New way of living

So with the birth of our fourth child Cody, we have discovered he has food allergies. He can't eat gluten, dairy, or eggs. So we as a family will be removing those from our house with the exception of eggs. I wont be baking or cooking with eggs, but if someone wants to make them selves some eggs that's fine. I will try and keep up to date with the blog on how this is going.
This is going to be a huge change for our family. I don't see the gluten being as much as a challenge as the dairy. Because we love cheese, yogurt, cream cheese, cheese, and some more cheese. I'm also going to have get back to basics and cooking way more from scratch. Which I was doing before but was so tired I started buying more convenient foods. So not much of that going on in our house any more.
I can say that when we do find something that is gluten, dairy, and egg free, I feel like I hit the jack pot. Like just the other day at Costco I found some chocolate chip cookies! And the best part is they taste amazing! Even my picky husband likes them.
So goal one is to use up the food we have in the house that contains gluten and dairy. I'm socking up on the new foods that are gluten free, and that we can use for cooking with in place of the dairy and gluten foods we used to cook with. We will probably end up donating a lot of food to the local food bank as well.

Home Made Yogut

So if your kids are like my kids they would eat yogurt all day long every day. I don't know about you but as a single income family of 5 soon to be 6 I can't afford that. So what else was I to do. I went looking online for ideas on home made yogurt and found it to be super easy. You don't need a fancy yogurt maker or anything like that. I used my crock pot. Now I have made it on the stove top before, but I found the crock pot to be a 1000 times easier.

So here is what you need for your home made yogurt:
Milk- I use whole milk, but have used 1% as well and it came out just fine. I have heard that you should not use skim milk. If you want to do a dairy free yogurt then you might want to do some more looking online for other sites that would have better info. I do plan on making a dairy free one someday but just have not done it yet. But when I do I will do a post about it.
Starter Yogurt- This is a yogurt from the store that has LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES in it. That is a very important part or your yogurt will not turn out right.
Crock pot- any size will do, but the bigger the bigger the batch of yogurt.

Take your milk and pour it into your crock pot to the top. Turn it on high and let it sit. You want to have little bubbles around the top, but not boiling. It should be around 200 degrees at the highest temps. What your doing is killing off any bacteria in the milk.
Next turn your crock pot off and let it cool down to about 115-120, this is important that it's below 120 degrees.
Once it's cooled off scoop out some of the warm milk into another container, you don't need much maybe 1/2 to 1 cup of milk. Take your starter yogurt, about a 1/2-1cup depending on how much milk you are using. (you can't use to much) and mix that with the milk you scooped out. Mix this well. This will warm the yogurt up before adding it to the main mix. Once that's done then pour it into your crock pot and mix well. You don't need to make bubbles while mixing, you can be gentle about it.
Once it's all mixed up take your crock pot and place it in your oven, make sure your oven is turned off. Wrap a towel around it and let it sit over night.
The longer it sits the thicker it will get. I have let mine sit for up to 14 hours before.
The next day take the crock pot out of the oven, remove your lid and check out your yogurt. Now there will be a watery part on top, you can either just mix that in (which will make your yogurt a little thinner) or scrape it off the top, that's what I do.
Your home made yogurt will not be as thick as store bought yogurt, because most store bought yogurt contains pectin in it to help thicken it up. You can however strain your yogurt through cheese cloth to help make it thicker.
Scoop your yogurt into containers and place them in the fridge and your done. That's it. It's ready to eat.
If you want to add flavor like vanilla or honey to your yogurt you can, add it when mixing your starter yogurt into the batch of milk.
Also set aside about 1/2-1 cup of your yogurt you just made for your starter yogurt for next time. You can do that about four times before you need to buy another starter yogurt.

We now use our home made yogurt in place of sour cream a lot. We have put it in tacos, and made ranch dressing with it so far. It came out perfect, though I would not add honey or vanilla to the batch if you plan on doing that, not sure that would taste just right.
Enjoy!

Car seat safety

There are a lot of great car seats on the market today to help keep your kids safe. Well the wonderful people over at My Precious Kid are doing a give away!   http://www.mypreciouskid.com/blog/2013/01/diono-radian-r120-car-seat-giveaway/ follow the link to enter! But hurry today is the last day! 

How to stretch a whole chicken into many meals

So you have a whole chicken you need to cook and you want to get as many meals out of it as possible. Well how many meals you will get out of it depends on the size of your family you are feeding. You should be able to get at least two meals out of it no matter what.

