Tough Decisions

Many of you know I had mentioned the possibility of moving back to St. Louis a couple months ago. That fell through, but a couple of weeks ago, a new opportunity presented itself. Scott is on his way this afternoon to Chicago for an interview tomorrow with Wirtz Distributors (a similar distributor to where he currently works). It is for a position managing central Illinois. It would be a big promotion (currently he has no managers reporting to him just salesmen, but at the new position he will have 4 managers reporting to him). His office would be out of Peoria. He would be one of the head managers there, but would report to his manager in Chicago about once a month. This is not at all where we thought we would be headed next. I'm not jumping for joy to move to Peoria, but if all things go well with the interview and they make a fair offer I believe we will be going. It's a good move for Scott, but it's not exactly what I had hoped for our us moving closer to our family (with the exception of my brother everyone in my family lives within 90 miles of St. Louis).

I hate the thought of selling our house. I really love my house here in Columbia, and we finally have it about the way we want it. As we've looked at homes in Peoria, we haven't really seen anything comparable to what we have, and I've read lots of scary stuff about the sketchiness of most areas in Peoria. There are just so many unknowns about moving to a new area. You would think I'd be good at moving being a Navy BRAT, but I HATE moving. So I have all these negative feelings about moving, but I want Scott to be able to take the next step in his career. I'll keep everyone posted as we gather more information about this probable move. Sniff, sniff.