Tuesday's ramblings...

I’d rather be super duper busy than totally bored at work….blah! It’s another slow day….tick tock tick tock….blah….I’m like Sara was yesterday…somebody post so I have something to read! Lol…. So I’m posting…this will be so random because I don’t really have anything to post about….

Last night I put up the his and her hammocks with very little help from husband…his dad has asked him to put the tractor back together and seems to be going to supply the $$$ with which to put it back together, so husband is working on what he can until his dad can come through with $$$. Yippee…lol…husband doesn’t seem all excited about it…but anyway…I digress…

I say there are his and her hammocks because…ok so when mom and dad moved into the new house, there was a hammock stand left behind. So dad gave us that hammock stand. We bought a hammock on Saturday (see previous post). So that’s hers…the “his” is the old hammock from mom and dad’s old house in Tucky. It was in Ohio and the parents had offered it to sister and BIL but since they never picked it up…we threw it in our truck when we left (the first time) mom and dad’s on Sunday…mom said she was tired of looking at it…lol…

So now we have his and her hammocks…husband is all excited to have something to have to mow around (total sarcasm lol)…I said that’s probably why BIL never picked it up…he didn’t want to mow around it...lol

So then I made tuna helper for supper…we love that and haven’t had it in a long while.

Husband went to the doctor yesterday and his blood pressure is back to normal…see that’s another reason he left that old company….he was just watching his blood pressure go up and up and up…and now a little over a year after leaving that company…normal…

Did I post about his decision? He’s decided now is not the time to go back to the old company…he called and talked with the guy that is trying to recruit him, and while things are improving, it’s still not the place for him at this time. He said this weekend that he’d made his peace with his decision, so it’s off the table right now….

We talked a little about it last night….I asked him if he was still sure about not going back and he said yes…and I told him that I thought that in a way I was happy because I was really so afraid that he would get into this whole traveling all the time situation again…which was so not a good thing for our life together lol…but I told him that honestly I was bummed too because I had been a little excited about the whole prospect of moving back to OH…

On the other hand…I feel so at home where we’re at now…I don’t know how to describe it and it probably sounds really corny...I love living in Kentucky and feel like I was born to live in KY…maybe it just brings back nostalgia of family reunion and quieter old times…but when I look at the hillside scenery…the rock walls along the highway…the gorgeous scenery from my front porch….the Amish…the tobacco fields…the small town atmosphere…the southern hospitality…the “Drive Your Tractor To School Day” (for goodness sakes! How perfect is that for us! We move to the one county in the country that has a drive your tractor to school day!)….I just can’t imagine living anywhere else on earth….

That being said, how does one balance where they long to live and the importance of being near family? I’m so torn between wanting to stay here in Kentucky and being closer to my family. The decision having been made, it’s a moot point right now, but I’m sure eventually, we will face this decision again and both of us do miss a lot of the things about living in OH too. Husband always says all his life, any time he’s moved away from OH he’s always come back…so he feels like eventually we’ll go back too…and we both really enjoy spending time with some of his family too…so that’s yet another thing drawing us back up that way eventually.

But I feel at peace that for now anyway, we’re here to stay…I really don’t want husband to go back to the old company if things aren’t better…I just really couldn’t handle going back to the way things were with all the traveling…he’d be gone sometimes for three or four weeks at a time…come home for two days and then have to go away again….it was truly awful…

Anyway….blah blah blah….I guess I should post this and find something to do to kill 45 minutes til time to go home….

Still praying for strength, peace, comfort for Kelley and all the family…

Praying for so many others as well…have a blessed day!