Change in plans

Unfortunately, after a meeting with my boss at the end of last week, I discovered that I'm not going to be able to cut my hours at the VA like I originally thought.  If I drop to anything less than 80 hours/2 weeks I will have to pay back the $5,000 sign-on bonus that I got when I started working there a year ago.  The only way around it will be to finish out the next year (until Sept. 14, 2010) or buy myself out of it.  However, the job at the pain clinic is too good to pass up and there is definitely the potential for me to get a full-time position.  Eventually.  Just not right now.  So, for now my only option is to continue working nights at the VA (because a day shift position won't become available for years and this is not an exaggeration) and stay prn at the pain clinic.  The good news is I'm making really good money at the pain clinic, it's relatively easy work, and I'm getting experience in a new area of nursing.  The bad news is, I don't get to see my kids nearly as often as I want to, Greg is still in Kansas City more often than not (and helping his dad quite a bit on the weekends), and I'm flipping between day shifts and night shifts.  So, the situation is not as wonderful as it could be but it's definitely not the end of the world.  So for now, we will just keep on doing what we have been doing and keep praying that God's reason for these obstacles will be revealed sooner rather than later.