Difficult Decision

As a parent, my heart is killing me tonight. I had to make the difficult decision to pull Drew out of preschool. I kept him home on Monday just to buy myself two extra days to pray about it. What it comes down to is that the money just isn't there.

When he learned on Monday that this was a possibility, he cried many tears. Then he went down to the playroom for about 30 minutes. He came back up with a box loaded with toys and said that they were for a garage sale so that we could have money for him to go to school. I had to turn away so he wouldn't see me cry.

He has been very focused the last two days on this garage sale he wants to have, and on praying about our situation at most meals and at bedtime. Telling him tomorrow is going to be very difficult. However, I am going to enlist him to pray with me that God will provide me with a job so that I can put him right back in school again. (Thankfully the preschool is open-ended on registration and, assuming other children don't take his spot, he can return at any time.)

Sometimes it's very hard to be a parent, especially when you want to provide the best for your children. But I do know that God can use this to teach him about God's faithfulness as we pray together.