I'm Home!

Hey guys! We're finally home from vacation. It went...much more smoothly than I expected. =) I had a Scentsy party at my MIL's house that went very well, I enjoyed time with my family, and it was good to get away. Monday starts the grind....back to school. I'm not sure about it.

We spent part of our drive having a pretty serious discussion about the M-word....moving. We've wanted to get out of this town for quite awhile, but the opportunity just hasn't presented itself. We could move to a more desirable location and still keep our jobs (if we could afford to live somewhere else), but right now that's not a choice. We can't shut down the youth group....but we just can't afford to do it. We've really been praying about whether we're supposed to have faith and stay here, or whether to move on. We both want to do what God wants us to do, but we just don't know what that is right now. Do you keep having faith that God will provide, even when your decisions don't make sense to the rest of the world? Or, do you use your God-given common sense to see a situation that just doesn't make sense and take it as an indication that you need to move on?

If we move, we're looking into two places. One is the town where I grew up. The pros are that our children would be around my family and get to spend time with them, which is very important to me. The con is that it's quite a bit more expensive to live there as opposed to where we live now. The other place we're looking at is where my extended family lives, in south Alabama. We love it there...but it's a pretty huge decision. Like I said, I have a lot of extended family there so I know we'd have support, it's cheap to live there, our kids would still be around family, we'd be closer to the in-laws, and we might be able to achieve our goal of having me stay home with our children. The big giant con is that my parents wouldn't be around--they wouldn't get to spend time with our kids, and we would hate that. My niece and nephew aren't there, and while my parents would likely come visit us pretty often, I doubt that my brother, SIL, and the kids (as well as my sister) would be able to make the trip. I would hate to miss out on my niece and nephew growing up...it's hard enough on me as it is to be two hours away from them.

I know that nobody can make these decisions for us...and maybe we're just meant to stay put. I just hate not knowing what to do!