I see it the light at the end of the dark tunnel

If you know me, you'll know that I sometimes get overwhelmed when I have so much going on. I have a hard time finding the light at the end of the tunnel. This has been true the last several months.

It all started in September when my dear wonderful husband lost his job. Things look pretty bleak, pretty darn fast. We didn't have much money in savings, just enough to cover a few expenses and that was about it. We were in debt up to our noses, though most of it was the house. We were terrified that we would lose our home, and have to live in our van or with the in laws. It was a very bleak time.

Things started looking up the following week when dh found a new job, however, it required us to pick up and move and find a new house and sell the old one. What a mess that was. We did find a house pretty quickly. We looked at 9 houses one day and didn't find anything that we really liked enough to make an offer, so out we were a few days later looking again. This time, the first house we looked at was the one. Of course we still looked at 3 other ones, but pretty much knew the first house was the one we wanted. We made an offer that day. Took us two days to hear back and it was good news, they accepted our offer. We did run into a few snags along the way, such as it taking almost 3 weeks to get the signed contract back, and then negotiating on the electrical work. It seemed to take forever but finally we were able to move in and the electrical work was started.

Selling our house was a hectic thing. We thought we had it sold within the first 7 days of it being on the market. Wrong. It was sold for two weeks, when the buyer decided to back out. Thankfully we did get his deposit on it, but we also were in the process of finishing packing and about to move, so we couldn't start showing for another week. Not a very happy time for us. Luckily, withint a week or so of it going back up, we had another offer that went through this time, but closing wasn't until December 27th. We ended up paying on two houses for a month plus utilities on two houses for two months. It was not a fun thing to do around Christmas, but we ended up having a good Christmas despite it.

During the month of December I had hit a funk and couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. I had so many boxes that I needed to get unpacked, I had electricans in my house, the weather wasn't the best and we had to worry about driving 2 hours to shovel everytime the weather was bad. I was not a happy person.

Today we got our income taxes back. I was able to pay everything finally and was able to start working a budget for us. I've managed to unpack all of our boxes finally. I even caught up on laundry too. Today, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it feels good.

Thank you, Jesus.