Day 1: Place the whole chicken in your crock pot. If your chicken is still frozen make sure you get it in there in the morning so it will be done by dinner time. If it's thawed out then you can place it later in the day like around 12 or so. Or you can cook it all day on low as well.

Frozen cook on high most of the day, check with a meat thermometer to be sure it's fully cooked.
Thawed either low starting in the morning, or medium heat in the afternoon.

Once the chicken is in the crock pot add your spices and seasonings. You can add things like a pinch of salt, garlic, bay leaf (this will come in handy the next day for sure), thyme, rosemary, and just about anything you think sounds good. Play around with the spices and find some your family really likes.
There is no need to add water, let the chicken cook in it's natural juices for the day.
DINNER TIME: Now your chicken is done it's time for diner, I normally pair mine with a side of rice and a veggie for the first night. It's simple and easy.
When you go to clean up after dinner let your crock pot cool down and place the whole container with all the left over chicken in the fridge. This will make it easier for you tomorrow for dinner.

Day 2: Pull your crock pot with your chicken left overs out of the fridge and place it back in the base of your crock pot. Fill the crock pot with water and make sure the whole chicken is covered. Set the crock pot to medium heat and let it simmer most of the day.
Now you can think about what you might want to make with your chicken, there are a number of recipe's out there that call for chicken. But keep in mind the spices you used yesterday while cooking your chicken when choosing another dish. I have done a chicken casserole, open faced chicken sandwich with gravy, chicken over rice with gravy, things like that. This will also depend on how much chicken you have left on the bird. If you have a large family there might not be much left. If that's the case you can skip down to day three. If you have a small family you might be able to de-bone the chicken and get two days of "Day 2" out of it. ( I will explain de-boning in a moment).
De-boning chicken. Once your chicken has been simmering in the crock pot most of day under water it's time to de-bone it.
You will need two forks, a plate, bowl, and a pasta claw thing (don't know what they are called for sure). Take your claw and soup out some of the chicken and place it on the plate. Take your two forks (it will be very hot so I would not want to touch it) and start to pull the meat away from the bones. Place the meat in the bowl as you pull it off the bone. Keep doing this until you have all the meat off the bones. Place the bones, skin, and fat back in the crock pot. You now have your chicken for your second dish all ready to go. Let your crock pot cool off and place back in the fridge.
Day 3: Place your crock pot back in the base and place on high for a couple of hours. After a little while get out a strainer and strain all the bones and fat out of your broth. Now add some chopped up carrots, celery, pea's, and other veggies you would like to have in your chicken noodle soup. Taste your broth to see if it needs any more spices and seasonings. Turn your crock pot to low and let it simmer all day.
Just before dinner take some of the broth out and mix a little bit of either flour or corn starch in a cup. make sure to blend well, and add it back into your soup to help thicken the soup up. If you want to add some dumplings do so about 20 mins before dinner time so they have time to cook. I just use Bisquick for my dumplings.

So there you have between two and four or more days (again depending on family size) of dinners from one whole chicken.

We have a kitchen!

So the kitchen is put together finally. Working stove, dishwasher and fridge. Only have our glassware, mixer, and bread machine to dig out and then I think the whole kitchen is unpacked. Right now we are on the hunt for a wood burning stove. I think we may have found one but they said they would not hold it for us until tomorrow so I have to call when we leave in the morning and see if they still have it, it's on the way out to my parents house where we are going tomorrow already.
So this weekend will be as follows, Friday going to my parents house to get more of our stuff and borrow a ladder. Saturday cleaning out the gutters before all the rain gets here for the year, this is Oregon after all. Sunday my birth grandparents are coming over to see the house for the first time, and take a look at everything, plus my birth grandpa was a contractor and said he can give us a hand with our bathroom remodel when we start it.
So we have a lot going on, oh and we still have to finish painting Ross's room before he gets home from Idaho this next week. We will get there and we have all the time in the world to put everything together.
Oh and the kitchen is put together but I'm STILL scrubbing the faces of the doors and everything. Plus once we get the house all put together then we will be packing up one section at a time and sanding it down to paint it. Oh it never ends it never ends.

