One Day at a Time...

So, here's the full story. A few months ago, Shane and I were sitting around having one of those heart-to-heart conversations about life in general. We were talking about how much a cancer diagnosis changes every aspect of your life and how it has changed the way we look at everything. We've always felt like we had our priorities right--but this sort of thing shakes you up a bit. As we were talking, Shane popped open his computer and saw a job posting for a property supervisor position in the Dallas area. What kind of timing is that?!? We talked some more and decided that it wouldn't hurt for him to just try for it. He hadn't been too thrilled with the way things were going in his office, and he was as high as he could go (promotion wise) without making a move. So, he talked with his boss and applied for the job. LOTS of waiting followed this. We thought for sure, he wouldn't get the chance to interview at all. Then, finally he got a call. He went to TX a week ago Friday and went through a tough interview. They told him that they had 3 other great candidates for the job, so we still were hoping and praying that he'd get it, while trying not to get our hopes too high. Last Wednesday, he got the call and he GOT IT! I'm SO proud of him!!!

We're super excited about living near family again and being close enough for Logan to see his Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles much more often. But, we are sad about leaving AR and all we have here. We love our house and our yard and we have wonderful friends. Just wonderful!!! It's been a bit of an emotional week as we've been spreading the word about our move.

We are trying to sell the house ourselves first and are really hoping that this works out. We'd really like to retain as much of our equity as we can so that we can put it all in on our new house in TX. Luckily, we have a good friend who is a realtor/broker who is helping us with the contracts and giving us insider tips. Shane starts his new job Nov 2, so we'd really, really like to have an offer by then. In the meantime, we've rented a storage unit and done a ton of cleaning out so that all of the closets are almost empty and everything looks really roomy. We've been working our butts off!! We haven't really worked out details of our move yet, and are just planning to take things a day at a time. We'll keep you posted!

Posted in: on Monday, September 14, 2009 at at 9:22 PM