Hey everyone! I spent some time this week on another netowrk reading about current BYU MBA summer internships, but I have to admit at this point I'm not terribly excited about uprooting the kids again and dragging them temporarily across the country next year. Moving has been really stressful for my kids, especially Erick. My heartstrings are already tugging at the prospect of picking him up and moving again so soon. I guess at least next year by this time hopefully we'll have somewhere semi-permanent to live and a job for the summer, which would alleviate some of our current stresses. I wonder if anyone doing internships this year just split for the summer, with the wife and kids staying in Utah while the husband leaves for the internship... I guess I need to have faith, not worry about it so much now, and cross that bridge when we get there.
We're in Salem, now, living with my parents while we look for a home to buy/rent nearer to campus. I've been testing our realtor's patience this week, although she's been really good with everything. We were ready to make an offer on a home in Orem, then last minute I started checking around Provo again and found some I liked there. I called her the day the offer was going to go in, and we decided to wait and to check into the provo ones instead. We loved one and have been talking about making an offer on it, and now for whatever reason I'm going back again to the renting thought and have been checking out rental homes again. It's all going to come down to just making a decision and sticking with it, but I'm feeling this compulsive need to do THE right thing, although I suppose there could be more than one good option. One thing is for certain, I'm really tired of living out of a suitcase (all our things are in storage) and I'm tired of looking at homes. In the meantime we're making far too many trips to Walmart because everything in storage is just too hard to get to!
The kids are funny about the search. Erick likes every house we go to and says "it's great, mom!" - I think he's just trying to appease me, and Izzie keeps telling me we should just get a trailer home so we can park it wherever we want to! I don't know where she got that idea, but somehow it really stuck. I take them with me often during the day, and only appease them by stopping at parks to play every third house or so. We went to Ripple's and got lime freezes for yesterday's treat! Yummy!
Well, back at it again. Maybe I'll take the day off today and we'll go swimming or something. I can't believe how hot it's been here for being May still, but I'm frankly enjoying the DRY heat - something we'd forgotten all about in the Midwest!
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