Homeward Bound . . . kind of

After being married to the military for the last eight years, I'd have to say that some of the biggest stress factors are the unknowns. Knowing you'll have to move, but not knowing where to or if there will be housing available and what the cost of living is (realistically). Knowing he's deploying but not knowing where to or for how long. We've had one very big unknown weighing us down for nearly a year now. Knowing Chris would be leaving the military, but not knowing when he'd be done with the disability process or how hard it would be to find a job and where that job would be. We knew what we wanted out of his future place of employment and where we'd soon be calling "home," but were we really going to get to be that picky?
Excellent news came last week in the form of an interview. Chris had applied for a job with Saint David's in Austin, TX and had been contacted by two different facilities there who were apparently fighting over him : ) He got all kinds of nervous when he found out he'd be flying down for an interview. Regardless of how much I tried to calm him down by insisting that they wouldn't be spending all that money flying him down, putting him up in a nice hotel and getting him a rental car if they weren't seriously considering him for the job, he was still a wreck when he boarded the plane last Thursday. So much so that he nearly made himself sick and spent all of Thursday afternoon and evening passed out in his hotel room.
Friday morning came around and my day started off horribly. My phone died in the middle of the night so I missed Chris' phone call before he left for his interview and I slept right through Bonnie's 8am doctor's appointment. It was a beautiful day, so of course both kids wanted absolutely nothing to do with school and what I was trying to teach them. Just when I thought all hope was lost and I was about to give up on the day all together, the phone rang.
"You're moving to Austin!"
After all that stress and worry, Chris' interview went swimmingly. Everyone loved him. In fact, they liked him so much that they drew up the papers right there on the spot so that he could take them home to me (I love people who value the wife's opinion). We couldn't be happier! Finally some things can be moved from the unknown to the known column. And how appropriate that we'll be heading to the Seattle of the Southwest. A city with a passion for the arts and culture but with the down home feeling you can only find in the Lone Star State. While we still have no ETS (end time in service) date, just the fact that we're knowin' where we're goin' is enough for me : )
Plus, I'll be able to say y'all without someone looking at me funny and saying, "where are YOU from?"