Beggining Cont.

So China will be AWESOME. We found out in March and at the end of April we still decided to put our house on the market. At the time it seemed to make very little sense to us but it felt right and we learned long ago to try and work with those particular feelings and promptings. At that point we had no guaranteed job for this next year and still weren't sure if we wanted to stay or move a lot was up in the air and dependent on the house sale.
It is now the end of May we ended up with 3 offers over a 3 week period of time the 1st cancelled 2 days later and was a little discouraging the 2nd came in with a crazy low offer and thankfully the very next morning as Goldilocks would say was one that was just right.
We are past the inspection period and every thing is going pretty well on course to have us out of the house by June 7.
Thankfully we heard back a week or two ago about a couple of jobs so we just had to decide which to take and figure out a place to live since we won't have one pretty soon.
Neither of us was very excited about apartment hunting and one of the jobs was on the Navajo Reservation with teacher housing so we figured why not?

We have never been there but it's a small desert town not far from the Four Corners area. It will be about 2 hours from any medium sized towns and about 6 hours from Phoenix.  We will still be close enough that it wont be a terrible trip to visit family and friends. There is beautiful camp grounds about 30 min away and we have had the goal for awhile to get our boys out camping. AND we will get to experience a whole new culture being with the Navajo people.
 Sounds like a nice little adventure to me :)

Although I am not used to the small town life, I really have high hopes of us having more "family" time this next year. The last few years Clete has worked mostly 12 up to 16 hour work days. 2 of those years he worked every Saturday on top of that. The kids saw him for a few minutes in the morning and on Sunday when he wasn't at meetings. I think this move will definitely take some adjusting but if it will get us a husband and father we can see on a more daily basis I'm willing to make the plunge.
Our oldest is 3 and he already has his back pack packed and has been telling everyone he is moving to the mountains and going camping. It is adorable. Kids can make the best out of any situation so I may just take my cues from them for a bit.
This week Clete is headed up there for the 1st time to sign paperwork and get a feel for things so I will be excited to see pictures and get an idea of what we will be working with as far as housing goes.
Till then.