The McAtee Memoir

Friday, November 27, 2009

Black Friday

This year was mine and Jon's first year participating in Black Friday! I was supposed to work today, but I was able to be on call so that we could finish up our Christmas shopping. We only went to our local Wal-Mart since I was on call for work, but that one stop was enough for the both of us! Our Wal-Mart had tons of stuff. They still had delivery trucks coming in when we showed up at 6am. We were able to get some Christmas gifts for family, along with some stuff for us too. After all was said and done I believe we spent more time in the checkout line than we did shopping! haha. But it was worth it. We added up our savings for that one trip...we saved $123.08. Well worth it :) Afterwards we came home and curled up on the couch with the pup to catch up on some sleep :)

Friday, November 20, 2009

Update of Sorts

I can hardly believe that we're already in the middle of November! Next week is already Thanksgiving, and we have SO much to be thankful for. God has truly blessed us over the year in so many ways that we find ourselves amazed and in awe at the way God works. Recently with our news of receiving orders to Texas. We have both been praying for God to take us where He wants us to be; and while we were hoping for New Mexico, we know in our hearts that Texas is His will. We are at 131 days until we are officially out of Florida! Things are falling into place so perfectly with everything that we can hardly contain our excitement! School is a major thing that Jon and I are ready to put past us. Once we get to Texas i'll have about 3 years until i'll graduate with my Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, and because Jon will be in a clinical setting with his job, he will be able to go back to school as well and finish up his degree.

This semester i'm taking classes online from the local school here in our town. We were incredibly bummed out to find that I wasn't awarded any financial aid this year, so every class I was going to take would have to be paid for out of my pocket. [very expensive!] But we decided that it's what we have to do right now and that it'll all work out and we'll pay it. When I went to sign up for my classes today there was a flyer on a desk about military spouse scholarship for those in certain fields. When I asked about it the lady knew nothing so I let it go. As I got home to pay my tuition I decided to google the scholarship to see if I could find any information on it. Once I found the page I started fililng out the application to see if I was even eligible, 10 minutes later I had an email saying that I was and that I could apply. Once I applied I figured it would be awhile before I heard anything but a few minutes later I had a voucher in my name for the amount I needed ready to be sent to the school. I went down to the school to make sure it was the real thing and I was handed a receipt that said PAID IN FULL!!!!!! God is so good to those that remain true to Him and follow His ways!

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!!!