We are officially "Laid Off"!

Last Friday my husband was "let go". This is the same, I guess as being "laid off" but not quite like"being fired".
My husband is a really good guy, knowledgeable, optimistic, a good co-worker, is not afraid of staying late or working hard and so, by all accounts, people were sorry to see him go. The company is trying to stay afloat and who knows-if they can make it through these hard times, just maybe they'll be in a position to rehire. We can hope, but we are not going to hold our breathes.
Working for a small start-up company means working for your hope in the future, not getting the big bucks, but believing enough in the value of the product that you can work hard for the payoff down the road. We have been living pretty much from paycheck to paycheck for the past three or four years years as it is, and we have not been able to "stock pile" a mass of savings or food storage. About 6 months ago, after all my children were in school, I took a part time job after being a stay at home mom for the past 17 years because I thought it would be "fun" to have a little extra money and be able finally to put some away in savings. Almost the next month my husband received his first pay cut.
There were several large layoffs, followed by another pay cut and then yet another layoff which included us.
On a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the highest we are at about a 2 on the "Freaked Out" scale.
Perhaps we are in shock, but the full import of this just hasn't hit us yet. I would say that we have felt oddly comforted. And also, it's only been 4 days since the big "lay off".
Maybe we're relieved to finally be where we have feared we would be for so long that it's just finally good to know where we stand. My husband and I are both 46 and 45 and maybe this serves as our mid-life crises. We both agree that while loosing one's job and health insurance is more than a little annoying, it might be the spring-board to move us towards a new adventure.
We are both open to something completely new.
We do have five school-aged children who do continue to rely on us, and will for many more years, so how crazy can we be? We're looking into it.
That's the reason for beginning this blog. More later.