Ideal Fitness :)

Well it's only called Ideal Fitness because it's a simple gym without all the high fee's of other gym's. For just 19.95 a month you have a membership at a local gym that offers all the equipment you need to help keep or get your body into shape. They don't have all the "other stuff" most gyms do, no pools, no volleyball courts etc...you're not paying for a recreation center, just for a good workout for less than 1.00 a day. Awesome!

Anyways, this is where my husband is working his 2nd job. He'll get paid 8.50hr and at about 23hours a week it roughly translates and extra $700.00 a month towards our expenses. Praise the Lord for his provision as between this and AT&T it should be enough to meet our monthly needs. Praise God for a husband that is willing to work two jobs to take care of his family and make it so his wife doesn't have to go to work.

The other awesome thing is it is relatively easy work, cleaning, basic customer assistance, and a few phone calls. I'm really glad that God has given him another job that won't leave him stressed out before he goes into a job that can cause more stress.

Please keep him in your prayers as this month will be a difficult month for him. He'll be working at Ideal from 4:30am-9:30am and then at AT&T from 2-11pm...so he'll have some very choppy sleep this month. Next month he is going to try to get a 10-7 or 11-8 shift at AT&T which shouldn't be to difficult to do as most people don't really want those shifts. But he is set in his schedule for this month. I told him that his sleep will be kind of like having a newborn all over again. God works in mysterious ways when preparing us for life changes.

Please pray for me. I will admit I am used to being spoiled. My husband is a wonderful man that usually gets up with Ellie in the morning, takes care of her to allow me to get a few more minutes of rest since I sleep so poorly most nights. He will even do the dishes for me most days before he goes to work. His 2nd job now means new challenges and adjustments for me to make as well and the more I pray about it the more I realize that I really need to help support my husband as much as possible. His task at hand is not an easy one and the least I can do for him is give him some easy foods that he can warm up for breakfast and a clean home for him. I never realized how much the difference an organized home makes to my detailed oriented husband's stress level until I observe him coming home to it. Having the house in order really does help him to allow his mind to just relax and go to bed. The wonderful thing about my husband though is that he understand that every mom tends to have 'those days' where nothing gets done and he loves me just the same when that happens.

I feel like I've written a lot but at the same time not nearly enough because there is more to what I am feeling today than just these things. But, alas, I must go.