re: moving on

I know its been a few weeks, but a lot has been happening in our lives! For starters, we sold our house!!! It officially went under contract on Monday, August 10, 20009 and we are now in the home stretch before closing on Sept 22, 2009 ( It may move to sept 21). Anyway, so we are in the midst of inspections and doing last minute tiny repairs.. We did have a scare last week when our AC went out, luckily it was just a breaker, but man did Dom and I truly sweat it out. It is not the best time to sell a house right now and that just would have added to it for sure!!! Tomorrow is the laclede gas inspection and then we are in go mode! In addition, we finalized tonight that we are able to come back to St. Louis to close in person. Dom's company is paying for us to fly round trip and rent a car in order to do this. We come in on Thurs, Sept 17, pre-close on the 18, the movers come on the 19 and we leave the 20. It will be a whirl wind trip, but one we thought important to do. Its going to really finalize our move, and give us a chance to have one last time at our first home. It is definately going to be an emotional trip, but one that will be worthwhile. It is time to move forward.

Speaking of moving forward, I just took a nanny job as of 6pm this evening! Since I had to quit the best job I EVER had ( a school social worker in elementary school setting), I told Dom I wanted time to adjust and figure out where in my career I wanted to go next. In doing so, I decided in order to bring in some extra income and still be with Tyler, I would try to find a nanny position and that I did. I will basically be caring for twins... Tyler is 7 months as is Caleb who was born 3 days before my son! I did a trial run with both boys this week and it went well. They dont live to far from us as I will be watching them in their home every day ( kinda nice to get out of our small apartment!). I look forward to being able to be with Tyler every day and also giving him some interaction as well as myself since Caleb's mom works from home. It is truly the perfect set up. I feel lucky to be able to do this and look foward to it.

Well, so far so good. While it still is not easy at times, I feel we are finding our way nicely. We still have lots to discover and lots to do, but all in time. Our next step is the closing of our home in St. Louis. I feel once that is complete, we can fully be committed to our new life in Richmond. While it may not feel like home right now, I have come to realize "home" is where my family is and as long as I have Dom and Ty by my side, I will always be HOME! Stay tuned..

Bridgette