Oh Sigh

I'm writing this to ask for a some family prayers. Tim and I are having a rough go of it. We are praying and praying and doing everything we think the Lord wants us to do, yet we seem to be faced with more and more trials.

Tim was provisionally accepted to SJSU and we went in to Student Services almost weekly to double and triple checking that there was nothing else we needed to do, to see if everything was ok, especially since he was transferring from FIDM. We were reassured over and over that everything was fine and that he was more than qualified for acceptance. Just our luck, since FIDM was a "vocational" school SJSU will not accept most of his units. We demanded to speak to an admissions supervisor and finally we got one who was helpful. She said we needed to go to all the advisers of the different majors and get signatures on all 31 units and then hopefully she could get him in but we needed to get it done by the 22nd. We have been scrambling to get all the requirements, and people are just becoming less and less willing to help us. We have only been able to get some of the classes signed. We still have 16 units that professors do not want to sign because they do not want Tim to have too many electives. I understand that, but he cannot get in without them! This is Tim's third time in a row applying and getting accepted then denied. We know he is supposed to be applying to school, we keep praying and this is what we were told to do. We just don't know what to do anymore. Applying to school is putting a damper on job hunts too because he keeps getting into school (then later denied for something menial) which makes it hard to find a job since he doesn't know his availability.

Financially we are doing fine for now. We have been really blessed to be able to find dwelling in a cheap studio right across from Tim's sister so we have been able to help her out too. We are worried that the house may sell soon though because the owner keeps dropping her price (we live in a studio/garage of a house that is on the market).

I am working at Sunrise up here and their quality of care is awful. They don't care about the residents. They're rude, abrupt, pushy. I can't handle it. These people may have dementia but they still have so much to offer. To top it off, we just got a new resident yesterday who is SUPER confused. He knows this is not his home, but he doesn't understand what is going on. He gets combative sometimes which can be a risk to the residents, himself and us. My coordinator pulled the Lead and myself into the office to talk to us about this new resident. The Lead immediately says the resident has to go, that we can't deal with him here (just much more vehemently). I emphasize that we do not yet know him, he is confused, he is new, we do not know how to best help him yet, he doesn't know how to trust us yet, we cannot just kick him out because we don't want to try. The rest of the night the Lead gave me a hard time and it ended with her yelling at me in the parking lot because I'm "wrong."

Couple all this with the stress of school and just life...Well, long story short, Tim and I have had a long long long November and an incredibly long hard week. We could really use some extra prayers right now to help smooth life out a little bit. We just want some level of consistency for a while.