Update

We are NOT moving to Arkansas. We'll just say that it didn't work out, but the good news is that I got hired full time at my job. We are now preparing for Hurricane Ike and I'm a little nervous, but hopefully everything will be ok. We are all doing well. Ainsley slept in in the living room last night and it was her first night out of our room, which I wasn't quite ready for, but she is too big for her bed that is in our room. So we had to move her into her big Pack n' Play that is in the living room. She has become quite the little inchworm. She scoots herself around with her legs while she is sleeping, so she kept waking up because she would push herself up in to the corner of her bed. I'm sure when I will be able to post again because we could be without power for awhile because of the hurricane. Please pray for us and all the Houston area residents that we will make it through the storm safely.

Big News

Well...I haven't been able to blog lately, its been kind of a crazy week. Last week, we were a bit overwhelmed by a couple of things. First of all, last Monday night, we had been out running errands and when we got home at about 8:00pm I let Maverick outside. We put Ainsley down to bed and had been doing a few things and I realized that it had been a while and I hadn't heard Maverick scratching a the door. I asked Patrick to go check on the dog, so he went outside and he was out there for a few minutes and when he came back in Maverick was with him, but he was walking really slow. Patrick said "He's acting like he did something wrong", because whenever he gets on the furniture or gets in the trash he cowers down because he knows that he did something that he wasn't supposed to. I saw him and I said "No, he looks like something is wrong with him". So he came over to him and I looked him over to see if I could find anything wrong with him. His legs and paws looked okay, so I wasn't sure. He wouldn't even lift his head up to look at me. After discussing it with Patrick, I looked him over again, and when I lifted his head up to look at him, I noticed that the right side of his nose was swollen compared to the other side. He went and laid down on his bed and he was looking really pitiful. I asked Patrick if he thought that he could have been bitten by a snake. As soon as i said it, Patrick was like "yeah, I bet that's exactly what happened". Most likely it was a copperhead, because we have tons of them out here. Mav was getting progressively worse and i was really worried about him. I told Patrick to call the vet and they said that he needed to be seen as soon as possible. Patrick asked me if I wanted to wait until the morning to take him because it would be cheaper and I said "I don't want him to die tonight because we didn't take him to the vet". Patrick doesn't understand that Maverick is very important to me and I'll do anything for him. So Patrick loaded him up in the car and took him to the vet. He said by the time they got there Mav's nose was very swollen and he was drooling uncontrollably. The gave him some shots and sent him home with some medicine. We they got home he was already looking better. The next morning he was back to normal. I was so happy that he was okay. So that was the first crazy thing that happened last week.
At the beginning of last week my dad was telling me about a job that one of my parents friends had mentioned to them. It was a job for Patrick doing pretty much the same thing he does now except for he would make 3 times as much as he does now. The catch is that its in Hot Springs, Arkansas. I listened while my dad told me about it, but I didn't really even consider it because it so far away and they need someone there in 2 weeks. On Tuesday Patrick found out that his days off would no longer be the weekends, they would be Wednesday and Thursday. Not long after Patrick found out that bit of news, my dad called him to tell him about the job in Arkansas. When I got home on Tuesday, Patrick told me about this new schedule and that my dad had called and talked to him. I was a little overwhelmed by the news, okay I was very overwhelmed. I realized that the job in Arkansas was something that we really needed to think about, because it isn't feasible for our family for Patrick to have to work every weekend. it basically means that Patrick would never see me and Ainsley, because he would have to work on the only days that I am off. This obviously is ridiculous. The longer we stay here the worse things get and Patrick finally realized that we have to make a change. So we decided that we are moving to Arkansas. Not only do they have a job for Patrick but there is a job for me and I would be able to take Ainsley with me. We couldn't really think of a reason to turn down this opportunity. Wednesday we needed to get more information before we made a real decision about it. Patrick talked to the lady and got some of our questions answered. We pretty much made a decision to just go for it and move to Arkansas. On Thursday, my office manager at work asked if I could come by and see her at some point. I knew that she was going to offer me a full time position with the company because up until this point I have been a temp. I waited to talk to her, because I needed to talk to Patrick at lunch. I needed to know what to tell her when she offered me a job. After lunch I went and talked to her and just as I thought, she offered me a job. After she finished telling be about everything, I told her that my husband had been offered a job and that we were waiting for the letter of intent before we made a final decision. If we stay I definitely want to take the position, but either way Patrick is getting a new job because this one no longer works for our family. Anyways, that's what has been going on with us lately. Oh, if we do go to Arkansas, we have to be there by October 1st. I'll keep you posted on the move, right now, its still pending. I have to give my work a decision by the end of the week, so we have to know something by then.