Eventful Year in Review

"That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:7)

Not in any particular order but here are some of the things have gone on this last year and a half in a family.

Oh! the fun of a flooded kitchen! We were sitting in the living room and we heard a loud whining from the dishwasher we went in and turned it off and then went back in the living room and started a discussion on needing a new dishwasher and how we are going to afford one. A bit later I went into the kitchen to find the dishwasher had leaked and there was water all over the kitchen floor. I was sloshing through a large puddle. Water was gushing off the laminate flooring. Luckily it didn’t get into any other room.

Now not only  do we have to replace a dishwasher but we have to cover a $3,000 deductible. Now the cost of a new dishwasher seems so little. Hopefully we can do assome of the work ourselves to cover some of it.

So here is the year in review: 

- 7 days in the psych hospital 

- I got laid off a year and a half ago after coming back to work from the hospital.

- The washing machine went out
- Our stove died
- Just before Thanksgiving I had my appendix out.
- cancer diagnosis and treatment.  I was having bad back pain and needed an MRI that the insurance would not pay for to see what was going on. About a month went by and the pain was just too much and the Holy Ghost prompted me to just go get an MRI and pay for it ourselves. Our doctor reviewed the results with us and indicated that I had cancer. We went to the Huntsman Cancer Institute and a month later it was confirmed I had a rare and aggressive form of Leukemia.

- Our car then had to have a new catalytic converter installed that cost $1,500. All during my leukemia treatment and recovery.

- Sherrie got her old Part-Time job back as a lunch lady.
- Dish washer leaked

- Dryer died

But through all this the Lord has blessed us.