A year and a half ago, my husband Brad was laid off from his job in Minnesota. We had only lived in Minnesota for a year, so we had no other job prospects in the area or history of family, friends, and church to support us. So we reluctantly packed up our apartment and storage […]
Archive for the ‘Unemployment’ Category
Book Review: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
March 31st, 2012 
Jessica 
Posted in Reading, Unemployment 
Comments Off on Book Review: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In AmericaTithing Through the Hard Times
January 14th, 2012 Jessica “Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first-fruits of all your produce.” Proverbs 3:9 When I was a child, my parents decided to give us a weekly allowance. Five dollars seemed like a lot back then! But my parents had some stipulations. A dollar must be placed in a “Savings” envelope, a dollar […]
How to Survive Moving In With Your Parents
January 11th, 2012 Jessica You’ve got to admit it: No one dreams of moving back in with their parents after they have reach adulthood. Especially not with a spouse and/or children as part of the arrangement. But with the current economy, more and more grown children are moving back in with their parents to make ends meet. How are […]
How To Survive A Lay-Off
December 6th, 2011 Jessica It’s been 15 months since Brad was laid off from his last job, and 3 months since he began his new position here in sunny California. We haven’t figured it all out, but here are a few things we learned along the way: Pray. A lot. Be Specific. Be a Team. This is not the […]
California Dreaming
September 24th, 2011 Jessica Have you missed reading my posts lately? It’s hard to believe that 4 weeks have already passed since my last post! Our family has been incredibly busy during this time. I sold my car on September 1, taking a crash course in Craigslist, inspections, and car sales. Brad was invited to California for another week, […]
The Abundant Husband: We’re Moving to California!
August 24th, 2011 Jessica “‘Come,’ he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus.” Matthew 14: 29 Here we go again! Like Peter jumping out of the boat to walk on the water with Jesus, we too are about to take another leap of faith. As this summer […]
Don’t look back
July 8th, 2011 Jessica In my daily Bible reading, I’ve been working my way through a list in my Bible entitled “5 Minutes Reading About Women of the Bible.” It’s been interesting as I’ve moved through the scriptures from Eve to Ruth, studying all the women in between. This morning I read about Deborah (Judges 4:1-5:31). Deborah told Barack […]
June 24, 2011: Gratitude
June 24th, 2011 Jessica Yesterday, I sat on the front porch swing reading a book, with Oliver sitting beside me. I twiddled a pencil in my fingers while he gnawed on the fingers of my other hand. It was warm, but there was a light breeze. The neighbor across the street mowed his lawn, and white clouds drifted lazily […]
October 5, 2010: Ferocious Fighter
June 3rd, 2011 Jessica “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the […]
May 27, 2011: Job Search Update
May 28th, 2011 Jessica Substitute Teaching: On May 10, Brad finished where he had been a substitute-teacher for the past 3 months. He received a favorable recommendation from the staff there, and offered his services if they should need him again in the future. Swimming Instructor/Lifeguard: On May 11, Brad began working at a day camp as a […]
