Life

One of the struggles I've been facing is the frustrating feeling that nothing is going smoothly. There seems to always be a hiccup in the plans that we lay out. Recently, when asked how my summer has been, I've given the response, "Overwhelming." Many of your know that in the span of two months I lost both my Papas. Here's what else we've been dealing with.

Curtis has been job hunting since January. We were only looking in College Station and in Wichita, KS. The market in Wichita isn't the best for Curtis' area of expertise. We continued to look here in College Station, with some positive leads that lead no where. In May(ish) we received a call from a bank in Michigan, wanting Curtis to apply for a position that they had available. We decided at the beginning of this process that we would walk through any door that God opened, so Curtis applied.

In mid June, Curtis had a great interview at A&M. The next week, he had an even better phone interview with the bank in Michigan. Both places seemed to be moving forward, and Curtis and I were excited and overwhelmed as we looked at the possibility of having to decide between the two and the very real possibility of moving to Michigan.

We waited, anticipating to hear from both places in the first week of July. We still haven't heard anything, leading us to believe that he hasn't gotten either job, putting us back at square one. There still hope that the A&M job is available, since the process of getting a state job can be a slow one, and several people have been on vacation. We're trying to prepare ourselves for not getting either job, which is frustrating and discouraging.

Add to this emotional roller coaster the house situation. The house was on the market from September-January. We took it off the market, for January and part of February. We put it back on the market in February, as the market started picking up. We have TONS of showings, but nothing panned out. A couple weeks ago, we lost our realtor. Curtis and I were under the naive impression that our house would just roll over to another realtor. Instead, we learned that we had to completely take the house off the market, and start back at square one with a new realtor.

Rather than going through that process again, we've decided to take the house off the market, and work on "moving back into our house". This will involve unpacking some boxes, moving everything out of our storage unit and back into the house, rehanging pictures and the bulletin board, getting the boys in bunk beds, rearranging rooms so that Elizabeth can have her own room, and finding a place for all our homeschool stuff.

The frustrating thing about all this is I feel like we've been through the wringer, yet we're right back where we started. I'm curious to see the lessons that God has been teaching us through all this, but not yet sure what they are. I know that all these events will produce fruit in my life. It's been my goal to be faithful to my Savior, in all these things, because of his faithfulness to me.