Back To Our Routine

I can't say that I am sad to say that! Those who know me well know that I prefer a routine lifestyle. Maybe not the entire day planned out, but I need to have certain things happen in a certain order each day. I am a natural morning person, but these last few months with Geno working nights and then him being gone have really taken their toll on my mornings! I wasn't such a happy morning person anymore.

I am sure that most of you have heard that Geno is back from the Secret Service AGAIN! For those of you hearing this for the first time, take your reaction and multiply that by 1,000 to get mine! After yelling at him a few times and being mad for a couple of days, I calmed down and started looking at the positive. After telling my friend, Missie, I realized that I really hadn't wanted to move anyway, right? I do have to give back his half of the closet and dresser, but I can live with that. I was going to post last week, but I wanted to actually see the shock on peoples' faces at church on Sunday before posting and taking the fun away ;o) These last 18 months have been such a roller coaster ride emotionally for me. I couldn't understand why anyone would want to take a job where he would be making less than half of his current income and have to move someplace where it was twice as expensive! I finally came to terms with all of it and decided to be a supportive wife. After all, Washington DC is a really cool place. Apparently, Geno came to my first conclusion on this second trip. He realized just how many hours those people have to work just to make it out there. It is one thing to work lots of hours and then get to enjoy the extra money, but you have to work the extra hours just to get by. We also thought there was great job security, but they are on probation for the first 4 years. Anything happens then and you are gone. Not to mention that they basically own you. His friend was called while on approved vacation and told to come back and report-at his own expense! It isn't as glamorous and you might think.

The good thing this time, though, is that he came back to a really good job that he started this morning. He is the new Project Manager at IBM. We are grateful that this opportunity came up for him. We hope that we have learned what we were supposed to and will use this awesome opportunity to get our food storage and emergency fund back where they were before-even better-and eliminate our debt. In the meantime, I will continue my studies to become a medical transcriptionist and hopefully soon start contributing to our income. I will continue to take hundreds of photos each month and work on scrapbooks for my family so that they won't forget about things when they are older. I will focus on doing little things for my family and others. We have to decide whether or not to go ahead and try to sell the house and get another one or just stay here and make improvements. We will keep just as busy as if we were actually moving-only now we will be doing it together.