Good Bye March

It is the end of March today, and I feel like March tried to beat us. It brought excitement, sure, moving to Medicine Hat to be "missionaries" and plant a church is pretty awesome.
But with it also came some distractions and false hope. We spent a good amount of March trying to secure the ability to purchase a house instead of renting one once we got to the Hat. Because of this process, we had to let some time go by while everything was sorted out. Turns out that without a job there, lenders don't really want to give me a bunch of money to buy a house. Weird huh?

Once we realized that we needed to shift from property buying to property renting, we had just a few days left to find something. It's a pretty good thing that my wife had be planning a contingency, and researched some options for us ahead of time. That being said, we have had just a couple days to communicate back and forth and secure a place 1250kms away. Today we will give the final go ahead on a unit that should suit our needs for the next year or two.

I am looking forward to April, and I have a feeling that it will be good to us. April will afford us many opportunities to share time with family and friends before we leave. Sure school the kids' school work may not like April, since we will probably do a good bit of ignoring it, but there will be plenty of time for heads down school work once we get settled in our new home. Until then, we will be taking advantage of every opportunity to spend time with the people that we love, and even some people that we like.

Now, to spend a good portion of what little March we have left trying to figure out my job situation. Stay here and send the kids ahead while working and waiting for my licensing exam in May...go, get a job, and come back mid-May for my licensing exam...help move the family there, then come back right away to work and get ready for the exam...

Tick-Tock...