Decisions, Decisions

Daddy & Karsyn

This picture and this post don't go hand in hand, but it was just too cute not to share. =)  Lately, we've been in the season of having to make a lot of decisions.  Ever been there?  We've spent a lot of time in thought and prayer and I just thought I'd share some of what's been going on with you. 

Jason and I had been talking a lot about putting our house up for sale next year.  Jason is a country boy at heart and would love to have a little piece of land.  I want more space in the form of another bedroom and more storage.  What we've decided...actually what our calculator decided for us, is that we won't be putting our house up for sale for a few years.  And just in case you are wondering, we are going to get bunk beds for the girls, put the queen size bed in Evan's room, and rework the kids' closet to make the most of the space we have.  We're looking to do all those changes after Christmas.

Another big decision we had to make lately, is about Jason's job.  He was asked to go to a store that isn't performing well.  The perks to this would be that it would lay a good foundation down for a promotion.  The downside would be that he would only get a portion of the bonus he has worked so hard for.  We really prayed a lot about this and we decided that he's going to stay put right where he's at. 

Lots of decisions have been made from insurance open enrollment (ouch!) to what we want to do on vacation next year.  But, I want to share with you the most important decision that I've ever made and that was 12 years ago on the 22nd of October.  It was the day that I decided to accept Jesus Christ as my Savior. Jason and I were dating.  He and his brother picked me up for church that morning and it was raining really hard.  I knew I needed Jesus and I knew that I needed to be saved, but I was letting my pride stand in the way and putting it off.  We were driving to church in Jason's little truck and the windshield wipers stopped working.  We pulled through a drive through bank, so that Jason could try to fix them.  I prayed and promised God that if he got us to church safely, I'd get saved at church.  The wipers started working again and we made it to church.  It took the last verse of Just as I Am to make my way up to the alters.  My eyes were already filled with tears.  The pastor's wife led me to the Lord.  After church, Jason's grandpa told me that I had made the most important decision of my life...even more important than who I was going to marry.  (I think he knew then that I would be Jason's wife.)  I didn't understand it then, but I do now.  That was the most important decision that I ever made.  If you would like to make the same decision, you click here to find out how.  One more thing to share is that in the weeks following the day I got saved, Jason received a notice in the mail that there was a recall on a part of the windshield wipers for his model of truck.  Who would of thought that a bad wiper part would save my life?