It finally happened. Mason has a new job!!! We have been waiting for this for quite some time (a little over a year actually). He has applied at countless places and has even had a few interviews here and there, but nothing ever came from any of them. As you can imagine, we were getting very disgruntled. When he did work, it was great, but it seemed like the company he worked for just couldn't give them enough to stay busy for long, so he spent A LOT of time unemployed.
Well, last spring Mason took the paraprofessional praxis so he could apply for that type of a position this fall since he wouldn't have his 60 hours yet. When positions finally came open in the school districts he applied, but still heard nothing. Finally, on August 29th, Mason got a phone call from the Waynesville R-VI School District about a couple of interviews that would be held that Wednesday (the 31st). One was at Freedom Elementary which is where I taught 5th grade my first year of teaching; it's a 3-6 school. The other was at East Elementary which is a K-2 school. Mason acted like both interviews went well, but felt very confident about the one at East. With the interviews out of the way, he was able to relax a little and just wait. Luckily, he didn't have to wait long. Friday morning around 9 I received a text message from Mason saying that human resources had called and wanted to offer him one of the jobs, and it happened to be the one at East Elementary. He obviously accepted, and he is now just waiting on the paperwork to really make it official. I'm definitely proud of him, and it's a huge weight lifted off our shoulders. Even though he's a little nervous about starting, I know he'll do fabulous! To celebrate, we spent last Saturday in St. Louis shopping and getting him a bunch of clothes so he had something appropriate to wear that wasn't old ratty t-shirts and jeans with holes in them! ; )
Not only did Mason get a job on the 2nd, but so did my brother and Mason's sister! My brother had been searching for jobs ever since he graduated in May and had been on countless interviews, with no luck. But that particular Friday, he was offered TWO! Talk about a lucky day!! We (Mason and I) have been praying for quite some time that something would fall into place for not only us, but for my brother and his sister's family, and it finally did! God definitely had something in mind for all of us, we just had to be patient and wait!
Other than that, I have been staying busy with school starting. It has been going well and I have a pretty good group of kids. Mason's classes are also going well (at least that's what he tells me) and he's excited that after this semester he'll hopefully only have roughly a year left until he graduates. Speaking of Mason, remember the accident we had? Well, he had to go back to court again on the 7th, and it was decided that he is going to have to do two years of unsupervised probation. It really only applies when he's driving, but if he would have any kind of moving violation in those two years, it's possible he'd have to go back in front of the judge who has free range of punishment...ugg. Here's hoping we don't have to even worry about that!
On another good note, we've begun the house-hunting process. We've looked at 5 so far, and there's one that really caught our attention. We have several more we are going to be looking at in the next couple of weeks so that's pretty exciting as well. We definitely want to make sure we take our time so we find something that will really work for us, especially since we don't have to be out of the house we are in at any point.
I think that's about it as far as updates are concerned. We are going to Iowa next weekend for my cousin Amy's wedding..woohoo!! And luckily, it happens to be Dunkerton's homecoming so we will have the opportunity to attend the game and watch my brother coach. And then the following weekend we will be going to Branson for the 5K and to wander around Silver Dollar City. Guess I better get back to running in a hurry..: ) Even though the Hawkeyes lost, it's been a pretty good weekend so far! Hope the rest of you have had a great one also!
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