The Good is just around the Corner

I haven't blogged in a long time because we have had all kinds of changes in our lives over the last few months and we have been busy trying to make decisions and get a new way of life figured out. I would say that since May I have gone through some of the scariest moments in my life so far. First of all Matt lost his job and that is really scary when we depend on his income to live. Unemployment took about 6 weeks to make a decision. So we have been living on my income alone and just taking it one day at a time with lots of faith and many many prayers. We are finally past the devistation and moving onto the opportunity side of things. Matt worked really hard over the last month to find another job. He spent many hours sending out resumes and the good news is he has been offered a position with Country Financial which he had to go through 5 interviews to get but he isn't on the payroll until he is licensed which is going to take another month plus. So we are still hanging in there. Our health insurance ran out the end of June and we are still trying to find some coverage for the family to get us through until we can get coverage through Matt's new job. My job does not offer health insurance. Independent insurance is expensive, of course there is affordable coverage out there that can get you by but if anything happens you are facing a large deductible. Which I guess would be better than footing the whole bill if anything major happened. Anyway, it is a huge change for us because we have had really good health coverage through Intel and we have not had to budget this before. Another change that is still in the air is child care. Before, we had our schedules arranged that the kids would be taken care of between Matt, myself and Grandma Dallmann. With the new change in Matt's schedule we aren't sure just yet how we are going to get it worked out. I keep praying that I will not have to take my kids to daycare. There are many reason why I don't want to and among one of those is the cost. Again we haven't had to budget for this before and don't know where the money will come from.
Once Matt got the news that Country wanted him on their team we were so excited and felt a huge relief. At the same time we got news that the Unemployment was accepted and he would begin receiving a weekly check. All good news. So we were looking up about things and beginning to feel pretty good......until this week came along.
I am off of work this week with no pay. That stinks...I used up all my vacation time when I had Myles and Dr. Ross always closes the office this week. Then on July 2nd we were driving into Portland and a kid ran into the back of our car. It wasn't a really hard hit which is good and we are all ok. But now we have to deal with taking the car to get fixed, and then trying to find a way not to have to come up with a $500 deductible up front. On July 4th I drove to Target and then to Kohl's and when I tried to start the car to come home it wouldn't start. So I started walking home on a very very hot day and luckily Kristen came to pick me up. We had the car towed and it turned out that it was a dead battery which cost us $92. On July 6th I was upstairs making Keegans bed and he was running around up there. He came into his room with his mouth open and drooling pointing inside his mouth. I ran over to see what he had in there thinking something was lodged in his throat but instead smelt Mentholatum. I knew right away that he had gotten into the humidifier and I didn't know if he had drank it or what so we had to call Poison Control. Luckily it turned out not to be a big deal. We just had to wipe his mouth out and give his a popsickle to get the yucky taste out. Apparently it happens alot according to the operator and unless he drinks half a bottle it wouldn't harm him. So we are beginning to think that things wills start to settle down and then last night, July 7th we were eating dinner and Keegan was sitting on a chair at the table and I don't know what he did but the chair fell backwards to the ground with him in it. He started screaming as we rushed to pick him up and realized that his mouth was bleeding. If you didn't know, I learned this trick from my mom. To stop bleeding in the mouth you pour a spoon of sugar on the area and the bleeding stops, not only that but the kid doesn't mind because it tastes good. I don't know what he hit his teeth on but he knocked both of his front bottom teeth loose. Again we have no insurance right now so we were scrambling at what to do. We called the on call Dr. for the pediatriacian and again they said to give him a popsickle for the swelling and keep and eye on him. Matt was terrified that the teeth were broken and they were obiously moved (crooked) so he called Kaiser, which is where Matt and I HAD insurance. They said that since Keegan wasn't a member they wouldn't give Matt any advise. Matt said, he is only 2, you won't give advice about a 2 year old that just knocked his teeth loose and then he said to the lady, you have no heart for a 2 year old and the lady replied, NO. So then we called a dentist that we had used in the past and he called us back and told us to come in first thing this morning and he would look at Keegan's teeth. We told him that we didn't have any insurance and the dentist said just bring him in and we will figure out what to do. Then last night as we were settling down for bed I went to use the bathroom and Matt was holding Myles when Keegan decided to roll off of our bed onto his head. It made a terrible noise followed by loud crying. I think that is just scared him more than anything but still scary. Our nerves were fried by the time we tried to sleep. Oh yeah and then Myles had a tummy ache a cried and cried for about an hour before he went to sleep. Then Keegan woke up screaming about midnight and I think he might have had a tummy ache. We were up with him for about an hour. Finally this morning we went to the dentist and they took an x-ray. He did knock both teeth loose and they shifted from the bone. There wasn't anything the dentist could do at this point. He said to keep an eye on them for infection or if the teeth start to turn grey. If they turn grey that means the nerve is dying and the teeth will have to be removed. Good thing they are just baby teeth and would fall out anyway, but he would be toothless for about 4 years. We are praying that the teeth will just heal on their own and just be a bit crooked. The dentist's office was very sympathetic and they only charged us $20. I guess the receptionist told me $26 but I thought she said $20 so she just took it and said that was fine she would just write off the rest. How lucky is that.
So that brings me to the title of this post. The good for us just has to be around the corner. With everything we will get through this and are looking forward to the time when things will be calm and peaceful around here. Until then, please just keep praying for us.