A Week in Rapid Review

It's been a rough week for the Herd.  Poor Papa Sheppard was sick for two weeks with a cold/flu bug that's been floating around his workplace.  And unfortunately for him, his workplace is not a very understanding, nurturing environment.  He missed two days of work last week because of his sickness, and his coworkers gave him guilt trips and snarky comments.

What made it even worse this week is that the illness became a pain in his jaw and teeth.  He went to the dentist three times since last Wednesday, only to discover he has a dead tooth requiring a root canal.  Unfortunately this is his second root canal this year, so our dental insurance has been maxed and the root canal will cost somewhere in the $700 mark, which we cannot afford right now.  So he's on antibiotics and pain medication to try to make it through to January.  It makes me sad, thinking that we have four credit cards maxed on things we shouldn't have spent money on, and now when we could've used it, we have no money for the more important things.  I'm going to bring this up to him this weekend and cement our need to get out of debt as quickly as possible.

So the week has been full of caring for Papa Sheppard and working around the needs of my family.  I did compile a menu plan, but have varied it slightly throughout the week, to make sure Papa Sheppard has food that is easier to chew.  I won't post it right now, as it's almost done anyway.

I also did not get a To Do Tuesday list done up.  I will prepare one for next week.

We continue to pray for Papa Sheppard to acquire a new job.  As I said, his current job is a very poorly run company and they are harsh with their employees.  Their boss just goes looking for people who are doing things wrong.  I surmise he is on a bit of a power trip.  Regardless, that is neither here nor there.  We believe the Lord is keeping us in this position for some reason, and so we patiently wait his judgement.  We love Him and we simply pray for his timing to come up to speed with ours.