What we told the kids

We told the kids on sunday about the big "lay off".
After a nice day together, we sat down for dinner and afterwards we felt it was the right time to have a family meeting to talk about this.
We told them about the loss of the job, but assured them that we felt we would be oaky.
That we had money enough to last us a little while if we were very careful. (about 2 or 3 months or 2 or 3 minutes -whichever comes first)
We told them that we had felt comforted as well as confident that things would all work out okay for our family, that we would rely on Heavenly Father to guide and direct us.
We told the kids they didn't need to worry, but that they should continue to join with us for our family prayers and scripture study and that it would help if they would try to work extra hard at getting along peacefully with each other, helping each other and do their chores and homework, so that Mom and Dad could concentrate on what we needed to do. We also reminded them that finding a new job/jobs and figuring out how to take care of the family was our focus and that they just needed to focus on their "jobs".
Then one of the kids suggested that we make a "plan" for some things we could do to help.
We made a list on the giant white board in the kitchen that was very good -full of various ideas presented by all the children.

The List
#1.Trust in the Lord
#2.Keep the commandments
#3.Be happy
#4.Pray and read scriptures together
#5.Fast
#6.Be positive-even in the toughest of times
#7.Have a big garage sale and get rid of some stuff

We like this list. It gave everyone a chance to give suggestions, but reaffimred to all our minds that we will continue to acknowledge our need for the Lord's help and guidance in this and all things. We will Trust in the Lord.