we're excited!

BECAUSE ...

You know how we moved here a year ago thinking it would be a six month ordeal, at most, and then we'd be trucking right along? Well obviously it hasn't turned out that way and we've been wondering WHAT'S GOING ON!

My sweet husband has been searching high and low for a job that will fit our family well, provide for our needs and make us happy. Obviously, the making us happy part is just a plus, it's not a demand by any means. ANYWAYS, we are finally "yay close" to possibly having something that we feel fits us in all the right ways. There are still things we don't know about but will find out soon. I'm going to be pretty vague until we know more BUT...

Wait...first...a little history on the things we've had in our heart to do. Obviously there is the missionary pilot stuff my husband has been pursuing for yeeeeears. We're sooo close but for some reason there have been many roadblocks the past year it seems.

When I was an "older teenager", 18 or so, I had a huge desire to one day open a maternity home for unwed mothers who want help finding an adoptive family OR want help in learning how to raise their child. There are way more things involved than just that but that's the jest of it.

Then I met Sean, fell in love and we got married. All our energies were set on his aviation goals. We knocked them out one by one, all but this last and final step that keeps not happening. I figured wherever we ended up with his flying I could make my dreams happen there.

We started talking about the possibility of looking into being house parents. It sounds like something we'd both be really good at! He also has always had a desire to help "troubled" teenage girls. (I hate to use the word troubled because often they're not the problem at all, they just need to break some family cycles and learn healthy life skills.)

ANYWAYS, that's where this job possibility comes in. It's not a maternity home but it's a girls home in Kansas. We'd be house parents-responsible for up to seven girls. Our "job description", which I feel is not a job description at all, is us being leaders, encouragers, helpers, counselors (a parent form) to these girls who really need a solid and firm family environment in which to flourish. We'd have weekly meetings with the director and other house parents, I'd have other ladies around me with kids the same age as Anna-Kate, life would be very consistent and scheduled (which I LOOOOVE), Sean and I would both be home (which I also LOVE). There are many other things that I just can't think of right now because I'm so overwhelmed with it all-a good overwhelmed.

Sean and I have both talked to the director, him twice and me once. The conversations went really well. I really enjoyed getting to chat with him about the questions I had. After we got off the phone with him the other night we were even MORE excited about this actually possibly happening for us. We are going up there in a couple of weeks for a face to face greeting. There is one other couple in the "running" for the job. Whether we get it or not, we pray that whomever is going to fill this very important role at the ranch will be the right family. If that isn't us, we know God has something else in store. If we ARE offered the position, we will still be in prayer for a couple extra days about whether or not this is the place for us...unless for some reason we get there, meet everyone and just KNOW we're sold! No matter where it all goes, all we know is that we want to align with His will and stay under His covering. Simple as that.

If we do get the job and all is a go, we'll move after the baby is born-the end of Feb/beginning of March. There is a house parent family who moved there expecting a child, went back to their hometown to have the baby where insurance would cover it and then came back with a newborn. SO, I'm not too worried about it being doable. I'm waiting on an email from her so I can ask the "mom questions" I have. After those questions are answered I can't imagine how much more excited I'll be.

All of this comes in perfect time, and I mean PERFECT, if it is to come at all. I won't go into detail. I'm trying not to freak out about it. All of my excitement turns into great panic when I think about all we have to get done in two small months and with a newbie on the way.

So God, please come through.

I'll keep you updated as I know more. Until then, please keep us in your prayers.