Catching up.

Sorry that it has been so quiet on the home front. We’ve been really busy and suffering through a week of post-vacation work made it even more difficult to want to blog a bit. We just got back from another weekend away and I was thrilled to sleep in my own bed last night…nothing like your own bed, house, pets, pillow…the list could go on and on.

We’ve entered into our “busy season” at work though that is sort of a farce to say. We really are busy in seasonal spurts throughout the year – this is just our fall one. Recruitments galore, night meetings and trainings are slowly filling all of my weeknights on my fall calendar. I’ve signed myself up to work at camp a few weekends – including this weekend – so week days aren’t the only busy times.

Chad is thinking of making a major career change – and has taken and passed a class to that end – so please pray that we will continue to seek God’s will for our family, especially where employment is concerned. I LOVE my job and I want the same for Chad...

not sweet. and sweet.

A few things I would like to report:
1. I have no beautiful flowers left. Not of their own fault, I assure you...my tulips were just starting to open up and become even more beautiful.
And then Wooby ate them.
Seriously.
She tears each one to shreds (with her teeth??) and then I find no petals left over so she must eat them.
I sure hope they aren't harmful to cats though at this point, I kinda feel like she would get what was coming to her!
So, thank you Chad for my wonderful valentine's beauty - and I am sorry my cat is a nutjob.

2. I have a job interview next week. I probably should not say this on my blog because I truly have no idea if people from work read it at all or on a regular basis so if you work with me at HL, please. kindly keep your mouth shut (this may turn out to be nothing!!). I actually applied for this job back in the fall sometime just because I could, the job was open, and it was an organization I think I would really like to work with/for. I never heard anything. Not an email, not a phone call, nothing. I followed up like you are supposed to do, left a few messages, but didn't hear anything. Then yesterday, I got a voicemail while I was at work that said the job is open here in Chattanooga (I got the impression I was applying for the same job in North GA originally...) and that the person who hires was not given all the resumes/applications the first time around. She wanted to know if I was still interested and if I could meet with her next week (she works out of Knoxville). I told her I was so I have an interview next Wednesday morning...please say a prayer for us/me about this. It is with a non-profit so I don't expect a big pay increase but anything more than what I am making would help us out with a house payment. I also would like to feel like I have fulfilled my purpose at HL and that it is truly God's plan for me to move on to something else...so in earnest, I really just want to have peace about making the decision and making the move if I get an offer.
Now I have a week to get nervous and try to decide what I am going to wear...it's been a while since I needed to pick out interview clothes!

I close at the HL tonight so I am going to spend the rest of my morning cleaning up in our bedroom, putting away clothes, and picking up in the closet. I am going to spend some time just sitting in the closet, enjoying the fact that I can even walk in the door because I am sure we are about to downsize! I've been spoiled rotten by a closet!!