Moving!

I haven't posted in a very long time.  But we have had a lot going on for the past two months.  A whole lot.  All of which is summed up by:

We are moving to Greenville!

We are extremely sad to be leaving our dear friends in Atlanta.  But we are SO stinkin' excited too to be moving back to South Carolina!!  We had always hoped to one day live in Greenville and that day came a lot sooner than we expected.  Our program at Clemson from undergrad also covers a full-time master's program for two years.  The offer doesn't expire, so it will always be available for us...and Mark has always wanted to someday return to Clemson to get an MBA.  After Susanna was born we realized how difficult it would be for our family if we waited much longer on this.  It made sense to complete the MBA sooner rather than later, so that Susanna would be young when Mark finished it.  Earlier this year Mark began casually job searching in Greenville, not expecting to find anything.

Completely unexpectedly in March, Mark came across the perfect job for his background/education/experience with Resurgent Capital Services in Greenville.  It's a great company with great values and a great work/life balance, and also a company with whom a friend of ours has some connections.  We were pumped.  Our life has been a crazy rollercoaster ever since then.  In the two months since Mark first applied for the job, he has interviewed, received an offer, and accepted the offer; we put our house on the market and have been under contract three times (looks like this last one will work out after all); been house hunting in Greenville three times, made two offers, and have a contract on a house in Greenville (which I completely love).  In the midst of all of this craziness we are so grateful to have a God who cares for us, who goes before us and guides our steps.  If He knows when sparrows fall, won't He be guiding who buys our house in Marietta and where we live in Greenville?

If all goes well, we will move to a temporary apartment in Greenville on May 18, close on our house in Marietta on May 20, and Mark will finish work at CarMax on May 21.  We will drive up to Virginia for Wyn's (Mark's little brother's) graduation over Memorial Day weekend, and Mark will start his new job on May 28.  We will close on our house in Greenville on May 30.  Beginning in August, Mark will be returning to Clemson to pursue an MBA.  He will be taking three classes per semester and will finish the program in two years.

We are so blessed by these new opportunities--a wonderful new job, a scholarship for an MBA, and a great house in Greenville--praise the Lord for His goodness!!  We are thrilled that we will be living only about an hour and a half away from my parents.

We would really appreciate your prayers that the Lord's plan for us would continue to be made clear, and that Susanna would do well with all of the transitions.  She's been a trooper--my car has pretty much been a traveling nursery and she's been fed/changed/napped all over creation for the past two months.  However with all of the hubbub and packing, we can tell she knows her little world is changing and there's not much you can do to explain things to an almost-6-month-old (!!!).