Homesick...

My neice was able to come home Friday!!! So Saturday morning we were up at 7am to take Buddy to Petsmart so he could play at daycamp. Then we were on our way to Baldwyn. We got there at 10 and Abby was just lifeless. She had no strength and just felt horrible! I felt so bad for her. (Good news is that today she is perky and seems to be getting back to her old self!)
After we visited with her for a while we took her older sister and younger brother to our family reunion. Ughhh really disklike going to those things but ehh it is what it is and you feel obligated to go because you never know what tomorrow will bring. It was Ian's first one and he left saying "wow those people are rude" yeah I know which is why I try to avoid going.
Anyways after that we took Jacie & Jed swimming at the Booneville country club. aahhhh heaven! The BCC is so nice and secluded! It's nothing like Booneville, I swear I could buy a house by the CC and never leave. haha It's so pretty!
Then we had to rush, change clothes so we could get back to Memphis by 9 before Petsmart closed. There is just nothing for us here in Memphis other than our jobs. I would miss being close to the conveniences that Memphis offers but there is so much more that I wouldn't miss. Crime & traffic being the top two!
I moved to Memphis for my job 5 years ago. I was young, single, and had to get away from the small town of Booneville. Now 5 years later I'm older, hopefully wiser, family oriented and really just want to be near my family. Even though Ian is not from Booneville (Richmond, VA) he really wants to move there, he loves it. He's not close to his family so he has no desire to move to Richmond. I love Richmond though and probably could live there 5 years or so but I would ultimately want to be back home. Abby being sick in the hospital really drove that desire home for me. I HATED that she was sick and I couldn't just drive to the hospital after I got off work. I hate that my mother has Sunday lunches and I can't just drop in for 2 hours, see her then go back home. Going home is an all day/weekend thing. It's exhausting to go home!
The tricky part is jobs... I love my field but it really bites me in the butt. Not too many culinary jobs in that area. I don't want to work in a restaurant. I would love to teach family & consumer science (a home ec spin-off) but no schools in the area offer it. The schools that offer it and currently have openings are in the Delta and Jackson area, and well that defeats my purpose of trying to get closer to home.
I would really enjoy teaching but I would have to take a HUGE paycut and I would have to go back to school. I wouldn't mind to go back to school...
My husband is easy, he works in maintence. He also welds, knows extensive car knowledge so he could find a job pretty easy.
It's just me. Sigh...
We are hoping the Toyota plant could offer a good opportunity for him but you never know... that is still a ways away.
Then our house... the housing market stinks as well all know for sellers. Would we lose our butts? Probably so and that is depressing...

And that my friends is my daily ramblings...