by Heidi Hauptly

Created on: May 14, 2009

Blessings in life usually do not come without some trial in the process. I tell you this from going through it myself. My husband in September of 2006 was fired from his job in which he had for five years. I began as I usually do with my tendency to flip out. Lots of questions came to my mind. How are we going to pay bills? How are we going to eat? How fast can my husband get another job? What in the world do we do? Questions can be a natural thing after one looses a job and even more so since he was there for quite a time period.

Once the fear of questions and unanswered unknowns had left my thoughts they then turned to my husbands crazy idea. He then told me he wanted to go back to school. To which I then replied," Are you crazy?" He told me that he had given it some thought and seemed like the only logical thing to do. So he went his first semester in business management. After his first semester he found out that there was not much money to be made in that field so he switched. He then decided to go get his LPN in nursing. I then thought it was a rather crazy thing to do. The same day he started his first semester of college was when we found out I was pregnant with our second child.

I was a little confused as to how he was going to handle this let alone how I was going to handle it. A husband out of work and going to school. I had but one question. How can we do this? After much prayer, we took a breather and it actually sank in so we knew that it would be a long difficult road. A long difficult road that only lasted one year thankfully. In March of 2008 he graduated college and had taken his test he needed to be certified by the state and it was official. The blessing in disguise here was the desperate need for my husband to go to college and which at the time we didn't know if it was a good thing or bad.

What helped us to get through him working 40 hours and going to school full time was May of 2008 during my husbands nursing school our precious daughter was born. Our son was 5 at the time and I was not ready for a second one. I didn't even know that I wanted two until she was born. Now that she is two years old it was and is one of the best blessings you could ever imagine. What a true precious gift she is to us each day. What you go through in life may at the time seem like a hard road but you don't realize until you get to the end that they were little blessings in disguise.

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