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| So I have decided to change my blog from Xanga to Blogger, just because it seems like everyone else is with that one and so I thought I would change mine too:
http://aaserudfamily.blogspot.com
Just copy and paste that address into the web browser and ours should show up. | | |
|  Mika and Magnus doing homework together.
 Mika feel in love with our friends daughter Abbie - it was super cute.
 Last week was so nice and hot; probably the last of that weather.
Well it has been a few weeks now and we are settled in. I am back to work a few days a week, and it is actually going pretty well surprisingly.. I thought it would be a hard transition etc..etc.. but I went right back to work like I had never left and the atmosphere at the bank that I work at is a lot better then when I left. So that is good. Magnus is really hard at work at school and I never see him anymore. He is at school until 9:00 everyday this week so far and it is Thursday. I work Saturdays, so Sundays I get to see him between church activities, so on that note it is a little hard. I get pretty lonely in the evenings, but we have had some company the past couple weeks visiting us, so that helps. This just makes me realize that next year when Magnus has a job and doing his schooling for his CPA or CA that I might have a lot of lonely nights and weekends. When I think about this I get a bit depressed and then I start thinking that maybe living in Oregon might be a better situation, since there I will have family.
On that note, let me explain.... Magnus and I have some big decisions that we need to make in the next couple of months and if anyone knows us they know that we are the worst at making decisions - especially when it involves the rest of our lives. Magnus is done with his schooling this year and after that we need to figure out where we want to live, here in Canada, or at home in Oregon. Magnus did get a job offer in Oregon, in my home town actually, and it is a pretty good one. He will probably get a job offer here pretty easily and he has put out his resume'. We really love it here and we have friends and a good church. The biggest problem is the housing market here is way over priced and the starting wage for an accountant is $35000. a year for a few years, and that is pretty non-negotiable. It isn't bad, and it actually seems like a million dollars compared to what we make now, but it is nothing when you live in a very expensive place. In Oregon the starting wage is a little better, although not much, but the housing prices our a lot cheaper, and the cost of living a lot cheaper. My biggest thing right now is I am so concerned about the economy in the States and what that will look like for us living there and our children. I will admit I do like Canada better in many areas and the economy is doing very well where we live. But then I think God is in control and we are NOT! When things happen like the economy crises in the States it proves just that. When we think we are in control of our lives and feel safe and secure - God shakes us up or a nation up so that they realize that we are to lean on HIM, not on our stocks, the housing market, financial security. We put way too much into this and we need to come back to a life of dependancy on HIM. We put so much into comfort and security, what about putting everything on trust and dependency on the One who gave us life!
So then I think about this and think I don't care! Eventually we want to serve God in a missions organization somewhere as soon as Magus gets his CPA and a little experience. I could care less about comfort and Finances (although there are times I think money would be nice), I just want to do something that is in line with God's heart. (Isaiah 1:17): Seek justice, protect the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
These are my 101 emotions I go through everyday | | |
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