Monday, August 3, 2015

Full Speed Ahead

We have found that when something happens in life, 100 other things seem to happen at the exact same time. At the beginning of the summer, we were excited for a relaxing summer. I was beginning my career as a stay at home mom, Jarom had just graduated from ASU (aka: no more homework!), and we had a couple of fun trips planned. Well, that all happened. Plus a few other things. With Jarom having graduated from ASU, he started looking into possible career options. He had a good job where he was, so we weren't feeling rushed into finding a new job. But we had just spent a good chunk of money on this fancy piece of paper saying that he had a college degree and he was a little anxious to use that degree. After a visit to the temple to help us figure out what to do, Jarom sent an email to a guy that he had interviewed with a year ago at a company that does exactly what he wants to do. The next day, Jarom received a response that they did not have any openings here in Phoenix, but there was an opening down in Tucson and he could send Jarom's information to the people down there. Jarom said that would be great and the next day Jarom received a phone call that basically said if he wanted the job, it was his! We were excited, but our summer just got a whole lot crazier!

Before Jarom even interviewed for the job, we found a realtor to sell our house for us and we got lined up with a realtor down in Tucson. We put our house on the market almost immediately after Jarom was offered the job and it sold within 12 hours! Thankfully, the people buying our house were doing some sort of crazy loan that needed a minimum of 45 days to close. That gave us a little extra time to find a house down in Tucson and get that process started down there. While all of this was going on though, we managed to go to New Orleans, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and California. And we did lots of weekend and day trips down to Tucson. It has been a little nuts!

There have been several big blessings in all of this though to help us out. First of all, Jarom started the new job at the beginning of July. But he works from home about 3-4 days out of the week! So he has only had to go to Tucson a couple of different times. The other blessing is the people that we already know down in Tucson. We have several family members and friends down there and Jarom has been able to bum a bed or couch of each of them only about one time. These friends and family members even have connections to our new ward and have let them know that we are coming.

I have a lot of mixed emotions about moving. I think it will be really good for our little family to be a little more independent and on our own. We have spent some time down in Tucson this summer and I am genuinely excited to live down there. I am extremely sad though to be leaving our family. We are so lucky to have so much family living so close to us here in Mesa. It will be hard to not see them as often. And I am sad that Molly won't get to see her grandparents and aunts and uncles as often as I did when I was growing up. The good thing is that we are less than 2 hours away. And I know that we will come up to the valley quite a bit (possibly even once a month to go to the temple). Right now though I am just so over the whole moving process and just want to be in our new house. I'm tired of packing. I don't even want to think about cleaning. And the worst part is that we don't even have an official move date because our buyer is taking forever! Hopefully in the next week we will be down in the new house. Until then, full speed ahead.

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