Greetings LeeAnne,
Not getting the job you desired is disappointing and I also encourage you to explore the reason that you weren't hired. In the meantime, hang in there and something even better will be offered to you.
As a side note concerning your teenagers, I would like to offer a little story that may help you through these difficult times. I hope it doesn't put you over the edge into a worse mood, I only mean to give you some sense that there IS light at the end of the tunnel.
I was a single, divorced parent of 4 children born from March 1962 to July 1966. I was from a broken family myself with a undemonstrative mother so my parenting skills left alot to be desired. During their teen years, I was working at a minimun wage job during the day and attending college at night to improve myself to get off welfare. I finally graduated from nursing school in 1980, but during those years I had many visits to their schools, some visits from the police and many fights with the children over discipline, school grades, talking back to me, generally very BAD behavior.
Well, my son, the oldest, did graguate High school and joined the Navy in 1980. I was so pleased that he was going to make something of his life, without a detour to jail although he did have a Juvenile Hall stay briefly. And we had a good relationship. In 1981 I got a telegram from the Navy that he had Leukemia and were shipping him home from the Phillipines. Long story short, unfortunately the chemo didn't work and he died a year later a week before my oldest daughter's wedding.
I more or less recovered when in 1983 while at work I received a phone call from my ex-husband, that my middle daughter, 17 years. had been hit by an 18 wheel truck as she was turning. She was in a coma for three months before she also passed away. We also had developed a good relationship before the accident. She had graduated from cosmetology school and had just started her first job about a week before.
So even though the teen years are the most difficult, be glad that you have your husband to support you through the difficult times and never lose sight of the light at the end of the tunnel.
Things will get better.
My thoughts will be with you.
I want to end on a happy note, so now for the rest of the story.
I married again, I made more money as a nurse than I ever dreamed I would(after being on welfare) which has paid for over 50 cruises, 6 on RSSC, my two daughters are hapily marrried and I now have 6 grandchildren who are my loves. And I'm looking forward to retiring later this year if finances permit. I'm burned out.
Best wishes to you and your family. Savor every moment with them, we never know what life holds.
Happy cruising,
Joanne, the chocoholic