BIG News and Updates.

~Gianna had her first expansion surgery on Wednesday at Shriners. It honestly never will EVER get easier to watch your sobbing baby be carried into the O.R. We had not told her she was having surgery, and she was as happy as a lark playing in the PACU until I told her that the Dr. needed her to take a nap so that he could fix her back. She looked up at me with huge tears, and then just sobbed gut wrenching sobs. How can she know? It was very traumatic for this mommy.

~The wonderful news is, that after 24 hours she is difficult to slow down. She tried to hop and dance on her way to xray, and she is recovering MUCH faster than we ever expected! We are so thankful for all our sweet family and friends for their prayers for our baby girl. Keeping her down with her restrictions over the next 4 weeks of recovery should be interesting, but I wouldn't want it any other way!

~We left the hospital yesterday for a little R&R at Grandmommy and Papa's house. We were planning to stay until Sunday the 25th because my little sister is running in the Marine Corp Marathon, and we couldn't be prouder of her! I wanted to be cheering her on each and every single step of the way, and have "her girls" waiting for her to cross the finish line.

~Our plan unfortunately had to change due to Greg's job. And this is where things get interesting......

~A company called Greg asking him to interview for a job on recommendation from their customer that they hire him. He thought he was interviewing for one position, but in turn they wanted him to interview for a position which would be a huge promotion for his career.

We were humbled.

~Everything was progressing along nicely, and then he received one of those life-changing phone calls...." We'd like to extend you an offer for this position. Did we mention that the executives must live in Tampa?" Ahem, did you say TAMPA? As in.... FLORIDA? You want us to MOVE to stinking hot, humid TAMPA???? ( No offense to any Floridians out there. Really.)

Leave my sons, my family,my friends, our church family, and my home???

Apparently the answer is yes to all of the above.

~So, after days of prayers, discussing it with the boys, calling our close friends and asking them to pray with us, and lots more prayer,and a few "Not my will, but Your will be done" prayers,we are indeed moving to Tampa. And leaving my sons, and all we know and love in Atlanta.

Sigh.

Oh, and to make things just-that-more fun-they need him there ASAP.

As in....Right away.

(Which means October 26th to you and me.)

Did I mention my daughter had surgery on October 14th????

Apparently not.

~And to make things just a bit more hectic, on the way to admitting our daughter to the hospital, he had to call his current employer and give the perfunctory two weeks notice. They were not so happy, and decided to make it difficult. They demanded two and a half weeks notice instead of two, and Oh, by-the-way, we expect you to continue to travel for those two weeks and close business because we don't want you to just transition your work load, we want to SUCK THE LIFE right out of you on your way out the door.

Did I mention my daughter JUST HAD SURGERY???

Apparently yes, but they just don't care.

~We had to change our flights to come home early next week, so Greg can honor their demands to the best of his ability. We will miss my sister's marathon which devastates me to the core. I will have 3 days to begin the arduous task of packing our worldly goods, and then we will head to Tampa to house hunt for the weekend.

So yeah, we pretty much have nothing going on. How are you?