We have plenty in our life that is obviously broken (broken walls, dysfunctional Laura, destructive relationships between various kids, etc.) but I am becoming aware of others truly broken things that are dragging us down and it’s time we got some help.
I’ve learned in the last couple of weeks that Savannah feels so marginalized by the other Miamaids that she has been skipping young women’s – going home after Sunday School and sometimes coming back at the end of church to pick up Emma from class. She has been silently waiting for some of the Beehives to move up to the Miamaid class so that she will have some friends. If she were newly in Miamaids that would be unfortunate but understandable. It is heartbreaking to consider that she is closer to Laurels than Beehives (and when she gets there it will just be the same problem again).
It has been months that I have known that I need a change professionally but today I got the official word that my pay won’t be actively cut so I have no chance at a severance package. Unfortunately I also saw that my pay scale got trimmed so future raises will be smaller. In other words, they aren’t kicking me out the door but they’re not giving me any reason to try sticking around.
It’s time for our family to stop living on whatever crumbs or crusts fall from other people’s tables.
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