We need your prayers

It was a very rough weekend, one of the hardest we have had here. After doing all we could to nurse the puppy back to health, she died in the night last night. It was heart-breaking, especially thinking of the kids and how they had been praying so faithfully that God would make the puppy get well. This time He chose not to, and that has been tough. In addition, our fridge, stove, water dispenser and computer died on us this weekend (oh - and my very favorite shirt got ruined - not a big deal, but on top of everything else it sure felt like one...). We think the fridge and stove have been fixed (time will tell), and the computer is in the shop - we don't have a prognosis for it yet. As you can imagine these things are all an incredible emotional strain not to mention the financial side of it. The puppy, while it was a cute little gift for the kids, was also a sizable financial investment to help with security once we get to Bicol, and now that $ was for naught. All these things have just added to our stress level (which was already quite high). "Our buckets were already full" as we say in my family, and each of these things just overflowed the bucket a little more. It has been a rough weekend and we appreciate your prayers for us. We know that none of these incidents really matter in the large scheme of things, but they don't feel very insignificant right now. We know that God cares even about these little things and has a plan already in place and at work to make all of this work together for good. It just doesn't feel very good at the moment. We are trusting and resting in Him, but we would appreciate you taking a moment to lift us up before our Father.