Making our house a home

So last Saturday we moved into our new house. We love our house even with all it's little problems, and yes we keep finding more little problems as we go along. But really we don't mind it's ours, we don't have to ask to do anything to it, we can get a pet when ever we want and not have to pay a deposit or something like that. We painted the kids rooms, Peyton purple and Ross orange.
So far with moving in we have fixed the hot and cold water knobs for the washer, that was a bigger project then we thought when we started it. Because of the age of our house we had to get a special adapter for our water lines. So ended up having to cut the drywall and the water lines to put the adapters on so we could put new knobs on. Good so that's all working fine now, go to hook up the washer and the lines leak, okay fine not a big deal just needs some new O rings. Well after starting a load of cloth diapers I hear the washer stop so I go down to unload it to hang the diapers up to dry. Well after opening the washer I see that it's still full of water :( The washer does not work, it wont spin or agitate or anything but fill with water and make a buzzing noise that smells like something is burning. So I pull out all the wet diapers ring them out and take them to the laundry mat to finish them up. Get on Craigslist and find another washer in town install and bam! we are back in business.

So on to the next project, fixing the upstairs toilet that wont stop running. This was one pretty easy and we did not run into any drama with it, thank goodness. We still have to fix the downstairs toilet since it just runs as well but that project can wait for a little bit.

We are now back upstairs again working on a few more things. I went to load the dishwasher the other morning and when I pulled out the lower drawer the upper one fell down inside the dishwasher, oops. So I called my mom and asked for the extra one that she had in her garage if we could have it. She said yes, because she loves me so much, and Pat is now installing that one. It turned into a little bit more of a project then we thought but we are learning to expect that with our house. We also got to see what the old kitchen floor looked like, so glad they put new flooring down yuck. And our floor under the dishwasher has some water damage from a leak under the kitchen sink so that has been added to our repair list as well. It's not something that needs to be done right away so it can wait just a little bit before we go tearing up the kitchen floor.

I will fill you all in tomorrow or in a few days about our stove adventure we went on yesterday. But right now I need to get back to unpacking and putting some more things away to make this house a home.

I'm a big kid now

So we are buying our first house. We "should" be signing papers any day now. But we are not holding our breath since we have been thinking that for almost three weeks now. But it will happen in due time, we just hate the waiting game. Plus it does not help living with my parents and really wanting to be in our own place.

So during this time I have been reading reading reading like crazy on ways to save money in our new house. So far I have been making un-paper towels. I have been upcycling flannel sheets that I have been buying at the thrift store for less then a $1 each. I have also been making family cloth out of them as well, for pee only for our family only. We will have TP for guest and others to use :) Anything that I can make that we can reuse over and over will help us save money in the long run.

I also have been planning a nice garden at our new home. I have it in my head what I want to do where. I have started buying some herb plants that I will plant off our back deck in a pot to help cut down on having to buy herbs at the store whether they be fresh or dried. I also plan on planting some raspberries, blueberries and strawberries as well. Last weekend Pat and I took the kids and went blackberry picking and I made a batch of blackberry jam. I hope to make a few more batches this year, but with the weather being so mild the berries are taking longer to turn. Which weather wise is fine by me I hate the heat :) But as for produce I wish it would warm up just a little so we could get the some good berries and veggies going. I hope that the price of everything does not go up to much because of the weather.   

So once we get all settled into our new home I will keep updating on how we are saving money as a family. The grocery shopping will be a challenge since we are limited to where we shop if we don't want to drive over an hour to get to. But really with the area we are going to be living in it's all worth it.

Wow Long time no post :)

So it's been a while since I posted and I thought I would update what has been going on in my life right now.
Pat and I are buying a house! We found a house a few weeks ago in Columbia City that we just fell in love with that was just a little over our price range but we can make it work. We have been waiting for them to de-winterize the house and turn the water back on so we can do our home inspection. They finally got that done on Monday so Thursday is the inspection. I can't wait. I hope nothing to major comes up and everything checks out just fine
So since we are moving into our own home I have been trying to come up with ways that we can save money. I thought I would try and start blogging about ways that I'm saving money in hopes to help others save some money as well.

