Big News.

If you want the short story - scroll to the bottom of the post.

As some of you know, Mr. Skinny's grandfather passed away in February and ever since then we've felt pretty bad that we live the farthest away if we're just looking at the immediate family. I mentioned in that post that I feel guilty because Mr. Skinny wasn't able to spend the last few years with Pop Pop as much as he should have. I know, none of us knew when God would be calling Pop Pop home, but still. I have some of that guilt.

A few days later, I mentioned how I felt the calling to have a baby. Well really I think it was the calling to move back home. Mr. Skinny felt it, too. We've been thinking about it and talking about it for a few months since then. I didn't want to move back, I enjoy our freedom down here, the location is really great and we haven't utilized the area as much as I would have liked over the past few years.

So March came and we put an offer on a house, but it fell through. We kept looking but then we found out we had to empty our savings thanks to Uncle Sam. Although it was an answer to prayers, it wasn't quite the way we would have liked to have them answered. That ended our house search very quickly. We talked about it some more. Mr. Skinny has a job, and it's a pretty good job and while we're very thankful to his foreman for getting him that job, this foreman isn't the nicest guy. He takes advantage of Mr. Skinny's do-anything-for-anyone attitude. He drives to the job site almost everyday because foreman is just "too tired". He blames Mr. Skinny for things that he has no control over and says that he does it to help Mr. Skinny learn. So yes, he has a job, which we're VERY thankful for, but it's not ideal.

Onto me. I have a job, which is great, but I'm not happy with it. I'll be graduating this month with no potential jobs. In order to keep my job, I have to continue going to school, which isn't a huge deal - I can go to community college. It's stil $800/semester though. We don't have that kind of money.

We talked about it some more. Mr. Skinny talked to his cousin, who is in construction. He thinks that Mr. Skinny can get a job up in PA. We're moving in with my parents as soon as he gets a job.

I'm happy that we'll move back up with family, but it's going to be hard to close this chapter of my life. The chapter that I worked so darn hard to get to. The area in which we live in PA is VERY rural, and in order to be successful you most likely have to move away from the area. So I feel like moving back reverses our success. I know you CAN be successfuly while living there, but all I ever wanted to do was move out.

I've known since I was 15 that we'd be moving back to PA at some point. I wasn't thrilled with it, but when you fall in love with the man, you can't argue that. He's had his heart set on the land forever, literally. It was in the contract when I said "Yes" to marry him, and still in the contract when I said "I do". I knew it wasn't going to change, but I didn't know it would come so soon. I know it's the right decision, truly I do, but it's still hard to be okay with.

So there ya have it. Sometime this summer, probably sooner than later, Mr. Skinny and I are packing up our stuff and moving back to PA, and moving back in with my parents.