tidbits.

• Open enrollment for Chris' insurance ended today. I went through the options. None were financially do-able for us. I regret to tell you that I am going to go without health insurance for another year. The only way around that is if I get a full-time job with benefits before next November. That would mean not being a part-time stay-at-home mom. The whole situation really presents itself as lose/lose right now. So for now, Lord, shield me.
• My easy-going daughter seems to think that bedtime is a negotiable event.
• I began to research Cowboys/Packers tickets at Ticketmaster two nights ago. The cheapest ones were over $300. The upper end tickets were essentially a middle income family of 4's tax return per ticket. My source told me that our family group that was going together was intact and tickets were secured at under $100. My gut told me something different. I began to feel uneasy about the potential that my husband's last minute family may have waited til the last minute to buy tickets. They have. We will not be going to the Cowboys game as a result. I am absolutely so bummed out about it that there are no words. The only words I have are: If we cannot afford health insurance, we probably cannot afford NFL tickets. Well put.
• I wanted to stay at home so badly on Wednesday night from church that it practically took a tractor beam to get me in the pew. I am glad I went, but now I have to deal with something. God revealed to me what currently is my main stumbling block on Wednesday night. It is a difficult thing to verbalize but it is something that I have been warring with for a long time. John Reynolds spoke so succinctly. It was thought-provoking. It was what I needed to hear. So once again, I need you Lord. Please help me be the me You placed me here to be.
• Not prime reading tonight. Just real, grown-up stuff.