 One thing I did was start making my own laundry soap. I used the Duggar's family recipe found here. I did add a little lavender and tea tree oil to mine for some sent. I have read that whites don't come out very white and can start looking a little dingy with this but have also read that people just add some oxy boost and it fixes that problem (just add to your whites load).
 One batch will make 10 gal of laundry soap. I don't think I will need to make/buy any for a while :)
 So that's my tip for today on saving money. Making your own laundry soap. It's super easy, and comes out to cost about .02 a load to wash. :)

Time to let it all out

So I have vented about this and that every here and there. Vented to other people. But I just need to get it all out in one place.
We are no longer moving to Spokane. We took a four day trip up there to look at apartments and get a feel for the area. Two days after we got back we found out the move is off. Pat could very well be laid off at work any time. They have talked about lay offs and he only has one person that would be let go before he would.

Pat is trying to get some equipment in place for if a lay off does happen so that he can do side jobs and bring in some extra money. Yes he would be able to get unemployment, but it wont be as much as he is making now. But in order to make money we would need to spend money, money we don't have.

We are going to have to trade our truck in, we have not gotten any offers on it at all in the last month that we have had it up for sale. I keep dropping the price on it as low as I can. Plus still sitting on the trailer as well. Pat's car is on it's last leg as well. So we will trade in the car and the truck for a newer car for Pat.

I just feel like we keep hitting walls all over the place. I would love a door to open up, or heck even a window.

Changes, once again

So our move to Spokane fell through. We had already moved back in with my parents to sell our truck and trailer for the move and had everything ready to go. We had take a four day trip to Spokane to look at apartments and see where we wanted to live. Two days after we got back if when we found out it's not going to happen. I was crushed. I had been looking forward to the move since we found out. Both Pat and I felt that this is where God wanted us to go. But God apparently has other plans for us. So we are moving forward with the selling of the truck and trailer. We have sold all our quads as well. Once everything is sold and taken care of we are hopping to be able to buy a house.
So this is where we are at right now. I have 38 days as of today until I'm full term and little Jordan can safely make her way into this world. So right now I'm just taking the time to get ready for her. 

So here it is

So we are moving. Pat's job is moving him to Spokane WA. We will most likely be moving in June of this year after the baby is born. This is a big change for our family but we have complete faith in God that He is guiding us on His path. This is going to be a good thing for our family. I'm not looking forward to moving away from all our friends and family, but I am looking forward to the next chapter in our lives. I will write more about details as we know them. But for right now we know that we are going to Spokane WA in June.

God is good.

So there is a lot going on in our little family, most of which I can't talk about just yet. But wanted to update something on here. We are hopping to know more tomorrow. Pat and I both feel that God is guiding this 100%. We have full trust and faith in Him on this possible change in our family. He is laying out the path He wants us to follow and we are walking down that path holding His hand. So I hope this is enough of a small update for right now. Like I said I hope to add more to this by some time tomorrow but we will see.

Knowledge is power, but when is to much going to do more harm then good?

Knowledge is power most of the time. But I have heard about people who look up medical information online and end up going way over board and freaking themselves out for no reason. We this past weekend I ended up at labor and delivery for an infection. I was treated and sent home with instructions on what to do at home to take care of myself. While I was there I had to give a urine sample and was told that they would call if they found something but did not feel I need to wait the hour for the results.
Well today I get a call from the doctor that I saw this weekend. My urine sample came back with GBS+. Now for those of you that don't know what that is, it's Group B strep, or Group B Streptococcus (GBS). Most pregnant women will get tested between 35 and 37 weeks of pregnancy. This is done by a swab of your girl parts and the other end :) a urine sample is not common practice of testing for GBS. I feel very lucky that I was tested and they found this. After doing some reading online today, and being told by the doctor that I'm now at an even higher risk of passing this on to my baby girl I'm a little freaked out. I have seen first had what can go wrong with GBS in an infant during birth. I used to care for a little girl who contracted GBS from her mother during birth and developed red meningitis, she will never be able to care for herself. She is severely  mentally retarded and physically handicapped.
After doing more reading online today I found out this is more common then Downs Syndrome, Spinal bifida, and the number one cause of life threatening infections in newborns since 1960. I feel that most doctors and midwifes blow this off, they will tell the mom that they are GBS+ and will need antibiotics during labor and birth and leave it at that. When really there is so much more to it then that. Please if you are readying this and are pregnant or know someone who is pregnant show them this information, not to freak them out that something WILL go wrong, but so they have the information to make the best choice for them and their baby. Knowledge is power, and in this case more knowledge the better since most health care professionals don't seem to give that much information about this.

http://www.groupbstrepinternational.org/info_main.html
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/GBS.html
http://www.givingbirthnaturally.com/group-b-streptococcus.htmlThese are just a couple of the web sites that I have gathered some information about GBS on, there are lots more out there.

