The Time Has Come...

This is a pointless post for most of you, but it is something that brings me great pleasure. The time has finally come for us to begin our cruise vacation. I just got done with my last 11 hour work day. Monday I worked 10 hours, Tuesday I worked 11 hrs and 45 min, and today I worked 11 hrs and 15 minutes. I will only have to work 4 hours tomorrow and I plan on working 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. and then have the rest of the day free. I am keeping Maddy home from daycare tomorrow. She was in a very fowl mood today. She woke up pretty early so I am hoping that is all that is wrong. Everything I asked her to do today was a big NOOOO topped off with a huge fit. I am hoping tomorrow is a much better day for her especially with us traveling in the airport. Tonight...besides finish getting me and Maddy packed...I have to write one 150 word response plus 2 50 word responses, take a quiz, compare and discuss something for my education class, turn in my selections for my final project, write a 250 word paper, and last but not least...write a 700 word paper. I think I will need more than just tonight to get this all done. Well, I have never been done with work this early so I better use this time wisely and get started on all this mess. I am very excited about this vacation if you haven't noticed and whereas I do not want the time on the cruise to fly by, I will at least be looking forward to sharing the pics with everybody when we get back. I hope you all have a good rest of the week and a great weekend. Oh yeah...Friday is Maddy's 2nd birthday. Our room is going to be decorated when we board the ship in birthday decorations and during dinner they will bring her out a chocolate cake and sing to her...that will make me cry I know!!!
Also, I found out some very exciting news yesterday that just made me feel so overwhelmed. Not long ago I had a heart to heart with God over how I was feeling in life and with my job and school. Soon after that I felt as if I would no longer be working at my current job for much longer which terrified me as you all know. Out of the blue it seems, a job opportunity may have just fallen into my lap and it will be doing exactly what I want to do. I don't know if this is a for sure thing because right now I am not quitting my current job, but I will be talking to the hiring person when I return from vacation to see if I can make it work out. The weird thing is I just felt like my life was fixing to change in a big way and that is pretty huge to switch jobs like this is. I also felt like when I returned from the cruise I would have a new job and that feeling may just be for real. I have been watching the movie Facing the Giants a bunch lately because it is such an excellent movie! I am going to steal some lines from it and say, "I want you to know I serve an awesome God!" What is impossible for God? NOTHING!!! Even if this particular job doesn't work out, I know God is guiding my every step, I just have to listen and obey Him. I also know that I do not have to be fearful. The bible says 365 times do not be afraid. All I can do is my best and leave the rest up to Him, but whether things are good or they are bad I still have to praise Him. I have been trying to work on that...have been since last year. When things get real hard and I feel like giving up I simply say, "I will still love you Lord" and it is amazing what that does.