Well, the Lord has provided a job for Tim, and we are so thankful for it!! Tim is going to be working for the Juvenile Detention Center in Wichita. He is going to be working 3rd shift from 11pm-7am. There are some positive things about this job and time.
1. It does not interfere with church times...of course he will be pretty tired on Sundays if he is working the night before and has to go pretty much straight to church, but at least it does not conflict with the times in any way.
2. It should be a pretty easy job as when he gets to work, the boys will already be sleeping. (The hardest part may be to stay awake!!) His job is to do rounds 3 times an hour to check up on the boys. He will have 11 rooms he has to check just to make sure they boys are asleep. They are all locked up in there own individual rooms so hopefully there will be no problems there. Then he has a little paper work to fill out and some laundry to do. Other than that though, he thinks he may have a couple hours free during this shift to study and read and such so that is good. He does have to wake the boys up at 6:30 am and get them on their way to breakfast but other than that, they should always be asleep.
3. There is a little pay increase as he is working third shift so that is helpful as well.
Of course the hardest thing (for me at least) is that I will not have him home at night. I do not like being alone at night, but I will have to get used to it. But....we are so thankful for the Lord's provision in this area of a job. He officially starts on 9-28 (which is ironically his birthday), but he does not have a schedule yet so who knows. He is doing the paper work tomorrow. Then, next week, he will do on the job training. The first week of Oct. or so, he has day classes he has to go to. After that, it will be all 3rd shift. Thanks for those who have been praying for us!!!
The next step now is to find housing. We were really thinking of buying a house, but at this point, we both feel the best step is to just rent. So, Tim and I were out a few hours today looking at apartments. (That is very tiring...) We have a couple we are interested in, but we are waiting to make a decision right now. I will update more on housing later when we have made a decision.
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Congratulations! I'm glad you found something. I hope it works out as well. I've been thinking about you guys a lot lately. Hope you are still feeling good. Megan will be here soon!!!
Hmmm... sounds like a very interesting job. You'll have to post again once he's been at it a little while to give us more details!
Yeah, I 'm so happy. I understand you're not liking to be home at night, I will be thinking of you, and God always gives us the grace we need when we need it. :-)
YAY! We're so excited about the new job! We've been praying for you guys. Not too much longer and Megan will be here! It sure is going fast:) Miss you guys!!!
Congratulations!! How exciting for Tim to have a job, and just think since he does laundry at work he can do all of your laundry. :) I'll be praying for you guys as you all adjust to this new schedule.
Rebecca Townsend
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