Family Snapshot

Just a little update about our lives right now. January is a pretty boring month so I don't have any fun things to blog about...hopefully February will prove more interesting. :)

We are still in Manti...not loving it. Brian's job is near unbearable. The only reason he is still on his feet is the promise of it ending. His boss finally retired in December and he has applied for his position. He will most likely interview next week. All the talk from the higher ups is that he'll get it. I'm so proud of him. He's worked hard there and truly proved himself. People love him. He deserves this for his efforts. We have also applied to go back to school to get his Ph.D. It's been his dream for years and he just hasn't been willing to pull the trigger. This job and this town have pushed him over the edge. We applied to University of Utah, University of Southern California and University of Kansas. They all have their pluses and minuses and we weigh them out constantly. We won't hear back from any of them until Marchish so we are waiting on pins and needles. Brian is more hesitant about this bold of a move than me. I'm ready for change and I've felt good and comforted about this decision. He mostly is concerned about uprooting our family and I am too, but I feel we'll be blessed...especially him and the old kids. Him possibly getting this promotion has made him second guess even more. He hates the prison though and I really really don't like this area. Sometimes I feel like I'm crawling out of my skin. I feel so isolated and detached from the world. The kids friends are just okay. Neither of them are super attached and have taken their fair share of being left out and treated badly. They just both came into situations where friendships were established so they are often the third wheel. That hurts my mama heart to watch. I really don't love the weather. The house we have rented doesn't have heat upstairs so in the winter we pay $400 a month to heat the thing and we are still bundled up and freezing all the time. Anyways, I feel like a whiner so that's enough.

Next week, I think I'll have a little more of a fun post...if we can get out of this town and find some fun. :)