Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone! Joe, Whitney, and I traveled once again to his Mom's house for some family festivities. We started New Years Eve by going out with Joe's long time friend, Jason and his wife Jen. We went out to a restaurant and had great child free meal, with some nice adult beverages and conversation! :)
Then we headed back to Jason's for awhile before we headed to a local bar for the New Year's countdown and champagne toast. It was nice to be able to spend some time alone with my husband for a change...those days are few and far between! It was SUPER cold last night and today, not getting out of the 20s! We saw some snow on New Year's Eve, but only a dusting.

Joe starts his job tomorrow!!! WHOO HOO!!! We are excited, it will be a fun way to start the new year! Whitney starts daycare Monday, which will be good for her. She has become very bossy and temperamental lately. I think it will help to settle her a little. We had a nice blessing come yesterday to round out 2008. Joe had a flexible spending account for daycare, but we thought they had stopped taking deductions out. Just out of curiosity and since you have to use the account by the end of the year, we called to find out if there was any money left...we had $968.00!!! That will cover over a month of daycare PLUS more! What a blessing indeed! We headed to the daycare to charge that on the account before we lost the benefits. SO, thanks to that extra money, I won't have to stress too much about money for January. That extra will go into savings for the next month...

We have had some run ins with the PA Department of Transportion lately. Apparently, it is the law that new residents have to have their cars registered in PA within 20 days...well that has passed for us. On top of that, you have to get the original title for the car, an etching of the VIN #, a PA ID, etc....If you have a lien on the car (financed) then you have to ask the bank to provide the title to the tag agency temporarily...fine for my bank, but Joe's is NC based and is having a problem with that request. If they won't provide it, he may have to get his car refinanced up here to pay off the balance and get the title...very strange rules....ALSO, We have to get our PA driver's license before we can even get the tags changed, that means to proofs of ID (birth certificate and SS#) and 2 proof of residency (bills with our name and address). Well, we don't have the bills yet, because it has been less than a month and I have to get my birth certificate!!!!! So many hoops to jump through, but I am sure we will get it all worked out soon enough...hopefully before some cop stops us!

We are taking things one day at a time and hoping for the best as always! I know that God is working through us and is providing for us in these uncertain times. I pray that HE will bring some activity to the selling of our house....keep that in your prayers.

Well, we hope you all have a HAPPY NEW YEAR and take care!