I kinda feel my life is on hold. I was given walking papers on my job of nearly 10 years in February and I used the time off unwisely. I made detailed lists of things to do around the house and to this day may a third of those have been completed. I waited a few months before taking action toward reemployment as February, March, April and May had visitors dropping by. Most importantly some were family we hadn't seen in many years. And the ones who weren't family members were very close friends that felt to us like family. First there was a newly wed couple from our home town in New Hampshire. He was a new acquaintance for us while she was a close friend whom we discipled in her spiritual walk since 1979. Her husband passed a few years ago and now she remarried. The next was my wife's older sister and her husband. We usually see them every time they come to Florida from New Hampshire as their daughter lives near Tampa. We are all getting older so it's good to reconnect with them. When Kat and I were married in 1976, our next visiting friends were at the wedding! In fact he was an usher within the wedding party. They both hail from Wisconsin but met in New Hampshire serving in a ministry there. We all actually worked summers together at their youth camps. They find their way to the Florida east coast every other year and this was our third reunion together. We try to find a new eatery Everytime they come and this visit was no exception as the restaurant was right on the Eau Gallie River. Fun day. Shortly after that Easter was upon us and Kathy's older brother and his wife had been vacationing the whole month of March on an island in the southern part of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. They arrived here on the Saturday before Easter Sunday as they were trekking their way back to the Granite State (New Hampshire). We met them for the Saturday evening Easter Service at our church and my sister was with us. We visited for a while after church back at the house and enjoyed a meal together. They stayed at a hotel nearby, my sister here with us and we got together back at our home for Easter dinner. A wonderful ham with the fixings...so very good. Later in the afternoon they said their farewells and aimed for St. Augustine where a cousin lived to visit there before the final two days they had to get back home. But with all those great reunions the best was yet to come. By now it's mid April and our son's were flying here from Denver. The next day our grandson was flying in from St. Louis. Once again the boys aunt (my sister) came so it was a huge Tremblay Reunion. We hadn't seen our younger son or grandson since 2018. But our older son was here in 2021 and 2022. Except for our 23 year old grandson who had to get back to work after a few days here, our boys were here for a week. My sister left a few days before them for an appointment she had in Orlando.
So I figured I certainly couldn't be working a job with all this activity happening here. But when all were gone from us, reality set in ... I had to get a job. My savings were getting incredibly low. In fact, I calculated that if I wasn't working by the beginning of June we would be penniless. Of the many applications I sent out, one job interview was offered, but it became the second of four job rejections I experienced. I have never in all my life had trouble getting a job but here I am ... unemployed still in the middle of June. There is more to this story. I am still on hold as is life for us. My savings are depleted and when I dropped down to about $120.00 in my accounts something happened. Hold on ... that story is about to be told very soon. See you then.
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