Chirstmas rrr Nothing....

As many of you no doubt know I(Marshall) work at Macy's a Department store celebrating it's 150 birthday. But one thing struck me as a bit odd. If Macy's has been around for 150 years, a clear sign of having had some measurable amount of success. Why are they playing Politically Correct Christmas songs, did I miss something is or is not Christmas about the birth of Jesus Christ. It seems logical to me that is you acknowledge the existence of Christmas, shouldn't you also acknowledge the existence of Christ; or is that asking to much. Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge the existence of Jesus Christ. Seriously, why are you celebrating Christmas, if you don't celebrate Christ? Is there some magic "winter holiday" where we all exchange gifts? Why is there not a summer holiday where we can exchange gift, what about fall or spring? What makes winter different if there is no Christmas?

I just don't get it? Play a Christmas carol, instead of "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus" . Either Christ existed and that should be celebrated or we celebrate nothing....

How is God working in you?

For those of you who are interested, I haven't heard anything about the job at BGSU that I interviewed for last month. Don't know if that's a good or bad thing. Just trying to wait patiently until I hear.

On a different note, a couple/few weeks ago my supervisor came in my office and said that she had bad news. I thought, "I really hope I'm not losing my job." Thankfully, she didn't say that. She did, however, say that HR has cut off paying intermittent employees holiday pay. It was kind of a fluke that I was getting it anyway. In general intermittent's don't get this benefit, but ODNR is one of the only Department's that were authorized to pay it. Well, not anymore. The State is cutting the budget in just about every area as well as laying people off, so this did not come as a suprise to me. When I didn't get mad or upset about this news, she was very suprised and said, "Wow! You took that really well. If it were me I'd be really mad." Now, I'm not writing this to elevate myself in any way. I'm saying it because it shows how the power of God works in your life. I knew that whatever news came out of her mouth couldn't be that bad. Yeah, I'm a little disappointed and it inconveniences me because I have to come in on a different day to make up those hours, but overall it's not that big of a deal. In response to her shock I simply said "Well, I can't do anything about it so why get upset about it?" If God was not a part of my life I'm sure my response would have been the same as her's, but because of Him I can honestly say that I'm fine with it and He can have the glory because of it.

My Flickr

just wanted to let everyone know about my Flickr, I'll try to update it regularly. I'm still in the process of getting my sets set up and uploading pics in general.

So bear with me.

Marshall's Flickr

I long for a simplier time....1953

For a long time now, I have been fascinated with the idea of living my life in one solitary year, why, you ask? Because I think it would be neat, 1953 is a year which has always held much interest for me. I don't know why exactly, but I have long fantasized about living in 1953, no real special reason; I just want to live in 1953. I wasn't alive in 1953, I wasn't born till 25 years later, but I just think it would be amazing, if I could leave today, 2008 and go back to 1953. Taking nothing with me, leaving everything here, just so that I could start anew.

Now I know that the actual 1953 is probably much different then what I'm picturing in my head as I compose this but, seriously who wants to pay 4 dollars a gallon for gas, not me. There are enough things about today that drive me nutty, and believe me if you gave me the choice to stay here or go back to oh say 1953, I think I'd choose 1953.

Yes, I not that 1953 had it's problems like the fact that Joesph Stalin was still alive and that there was still segregation in the south. But there were also no computers, no internet, no cell phones, and no video games. Anyone who knows my well knows that I love my computer, internet and video games, but I think it would be well worth for me to give them up, if I could escape the today's new media, the rapists and the just plan old bad people there are in this world.

I know 1953 was not great or anything like that, but it's gotta be better that most of the stuff we put up with in today's world.

Back to work.....I guess....maybe.....

Well, I went to the doctor to see about my ankle and he said that I was progressing as excepted and that it was basically up to me when I wanted to go back to work. So we decided on Monday the 21th, just to give me a little piece of mind and help me ankle heal a bit more. So as of Monday I will be back at work, I guess.

Thanks for all those who've prayed for me and I pray you will continue to pray for me.

And if you'd like to see my personal blog it here

Something Has to Change

So we have a HUGE, life changing decision that we need to make. We haven't had to face this kind of decision before, and in the grand scheme of life it's probably not so huge. But in our life thus far, it's Big!

A couple of weeks ago we found out that I have at least one symptom of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). Basically what it means is that we're going to have a hard time getting pregnant on our own, and will probably have to have fertility treatments. At this point in our life we aren't in the position to afford to have a baby. I know, I know, we'll never be able to afford to have a child. But we really can't afford it right now. We're barely making it as it is with just the two of us.

Now that I've grieved over the fact that babies aren't going to happen for us right now, I'm realizing that life is pretty blah. If we don't put forth the effort to make a change in our life now, this will be our life forever. Struggling every week to pay our bills, and not able to afford the things that are important to us.

God opened my eyes last week that the change that needs to be made will more then likely include us moving away from Ohio and the safety net that surrounds us. Of course this is thrilling to Marshall as our main option is to move to Florida. We already had plans to travel to Florida next month, so while we're there we're going to go to Gainesville and check into what it would take to transfer to the University of Florida.

Surprisingly, I'm actually excited about the possibility of moving. I don't know what God has in store for us, but I'm getting excited that there are options out there for us to live a better life. Please be praying for us as we seek His will for our life, and what He wants us to do next!

Welcome to the Cade Family's blog.

This will be the place where My family and I post thoughts on general stuff as well as stuff going on in our life.