Brief Update

I'm blogging from work again, so this is going to be brief. But I wanted to fill everyone in on our life as of late.

First of all, we made a frantic trip back to Atlanta the week of the 20th to pack all of our stuff. I can't even imagine what we would have done without the help of our amazing friends. A HUGE thank you to Gina, Brian, Julie, Todd, Alison, Steven, Christy, Gary, Rob, Devon and Danielle for helping us pack and load all of our crap in the 27 foot moving van Saturday. Even though we sold our sectional, ottoman and dining room table and 8 chairs, we still barely fit everything in the van. And another thank you to Danielle for volunteering to clean our dirty house from top to bottom after we left - heaven knows how late we would have been pulling out Sunday if I'd had to clean. We were late enough getting in as it was. And thank you to Mimi and Pawpaw for lunch Saturday, what a treat! Whew I hope I didn't miss anyone!

Monday night, with the help of my parents, brother Curtis, his friend Beau and Lana and Eddie, we unloaded into a storage unit here in MS - again barely squeezing it all in. I mean where did all of this junk come from? I thought I cleaned out before we moved the last time??!!

Friday the 28th (I think) Jeff took a solo trip to ATL to close on the house. I had to give him POA because I can't take time off from work just yet. He came back on Saturday with a big smile and small check in his pocket. It definitely wasn't as much as we'd hoped to make off of the house, but we're not complaining in this market. We were lucky the loan went through at all, evidentally the guy had a LOT of money in collections he had to pay off at the closing table, which explains why he had no cash to put down. We also found out he's looked at 200+ houses before deciding on ours, so that made us feel pretty good about the sale.

I guess you've all heard by now that Citibank bought Wachovia today, which means an uncertain job future for Jeff right now. Please keep us in our prayers as we navigate these difficult times - although I am very aware that an uncertain job future if very minor in comparison to what so many other Americans are facing right now. This doesn't mean he's going to lose his job, at least not yet, but his banking future has definitely become much murkier. I have to admit that as much as I miss our GA friends, I've been counting my blessings everyday that we're in MS and not GA right now. Today we both have jobs, we have a (free) roof over our heads and a wonderful family to come home to everyday. We are truly blessed.