Our debt update

So I sat down the other day and went over all our bills and debts. I then added everything up that we still owe, right about $62K in debts still. But the great news is that since July of this year we have paid off about $3,800.00 worth of debts. To some that may not seem like a lot and others that might seems like a great deal of money. But for us, a single income family with two kids and one on the way, that is a big deal. We are so proud of ourselves to have paid that much off in that short amount of time.
I look forward to next July when we have been paying things off for a full year and can see how much we have paid off.

It's true what they say

Before you have kids most can sleep through the night all night long. Once you have kids forget it! Everyone says that you will never have another good nights sleep until the kids are 18. But ya know I think even then I wont have a good nights sleep.
I used to sleep like the dead, but not since I have had kids. The littlest things will wake me up now most of the time. Even if my kids are staying at their grandparents house I still don't get a good nights sleep, I get a little better nights sleep but not great.
I'm a worrier. I worry about everything all the time. I try very hard not to and to pray about everything that I'm worrying about. But I'm only human. So I worry. For some reason my head always starts to think the worst. I can't stand that about myself really. But that's who I am so I deal with it.
Before I had kids I stayed up late, when out with my friends. Went camping and would stay up until the sun was up then go to bed. Now 8pm rolls around and I'm beat, I'm ready for bed.
So yes it's true what they say, when you have kids you will not have another good nights sleep for 18 years. Well I think longer then 18 years but I'm not there yet to be sure.

Need, Want, Give me, Why?

So this year I have been doing a lot more praying and thinking. I have been listening more to the Christian radio station in my area and it's really got me thinking about how much stuff we get every year. How much of that is a need. How much is just a want. I hate how I hear my kids always saying I want this I want that give me this give me that. I try so hard to teach them to be thankful for what they have, and that there are others out there that don't even have the basic of what they truly need to make it day to day.
So I have decided that next year I don't want anything for Christmas. People had already been shopping this year when I decided this. But next year I want anyone who was going to get me a gift to donate that money to someone some where who really needs it. Someone who does not know where their next meal is going to come from, or an origination that will give live animals to those in other countries to feed their families.
We have been blessed in so many ways from God, and we know that he will keep taking care of us know matter what. God also wants us to give to others and I know for me and my family we can give a lot more then we already do.
I don't want my kids growing up thinking that Christmas is about who gets the biggest gift, or who's list is the longest. I want them to want to give to others. To have that warm feeling when you have helped someone out, but do it because it's the right thing to do and because it's something that you want to do.
So what does your family do for the holiday's each year? Is it all about the gifts or is it all about God and his son's birth, and the message of God.

Priceless memories

So Pat and I have been talking about trying to buy his great aunts house over in Idaho. She passed a little over a year ago this year. The house has been on the market for almost two years with no bites on it yet, he keeps telling me how much he would love to own that house and to be able to live in it with all his memories and to pass those on to our kids and possibly pass the house and land onto them as well.
After doing some thinking tonight I have decided I'm jealous, jealous of his memories. Jealous of the fact that he has a house like that to go to and even possibly own someday. See for me I don't have anything like that. I have family, but not close family like he did, they have passed on now. I had a cousin like him growing up that I hung out with, but she no longer speaks to me or anyone outside her family unit. I wish I had some sort of land, property, or house in my family that had those memories to go with it. But sadly I don't, and really that's okay. That's part of the reason I think it would be so great for us to be able to own this house and it's memories for Pat.
So we have to pray, and pray a lot. We both feel that Idaho is where we are meant to be for some reason, some calling I guess you could say. Right now we have no idea how we would make it happen to be able to buy a house like that. It's not in our budget at all. We are a one income family because we both feel it's important enough for one parent to be home and raise the kids. But if God wants us to be able to move into that home then He will make it happen no matter what.
So this I pray, that God guilds us in His ways. Shows us the path that He wants us to take. He has blessed us in so many ways already and shown us so many things. I trust him, I know sometimes I lose my trust for moments but it always comes back. I'm only human. But I do have faith in God that he will guild us and show us what He wants for us in our life here on earth.

