Well, We're Movin' On Up...
To northeastern Illinois. John got another promotion, so here we go again! This is not yet the District Team Leader position that he has his sights set on, but a promotion nonetheless.
His title is Operational Specialist over 4 districts of stores, all in Illinois and Wisconson. In a nutshell, his job will be to help the Store Team Leaders fix their fucked up stockrooms, receiving and flow processes (replenishment). There are more operational aspects that he'll be dealing with, like the front end (which is like the service desk, check-outs, etc) but I'll not bore ya'll with the details. Mostly stockroom stuff.
So he'll have about 40 stores that he oversees this stuff on. Lots of daytime travelling, but hopefully not a ton of overnight stuff.
At first I was less than pleased with the move (even though we discussed it and agreed that he should interview for it), because this is the first place I've actually made NEW friends. One of which has moved with Target, too, but the other is still here and I just love her! Our sons are both 4 (and both only children), and they adore each other. When it's time for Daniel to go home, Brent says "I just want Daniel to stay here for a thousand days!" Brent is the reason I was dreading the move... last year he HATED preschool and cried every time I dropped him off. This year he LOVES it and wants to go every day. I'm afriad that putting him in a new school is gonna turn into last year all over again. Especially cuz it'll be in the middle of the year (like last year). But I'm getting a little excited now.
We'll be just north of Chicago, where there are so many fun things to do... can't wait to take Brent to the zoo, the aquarium, Six Flags... two weekends ago we took Brent with us up there to scope out some neighborhoods and stuff and we passed Six Flags and Brent wanted to go there immediately :-) We also happened upon Gurnee Mills Mall which is HUGE. They have an ice hockey rink in there, which is attached to an insanely huge and noisy arcade. We took Brent there for dinner and to play. He couldn't take his eyes off the youth hockey game that was being played, and announced that he wants to learn how to play hockey (YES!! But first he needs to learn how to skate. This place gives lessons).
So, Brent is getting a little more accepting of it when he sees all this cool stuff by where we're gonna move. We've told him that we aren't gonna live by Daniel anymore, but he's not grasping that. We'll still get together with them, but right now they see each other almost every day with school, swimming lessons and the childcare at the exercise place Linda and I go to. I'm sure there will be an adjustment period, as there always is, but I think we'll get through it and he'll be fine.
My parents are watching Brent this weekend while John and I go house-hunting with our realtor. Those who know me well know that this is my favorite part. Realtor.com is bookmarked in My Favorites thingie on the computer. Even when we aren't moving, I love looking at houses. This part is lots of fun for me. We're hoping to find one we love this weekend and write an offer either while we're there or early next week. We'll probably end up taking Target's offer to buy our house, cuz we want to get it done ASAP, since John already started his new job yesterday. I'll keep you all posted!
11 comments:
Well thank God you finally announced it, cuz I've been sitting on this news for like two weeks now. =-) And I only told Anna. And Mom. And Jeff.
Good luck!! I just now saw this at 5:23 but I'm sending very happy thoughts your way.
Aw, good luck. Even though I wish you were moving closer! I hope that in the end you get to be in GR or somewhere closer! But we can still meet in the middle and have an overnight blog party sometime!
Good luck with everything Renee! Tell your hubby congrats on the promotion. I'm sure your little man will do just fine , especially with all the cool stuff nearby.
Glad that good things are happening for your family.
Congratulations on the move and on your husbands promotion. It will be better for your son now than it would be if it happened later. He'll still be starting off in school with the rest of the kids in the area. If you moved later he'd probably be seen more as an outsider. I hope things work out great for you guys and the move goes smoothly.
The Lumpy
Congrats!! Hope you found a great new house!
She had a really busy weekend so I shall post a quick update on her behalf.
They found a house they like but they have to wait for Target to make an offer on their current house before they can move on this one. They hope to hear something this week from the Big T, and they really hope it happens sooner rather than later, as there is someone else who is also interested in the house they like.
Holy crap, Donald Trump, that's quite a house!!!!
A finished basement? Enough room for your spinster best friend, perhaps?
Hmmm. Well, I was gonna turn the whole basement into a mini-apartment type situation, but I guess that will do.
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