I won the lottery...

Or so it will feel like it.  If you ever want to feel like you won the lottery, just go three and a half weeks without a paycheck or any incoming money of any kind, and live on $21.00 for those three and a half weeks.  Wow, hopefully on Friday the 18th we will get our first paycheck.  Man, the things we need.  You don't realize what corners you can cut when you really have to.  I think out of this entire experience, I will be so glad to be able to stop wiping my kids bums (have to use as little toilet paper as possible - got to make it stretch).  You know if you have kids, you have gone into the bathroom at one time or another and found almost an entire roll wadded up in the tank.  I needed to avoid that issue.  I will also be glad to get some toothpaste so my kids can brush their teeth again.  We ran out of toothpaste yesterday.

But looking at my husbands pay amount,(and it is only about 1/4 of what he will earn once he passes his boards) it looks like we won the lottery.  It will be so nice to be able to run to the store and pick up what we need whenever we will need it.

In fact, that noise the car has been making since about the third day of arriving here, I finally took the van in to get an estimate as to what it was and what it will cost.  Come to find out it is the front and rear motor mounts that have gone out, and need to be replaced.  Now here is the strange part.  I go into panic mode seeing how much it will cost us (remembering I'm still on our old way of paying, and not having any money) and when I pick up Will, I tell him the bad news.  I am apologizing up one side and down the other, and freaking out over how are we ever going to pay for this, and all the while Will is sort of snickering to himself.  I ask him whats so funny.  He puts his arms around me, and says "hon, it's OK, we can manage that just fine".  I keep saying yeah right, how, and he tells me that he gets paid weekly, and we will have more than enough to meet our needs this time, and that soon we will be able to have a reserve.  When I looked at the numbers he was right, but still being in that mindset of "where is the money going to come from" is hard to get out of.  It will take me some time to get over freaking out over stuff like this.  Thank goodness for Will.

Also on another note, since the gentleman Will is working with in the pharmacy is Pakistani, he doesn't care about Sundays off, and so he gave Will all Sunday's off. That is great.  He gets to go to church with us all the time.  I'm so grateful for all my blessings.  Now if they will deliver on Friday the check, then we will truly be blessed, and things will work out.