Today is December 28th

Today is December 28th. Christmas is over, it went well. Reality is back in motion and our kids were blessed to get a lot of spectacular presents thanks almost entirely to people giving us money or actual presents straight from their Santa lists. Thank you to those people. Middlest will be 7 in a few days and we were scrabbling to figure out how to pull off her party. An actual birthday and a party should have food the child chooses and seeing as how most of our food is coming from food pantries I wasn't really sure how that was going to happen. Luckily a friend is trading some of Hubs plumbing services for grocery money. Yay!! Another friend has chairs and tables to lend so we don't have to rent a shelter at the park, a prospect that seemed very well impossible. Shortly after Middlest's birthday I start college, this is huge, this means that I will actively be doing something to ensure we are not broke losers forever even if it will take some time before we benefit from this move. That same day Littlest (who hold on, needs her butt wiped right now)starts at the college's child development center. She has, for quite some time, been excited about starting "school". Today is December 28th and I saw my husband cry, oh not a full blown cry but he started to and you could see him trying so hard not to. This is a man who has literally not cried since he was a child. Things are that rough and I am trying to hide it from the kids since Biggest worries too much about such stuff. Hubs will start college in the summer, he already has an AA but now he's going to get a degree that will actually help him get a job. We are poor but we are not dumb and we are not losers. We are going to go back on food stamps but we are not lazy. We are blessed, by wonderful friends, by a Government willing to help those out who need it and to have intelligent, healthy daughters and each other. Today is December 28th and I am thankful.