but am thankful for the time to relax & get back to normal. I have finally been sleeping really well which is fantastic.
I hope all of my friends & family have had a wonderful Christmas & New Years as well.