So, what now?

That's the question I've been asking the last few weeks. I have wanted to get on here and write a post several times about what's been going on, and what's going on this time around when I'm asking that question and it looks like there's just no answer, but then things change. In the midst of everything, there has been a few positive changes.

Right now, my car situation is so unpredictable, I'm not sure from one day to the next what to expect. The car I'm driving now doesn't have much life left to it, and has a horrible smell coming from the vents that neither me, my step dad, nor my step brother can figure out what it it is. We know it has something to do with the water. They've still been trying to find heads for another car (original plan was to take them from the car I'm driving now, and put them on the other car, then give that to my sister and I get the Blazer back, but we all doubt the condition of this car's heads), but have been unsuccessful. So, with the whole unpredictability of the vehicle situation, it has put a kink in getting a part time job. So, they are trying to work out a solution, and I'm making due with what I've got, being grateful and thankful that I have any transportation at all, and trying my best to be patient. That's not something I've ever been great at, maybe this is one way that my Heavenly Father is trying to teach me to be more patient? Hadn't thought of that until just now.

 So, since I put getting an additional part time job on the back burner for the time being, I decided to help my step dad at his green house while I do have a car. He had more work than what he could handle on his own. He's trying to get part of his business moved to his house and just sell to landscapers from there, and has also been busy getting his fall crops ready. While I was up there working, I got to thinking, and wondered if it would be possible for me to just run a small flower shop for the other customers at the greenhouse. I could just have a couple of houses with some various flowers, not as big of an operation as what he runs now though. My girls could help, and I could even continue homeschooling up there (which is one thing I've liked about working here the last few years, that I can bring my girls and their school stuff, and it's all very flexible and relaxed), and maybe even sell some of my Avon up there! I am still selling Avon, even though it's not going as well as I would like, but if I had product on hand, and could have it sitting there by the register, maybe some of the sweet little old ladies who come to buy flowers, might buy a bottle of lotion to put on their hands for when they're done planting, too!
Well, I had not mentioned any of this to my step dad, or anyone for that matter, but yesterday he texted me and said he wanted to talk. When I went up to talk to him, he proposed me doing something exactly like what I was thinking! He has another daughter who helps up there too and wants to continue doing the same thing, and she and I could do it together, working about 3 days a week each. I think that sounds great! I'm going to pray about it for sure before committing to it, but I really do think that it was God putting it in our minds.

So, that may take care of the more long-term financial situation, which is an answer to prayers, but right now, things are still so hard. We're out of dog food, I've been borrowing money from my daughter for gas, etc. And now, I'm out of money, and out of resources. I'm also trying to continue getting things organized in my house, and even more quickly this time, since I made the discovery of what's left of where people have been blowing stuff up behind my house. I'm ready to move even more now, and my mom and step dad agree, and are trying to help me find a place. I was looking at moving southwest of here to what's known as the Tri-city area because they have a really good, active homeschool group and 4-H groups in that area, and it's a lot more peaceful and quiet, not as much city moving out there like it is to the east. I've also considered moving east, which is more where I grew up at, and is home. Which, if I do this with the greenhouse, then that is where I will be. And, we are pretty involved out this way anyways, between the art class we attend on Fridays, Karate on Mondays (both are free, and both are activities that are important to Faith, art being her gift, and I want to nurture these areas, and I can't afford classes that cost), and Faith is also the Reporter for her 4-H group. So, it's looking to me like east is where the Lord wants me to be.