My Birthday Wish

This week is the best week of the year because it is the week of my birthday. What can be more amazing than that? (Okay, a lot of things, but humor me.) Rachel has been counting down the days until our birthdays, as her's falls just three days after mine. I can honestly tell you that I am more excited for her birthday than my own. I mean, I love to party as much as the next person, but when you get older, birthdays are just lame. Not to mention that I am someone turning 34, which is getting close to 35, which is getting closer to 40, which is just odd since I still think of myself as 25. How I have an almost 11 year-old is a mystery.

What I really want for my birthday is the answer to the big question- will Marshall be hired by CES? Is that too much to ask to know what fate lies ahead of us? I mean, really, it's not like we have been going through this process since August and are on pins and needles awaiting the outcome. Not at all. Not to mention the very good possibility, as everyone in CES keeps telling us, of moving to somewhere else in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, or Arizona. For the record, I refuse to move to Wyoming. I told the interviewer I would be willing to move if that was the case, but that was before I knew there were CES people in Wyoming. No deal! We do know there is an opening in Vernal, Utah and Marshall's friend is convinced we will be moving there. So convinced that he even bought Marshall a pair of winter gloves to help with the cold. Ha. So. not. funny. This week begins the time when we could possibly get some news about whether Marshall is hired or not. The time-line is very vague, sometime starting now to the end of April. Ummm...... I vote for now! Will we be having to pack up? Will we be staying? Will Marshall not get hired? Ahhh!

While it has been a very crazy year, it has also been a very spiritual year as well. The Lord has let us know over and over that this is the path we need to take. I have no doubt that we need to do this. None. No question. I know. And the Lord has strengthened us along the way and given us peace each time we begin to worry or question our sanity in seeking this out. Even if we are sent to Wyoming (gulp) I will do it because I know it is what the Lord wants.

If we don't get hired, it'll be sad. But regardless of the outcome, this year has been an amazing one of personal and couple growth. I feel like Marshall and I have become even closer and a more powerful team. I have loved it, despite the challenges, because the growing and stretching and pulling to the point of almost breaking, has made us stronger.

Now, back to that birthday wish, let's hope it comes true!