Woah!

So Craig picked us up at the airport, and it was so cute when Peyton saw Craig. He immediately said "Daddy" and wanted to see him right away. Usually Peyton doesn't want Craig to hold him. He will usually give him a quick hug when he gets home from work, but doesn't want Craig to hold him at all. Well this time it was different. Peyton went straight to Craig and gave him literally a 5 minute hug. I should have taken a picture of it. It was really sweet. I think he really missed his daddy. We got home late Tuesday night and Wednesday I spent doing laundry and cleaning up Craig's bachelor pad. He is not the best house keeper, but to his benefit, he actually did the best job he has ever done on keeping the house clean, but it still took me all day to catch up.

I have a point to telling you all this. Well, on Thursday I was busy getting food ready for our primary pioneer activity. We were planning on having about 60 people show up and I needed to cook the hot dogs, cut up 3 watermelons, and get all the fixings! A lot of work. So I called Craig up asking if he was going to be able to help me at the activity any and I was complaining about all that I had to do, so he answered all my hot dog cooking questions,

then He said, "Are you done?"
Me: "Uh, yeah"
Craig: "I just found out that the bakery filed for bankruptcy and I am out of a job as of now."
Me: "What????"

Yeah, I know, second time in the last 2 1/2 years that Craig has lost his job. Oh, I should say that the bakery he currently was working for Gerards Bakery is based out of Colorado and also has a plant in California. We knew the bakery was falling under some hard times, so we have been trying to save money, like our tax refund and stimulus check, but it is still hard to comprehend a job loss. Plus having to sell a house that we only bought not even 2 years ago. Dang.

Well, the story doesn't end here. Craig calls me back after about an hour and says that the Mount Airy bakery (his bakery) has a buyer and that they are to continue to work the rest of their shifts, but the CO and CA bakeries had closed their doors, and that they truly were out of jobs. WOW! When we lived in Colorado and Craig got laid off from his bakery, he was going to work for the Colorado Gerards plant working night shift, just so that we didn't have to move. Then he went to the CA plant to consult for them for 2 months and we almost moved there, so that he could have a job. Then the bakery offered him the job in North Carolina. If we hadn't taken this job, then he would have been out of a job along with all those other people.

Well, Craig has new bosses and a new bakery name. Harvest Time Bakery. But so far everything else is the same. Other than the fact that he will be working long hours for the next month. We are very blessed to still have Craig's job and this really reinforces our choice to move so far away from family and friends, but I still think that we made the right choice and that we really have been guided by Heavenly Father to make the right choices for our family. I love my hubby and all of the sacrifices that he has made for me so that I can be a stay at home mom. I really do love it.

Whew! Now everyone is all caught up in our current drama.