Good News, Great Joy
I had the most wonderful Christmas, and I hope you did, too. First, just before my husband's birthday he was offered a permanent , full time job as a technician with a successful and busy company. They asked him to begin immediately, and so within days he was on a plane to attend a two-week training in Los Angeles, California. Mind you: my husband has not had a permanent, full time job in more than 3 years. It's a huge victory, and I couldn't be happier for him. I hatched a plan to fly to LA for the weekend, since Dennis couldn't travel home in between his training weeks; it was a way to punctuate this awful year we've had, and celebrate his new job! I was very pleasantly surprised to find extremely inexpensive flights for me and my son at the last minute! And so, the weekend before last, Ben and I hopped on a plane and spent a wonderful, joyous couple of days basking in the sunshine of California's beaches, and my husband's happiness! It was t...