When I got married I also changed my job to be able to work with children again. I really love working with young kids so I apply and was accepted to work at a daycare. I worked with 16 three and four year olds and it was marvelous! We rented a house about 45 minutes from where I worked. It was so wonderful to be teaching, playing and planning again for children again that I didn’t mind the commute at all.
It wasn’t our home for very long due to the mould in the basement and other issues that had come up. So we moved into an apartment on my parents farm. It was nice living close to my parents but it wasn’t our own place. My husband’s parents had a run down place nearer to where I worked. It was so run down it was very affordable so we moved an old mobile home onto it and lived there. It took time to get all the amenities put in but we were eager to be in our own place. Our neighbors were kind enough to let us run an extension cord over from there place for a microwave and I did a lot of cooking in that for a time. We had no water, sewer, power or natural gas (heat) for many months.
During that time I was still working and had become pregnant. We hauled water jugs, used something like a compost toilet and had only a microwave for a few months, then we had a holding tank put in for our septic and that felt marvelous! It meant we could actually use the toilet and just pour water down to flush. In November we had natural gas and power put in, but still no running water. It didn’t matter though because we could still haul water but at least could cook, clean and stay warm now!
Matthew 6:31-34 ““Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”