Home!?!

Well, the last boxes have been unpacked and their contents put in the proper place.  Sue’s settled in nicely.  I think she’s really happy being around her family again.  I’m still trying to get used to calling Pittsburgh home.  Actually, we’re living in Butler right now.  It’s about 45 minutes north of Pittsburgh.

We’re staying up here temporarily for two reasons.  First, to take care of Sue’s mom.  Sue’s dad died pretty suddenly in January.  He was only 55 years old and the family has been devastated.    So hopefully having us around will make her feel a little bit better.  I’m glad to help out by doing things that Bob would have taken care of like mowing the lawn and cleaning out the rat traps from the attic.  We’re also up here while we look for jobs.  Sue was pretty adamant about coming out here as soon as we could, so we came up on faith with no jobs or even interviews.  That leaves us currently unemployed.  So staying here rent free is certainly a plus.  So we’ve been spending most of our waking hours looking for jobs.  There have been a lot of openings here for elementary teachers which has been nice for me, but so far there have been no interviews.  From what I’ve gathered, the teacher market is pretty flooded because of the number of colleges in the area.  I would think my years of experience would help me rise above the pack.  Time will tell.  Sue’s been really stressing because there have been no chemistry teacher positions to open up yet.  She’s looking all over for industry jobs as well.

The plan is once we both get jobs,  find a house in the area.  There are some beautiful homes we’ve been looking at, but we can’t decide on anything until we figure out where we’ll be working.

Maggie’s loving having a big fenced in back yard to run around in.  I’m loving not having to take her out on a leash anymore!  But I must say how much I’m missing my family back home.  It was great getting to know them as adults rather than parents or brothers.  As with everything else, that time ended sooner than I would have wished and I look forward to seeing them again.

And that’s what’s been going on.  Since I’ve got nothing else to do I’ll be on here a little more often to try to keep up with people.