I noticed you mentioned that you need the money especially near Christmas. My advice to you is to drop the traditional Christmas commercial tradition of buying gifts on Christ's b-day for each other and going in a debt hole. GOD is not pleased when people do this to themselves and their families. Its the devil's moronic trick to steer people's minds away from Christ and bring them into financial debt.
As for your wife's job, in GOD's hands brother. When one door closes, another opens. Keep the faith.