Challenges Ahead

When I titled the name of my blog Adventures of the Adams' Family, I definitely did not realize that we would be venturing into the biggest adventure our family has ever ventured on:  The Adventure in the Land of Unemployment and Social Services.  The reason we have "decided" to partake in this adventure that 13% of the American population are on is because Larry has been laid off.  Wow, I never thought that this would happen, but I have decided to see this as something that will strengthen our family's faith and reliance on God.  The past five days have probably been the most stressful  and scary days of my life ever.  It has been more stressful than graduating high school, graduating college, moving to a new country without knowing a soul, leaving the military, and having children combined.  All the other would be scary moments in my life have never given me this total feeling of helplessness and unknown.  For those of you that know me, I am the type of person that starts to stress when something does not go according to the way that I have planned (this is not a very good quality when your husband tells you that company is coming over and then they don't show and you start to think evil and ugly thoughts of what kind of person your would be guest is.  I am working on this terrible quality.)  So when Larry informed me that we will not have an income to support our family, I of course started to go into panic mode.  This did not help my husband who was probably panicking on the inside also.  I know that I probably should have stayed calm and reassured him that we would be ok but instead I PANICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Now that I have had a few days to let the news set in and also research options, I know that we will be fine.  God has a plan for us and although He has not made it clear yet, I know that at the other end we will be better off.  On the second day of unemployment, I read this verse:  Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.   Then two people on facebook put this verse up as an encouragement.  I realized that Go has a purpose for our family and to fulfill this purpose, the Lord had to close the door at Otis and push us into this new adventure.  I will fully trust the Lord and His wonderful plan that He has for our lives. 
Because we are now embarking on this new adventure, I may not be able to blog as many shopping trips and meal ideas.  Or rather I may change the focus of the shopping trips and recipes.  I have not decided which direction I will take that part of the blog.  For now I will probably blog everyday life.  I hope that even with the changes, that those of you who read my blog will continue to follow it.  I look forward to sharing my new adventures with all of you.