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April 22, 2004 10:24 PM

[Looking.Ahead]

Well, the ups and downs are still sticking around. Seems like things won't begin to level off a little (although I'm fully aware that life never will even out) until we get to the new city and the new job. Had the best couple of days that I have had in over a year at the beginning of the week. Then I had to tell two friends of ours on Wednesday that we were leaving.

I'm dreading telling the church. That will be a difficult day. We're planning on letting everyone know that we're leaving on Sunday, May 2nd. Right now we're just trying to figure out the 'how' of doing so. When do we let the youth know? How do we let the youth workers know ahead of the youth? (Or do we even let them know until it's revealed to everyone else?)

All of this coming at the same time that I'm realizing how much more difficult the move is going to be on my wife. I'm the one who gets to go off to the office to a new job & new adventure. She is the one who gets to stay at the house & get things in order & raise our children during the days without the support base that we've developed here. We have friends & family in the city where we'll be moving, but I'm not sure how much of a support they can be during the work day. She's excited, though, almost as much as I am - and she's ready for the adventure. This will be a good growing time for our marriage, our family life, our spiritual lives & my professional life - all wrapped into one!

We're headed to the city tomorrow for the day (it's a three hour drive from here) to look for a rental home. We're hoping to get into something that we can lease for as little time as possible. Most rental house leases last 6 months at the earliest, so that may be what we have to settle for. We're only wanting to be in a rental for a few months so that we can get settled in, get a better grasp on our where our finances are going to be at, & decide where and in what kind of house we'd like to buy & move into. It will be a long day, but a good one - especially as we have friends here watching the kids for us so it will just be my wife & I. I'm looking forward to that.

Posted by Kristo on April 22, 2004 at 10:24 PM | Permalink