New Adventure of Life

Okay, so this past weekend James' aunt went to town (Anchorage). We have been living with his aunt and uncle for almost 3 weeks now. Well anyways, while she was in town his uncle made a few dinners and then he was busy so I had offered to make a couple of meals. One night I made a chicken and rice casserole or in my mom's term "farting chicken". James is uncle and cousins loved it. Well we got to talking about what we should have on Sunday for lunch/dinner. So James went and stared at the freezer on Saturday to see what was there. We decided upon a moose roast. Yes I did say a moose roast. Let me just say that when I made my first pot roast shortly after James and I got married I had cheated a little. I had use a pot roast seasoning mix that you buy from the store. Well I knew that my mom would sometimes use the Lipton's onion soup mix in hers, but we didn't have any of that here. (James' aunt went to Anchorage for grocery's). I ended up making my own

So as sit here I'm thinking about my birthday. This year is going to be different. Not just because I'm in Alaska and not home with my family. Growing up I celebrated my birthday away from home. Some were at summer camp. I had my aunt there and my cousins since they either were working or attending that week. My sixteenth birthday I took my first plane ride ever and went down to Guyana, South America. All the other years I might have been home with family, but I honestly couldn't tell where I was for my birthday before my ninth birthday. This my birthday is going to be different because I am in Alaska with my husband starting our new life. He's the only family that I need. I do miss my family in Michigan and Georgia and my in-laws in Illinois. But when I married James he became the only family that I do need in my life. I don't need my family around me celebrating my birthday. I want it but I don't need it. This year I'll be celebrating my 23rd birthday with

Well, I've been going down the road of life trying to trust God in every situation. I'm praying and hoping that my husband can get a job soon, seeing since we are out of money and have bills still coming, mostly my student loans. I'm struggling with all of this just because James doesn't have a job yet. I'm sure I wouldn't be as stressed out if we had some money flow coming in.   During all of this I think back to when my dad had his open heart surgery 9 months ago. My mom was also trusting and believing that God would provide during that time. My parent's had bills coming in and had no money to pay them. My dad had his surgery on the monday before thanksgiving in 2010. My mom would come home during the week stay and there would be money in the mail for her and it was always enough to get her through.  I wish I could be like my mom and have the faith that she did. I've been very emotional during all of this. I haven't gotten a good night rest since

Well, since we got to be in Anchorage for a week we did get to be tourist. James and I walked downtown one of the days and got postcards for a few of our family members. We also got to go up on Flat Top, which is a mountain. We had a lot of fun. I got to see my first moose even though it was out in the distance.  If you look closely you can see a little dark spot and that would be the moose.   Now let's fast forward to Aniak. I am going on  my third day here so far. The first day we got here, I was miserable. I had a tooth pulled about two hours before we flew out here. But that night for dinner we James's aunt made  halibut chowder for dinner. It was interesting taste for me. I am not a fish fan and I know that I am going to have to learn to eat it. Then last night I got to try moose. It was pretty good. I couldn't really tell a difference between moose and cow. The only reason I knew that it was moose when I as eating it was because I saw a package on the counter that mor