A few weeks ago, Blaine interviewed at a university a couple hours away from here. He was offered, and accepted, a position as a university photographer. He starts tomorrow.
Fun inside the conservation center after the eclipse.
We’re working through a list of repairs on the house to prepare it to sell. Blaine’s been off from work this week and has accomplished much. We still have a ways to go.
Conservation center fun in Winona, Missouri
We took the camper to a long term campground near his new job and he’ll be staying in it weekdays and be home on weekends until we’re able to sell our acreage and buy something there. I’ll finish out the school year driving the bus here.
Total Eclipse
We’ll still be in Missouri, but it’ll mean a lot of changes. We will be in a new community and I’ll have to find a new job. I applied to a work from home position in bookkeeping/sales tax/payroll and am hoping that works out, though it sounds like it might take a bit to begin even if they do hire me. I think I should be able to find a bus driving job if it doesn’t. Sterling is very sad to leave his job working in small engine repair. I hope he decides to start a business of his own. The other kids are pretty excited.
Leaving Eden and Kevin will be hard. Cordell is due in a month and we’ll still be here for that but will eventually be two or so hours from them. I prayed so much that, when we chose to move the first time in spring 2021, that we’d do it before we left children there. We did – but then we left Liberty in South Dakota and now we’ll be a ways from Eden too. Chunks of my heart are scattered and that’s so hard.
Waiting for the eclipse. We had so much fun!
Much work is ahead. Moving is a lot of work, and moving ten people is daunting. We have some things still packed up but we have furniture to move we didn’t have before. I purged a lot before we moved to South Dakota and bought new (to us) things when we moved here. Now we get to move more things. The kids have two sets of triple bunks, I found a matching leather living room set, we found a nice bedroom set for ourselves… bleh. More stuff. I got a storage unit this week and have started packing up as much as we can live without and selling a few things as well. Books were the first thing to be packed. Ellie is having withdrawals. The library will save her.
Prayers as I “single parent” during the week are coveted. I’m dreading that very much. If this didn’t drag on for very long, I’d be thrilled. I hate living in “limbo”.
My goodness this is a surprise. I know you all had a hard time finding the place you live now. Pray you will find something very soon. Trust you all will be very happy with this new move. I know Blane is excited about his new job.