Change of Plans (Job Update)

So this is how it happened...

In mid-May I took a 1st grade postition with Midland ISD.  The week I got to Midland after school was out I got a call from the Lamesa ISD assisstant superintendent asking if I was still interested in an interview.  I told him that I had already taken a job with MISD but thanks for concidering me.  Didn't think anything else about it.  Last Monday I went and saw my new classroom and got my keys.  I was planning on going later in the week to unload some of my stuff and start getting decorating ideas.  Wednesday I had an appointment with HR to sign my contract and do my other paperwork. Tuesday we ended up going to talk to some home builders in Greenwood (a small community just outside of Midland) and were about to get the ball rolling on the process of buying a spec-house that has been started but not sold.  When we got back in the car I saw that I had a missed call and voicemail from a principal in Lamesa asking me to "PLEASE call me back" and she left the school number and her cell phone.  I got in touch with her and she asked if I was interested in interviewing.  At that moment so many thoughts went through my head and I think I just asked her if I could talk it over with my husband and call her back in a bit.  These were our thoughts...1) It can't be coincidence that they've called me twice.  2) The timing also is interesting- here we are ABOUT to get busy with this house building stuff but we had not gotten in too deep. 3) We have not signed any paper work on my MISD job or the house. 4) This would be the most relaxed interview I would probably ever go on knowing that I already had a job so we might as well see what they have to say.  So I called her back and we set up an interview for 9:30 the next morning (the same day I was supposed to sign paperwork with MISD).

Lamesa's Elementary schools are set up a bit differently.  They have a pk-2 campus and a 3-5 campus.  Their interview process is to speak with both principals and the superintendent (in my case the assissant superintendent).  So I started with the 3-5 principal and I did like her.  I liked the way she ran her school.  I could see myself there if I had to be.  Next I went to the pk-2 campus.  The principal there was great.  He instantly made me feel comfortable and at home.  While I liked the other campus, I LOVED this one.  Evertyhing about they way he runs his school seems like the perfect fit for me.  From there I went to speak with the assisstant superintendent.  I told him (and both principals) up front that I already had an offer from MISD but we would rather be in Lamesa.  We spoke for a while and he then told me that he was not the one that offers positions; that was up to the principals.  He also told me that because I wanted to be local, I had expeirence and I friends in the area made me very desirable to Lamesa.  We spoke a little longer and he said he was going to step out to make a phone call.  He came back in and told me that he had called both principals and said "before you leave today I want you to know you have a position somewhere with us.  I don't know which campus it will be but you have a job with us". 

So Levi and I spent the rest of the day driving around town with a co-worker of his looking at houses and we just felt like that is where we needed to be.  I called the assisstant superintendent back and told him I would take the job (by this time I had heard from the pk-2 principal and he said the job would be on that campus- either 1st or 2nd grade). 

I'm not a big believer in coincidence.  If there ever was a "God-thing" this is one!  The timing of the phone calls, the fact that I hadn't gotten around to unloading my stuff at the school in Midland, the fact that we had not signed ANY paperwork, the fact that housing is SO much more reasonable in Lamesa than Midland.  I know that Lamesa is where God wants us right now- He's made it quite obvious :)

I'll try to keep everyone updated about which grade level I get and when we will start the move and housing and all that but for now...I should start thinking about packing up all our stuff....again :)

7 months!

Well things have slowed down but yet are still strangely crazy with us right now. School has been wrapped up, my classroom packed up and and loaded into the back of Levi's truck, back of my Tahoe, and back of my in-laws suburban...yeah, who knew I had that much stuff?! We got all of Lydia's and my stuff backed up from my mom's house and headed out to Midland. More on that to come in a later post. Little Miss has done pretty well with her readjusting to a different place. We've gotten out and about several days since we've been there. Which is really saying something since you are risking your life every time you get on the roads in that crazy town!

Here are some Little Miss stats: She is ccompletely off of breastmilk. That just wasn't working out real well for us. She is now doing about 6-8 oz soy formula in the morning, 4-6 oz mid morning, 1/4 cup rice cereal and a half or so jar of veggies or fruit for lunch, another 4-6 oz bottle mid afternoon, another serving of same amounts of cereal and fruits/veggies and then usually a little 3 or 4 ouncer right before bed. She is still on the small side but we feed her when she's hungry and she stops when she's full so what more can we do?

She is on the move! She's really getting the crawling thing down. She's not super fast at it but she gets from A to B. she apparently doesn't think that makes her big enough because she has also started pulling up on stuff and just letting go like she's going to take off walking! Talk about being too big for her britches!

It is getting really hard to get non-blurry pictures of her face. This is what most of her pictures look like these days...

  She is starting to actually play with her toys and be interested in them. There are several that just make her whole face light up.  She has also started fruits and veggies. So far she is NOT a fan of green beans or peas and I think she might be allergic to squash so we will try all of those again later. She does like carrots and sweet potatoes. The only fruits she has tried so far are apples, pears, and bananas and she loves them all. Things still have not slowed down enough for me to try making my own food for her but that is still on the agenda for this summer. Here is her first taste of veggies...green beans :)

We also found out this month that we definitely have a water baby!  She had her first swim and she LOVED it.  We've taken her several times since and she get more excited every time we go!

     

I have loved having the freedom to be super lazy with Little Miss all day or getting out and about with her...and of course we both LOVE having Papa home on the days he doesn't fly. On to the adventures of next month!  Here are a few more from this month...