Welcome to Version 2.0 of our family blog. Since our last one wasn't updated in 2yrs I figured it was best to just start a new one on our brand new site :) Tune in often as our life goes through many new changes!
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Job Update
To update about the hiring conference in Atlanta... well, it didn't work out. It was pretty disappointing. He went to another hiring conference in Chicago at the end of August and ended up with 4 out of 7 interviews saying they were interested in him. Long story short... he ended up being hired by a company in Ohio. Yes, Ohio. Yay for a job... but it's kind of a bummer about location. Only because with today's housing market... we can't sell. We were thinking of having him go out there for a couple months and we would try to rent our house out and join him soon. We ended up deciding that for many reasons it's best for us to just stay here till the end of the school year. Hopefully we will be able to sell our house at the end of Spring/Summer and we can be rid of this tie here to Wisconsin and join him. If it still isn't able to be sold... then we will then try to rent it out and join him for the start of the next school year.
Jesse is starting his new job on Sept 29th and will be driving down there on Saturday or Sunday. His dad and siblings are down there around that area so he will be staying with them for a bit until he can find a room somewhere after our finances are figured out.
So that is our job update. :)
Everything else is going well. Hannah was enrolled into the school for 4th grade and she is loving it and doing well. Chloe is enjoying going to Pre-K and Malachi is happy to have his routine back again. It's just Jonas here in the afternoon now and it's weird. Next year it will be just me and him all day long. I've never had just one child home with me... ever. Well, Hannah ... it was just her until I had Malachi when she was 17mos. I am looking forward to taking him out for little outings and just enjoying some one on one time with little man :)
That's it for now I guess. I'm working on uploading and getting more photos moved to this new blog.
Crystal
Hiring Conference on Monday
Jesse is leaving in the morning to fly to Atlanta. He will have about 6 interviews set up for him with various companies. This is how he got his first job here in Wisconsin, it's really a great thing. So please keep Jesse in your thoughts and prayers on Monday and let's hope for some job offers! :)
Kids Update
Summer is halfway over now and we are anxious for the new school year to begin. Hannah finished her first year of the Virtual Academy using K12 curriculum. We really enjoyed it but it basically took the whole year to get used to the switch from homeschooling. Ready to go for 4th grade now!
Chloe will be attending 4K at our public school and she couldn’t be more excited. She will be there for a couple hours each afternoon and I hear rave reviews about our districts 4K program from everyone.
Malachi will be entering the 2nd grade. He has been going to summer school but it’s only Monday and Wednesday from 9:30-11:30. His whole routine is messed up. This is his last week of summer school and then he’s out till school starts again the 1st week of September. Malachi has been doing a lot of interesting things lately. He has found joy in crayons. Not coloring on paper or coloring books however. He has found that he LOVES to color in already colored books. This means reading books. Also, he has found that he loves to color on windows and ... sigh... flat screen monitors. Not good. He also has them stashed everywhere so it’s basically impossible to hide them all from him. Not to mention we have tried forever to get him to color... now he’s coloring but in all the wrong places.
He is also enjoying pedaling a tricycle around the street. His face lights up when riding, he enjoys it so much! Hopefully when we have a stable job we will be able to afford a special needs bicycle for him. I’d love for our whole family to be able to enjoy bike rides! =)
Jonas. Jonas is crazy! He’s the funniest little boy ever. So full of personality. Such a sweet little boy. He has been in speech therapy for a month now. He isn’t really saying anything yet and he will be 2 in October. Lots of sounds and it sounds like he is saying “hi” “dada” “mama”... and I *think* “Hannah” lately... just not real sure. I’m confident that he will start talking. It’s his only delay and for that I’m incredibly thankful. =)
That’s about it for us right now. I will be sure to keep everyone updated on our job situation and please keep us in your prayers.
Crystal