Time

While on Facebook tonight I looked at the side bar where they suggest people you may know, and I saw someone that brought back a memory.  That memory bought to mind how I never speak to some people from my past again. How some of those people I used to be so close with, close enough to call them my brother or sister even. Yet now I know nothing of their current life or how they are doing or anything.
I find it so interesting how you feel so close to someone and then a few years down the road nothing. Now I'm not talking about someone you have known for about a year and then you don't talk to any more. I'm talking about people you have grown up with, you have known since grade school, then middle school, high school and still talked with after high school even.
I understand people grow and change and can grow apart. People figure out what they want in life and out of life and you may not always fit into that "new" life style. And that's okay with me. But there are some of those friendships that you lose that hurt to lose. I have some that I wonder well what if I had done something different maybe. Or been a better friend. But then I start to think, most of the people that are no longer in my life have chosen to be distant from me. Weather it's their spouse who for some reason has a problem with me, or we just grew apart I know that their time, their season in my life is over. They spent their time with me, helped me grow as a person, and gave me some wonderful memories to take with me for the rest of my life. But it's time to move on, to grow from what I have learned from them and use it.
So who is no longer in your life that you have memories of, that has made an impact on who you are today?

A smelly blessing

So last weekend our 95 Honda Accord died on us. We had it towed home that night and started talking about what we should do. We decided that it was time to get another car. I called my Birth Grandma who I knew had had a car for sale a few months ago to see if she still had the car. She did. She had offered to just give it to us but I did not feel right about that. I knew that they had put some money into the car to get it running good again. So they offered to trade my shotgun for the car. So that's what we did.
The only thing wrong with the car is it leaks water on the inside. The floor boards are flooded when it's raining or has been raining. So the car stinks, and stinks bad. Well after doing some looking around on the car, sucking up the water with a shop vac and then hosing it down I was able to narrow down the area of where the water was coming in at. So then I turned to the internet and found some more information on that car and that it's a common problem for the Chevy Corsica's. So Pat spent most of the day ripping up the carpet inside the car to get to the water leak. Then we sealed under the windshield where we think the leak is coming from.
Tomorrow will be the big test. We will drive the car in the rain (well hopefully it's raining outside but it's Oregon so probably at some point will rain). If not then we will just hose it down and see if we get any more water inside. At least the carpet is gone so we will see any water coming in a lot faster now.
The car still stinks a little but once the leak is 100% fixed then I will get in there and do a good deep scrub on it and make it smell oh so much better.
This car only has 103K miles on it, the Honda had 213K miles. Pat drives about 110 miles a day round trip for work. Is this car perfect, no. Would I like a nicer, better looking car that smelled good. Sure. But this car is a blessing to us. This car will help us in so many ways in the long run. We are planning on getting a mini van after the first of the year with our tax return with the new baby on the way. This car is helping to pay for that van. We are able to see the Honda and use the money from that to help pay for the van.

Blessings

So this weekend on our way home from Tigard our Honda died on us on the Interstate. So we called AAA and waited for our tow truck. Got the Honda home and started thinking about what we will need to do since this is Pats car that he drives to work every day. We can't afford for him to drive the truck to work more then just every once in a while.
So I called my Birth Grandma who I knew had a car for sale a little while back, I did not know if she had sold it yet or not. She still had the car and was willing to just give it to us. I was not comfortable with that since I knew they had put money into the car. So they offered to trade my shotgun for the car. So we brought the car home and found out is had a dead battery, no big deal, so went down to the auto parts store and got a new battery for it. We also talked with someone who works there and is a Honda guy and asked about our Honda. He was pretty sure it's a relay for the fuel system so we bought that part and will put it on today or tomorrow.
We are going to sell the Honda once we get it up and running again. We will use that money to put towards our new van that we will be getting after the first of the year with our tax return. I can't wait to get our new van and have all that room for all three kids and the dog with room to pack our stuff when we got on small trips.
Right now we normally travel in the Honda and with two car seats, me, Pat, and the dog. Then add all our stuff on top of all that, there is not much room left for leg room or anything else. So the van will be nice to stretch out a little.
The new to us car is such a blessing to us. We know that God is providing for us in every way possible. We may not always see it but he really is. I do admit I have moments of doubt. I try not to but I'm only human. I try and pray and ask for help when I have doubt. I try and talk with Pat to help me have better faith when I have doubt.
I know that God will provide in all we do and always be there for us no matter what we are going through. I also know that God will never give us more then we can handle.