Life-part 1

***Disclaimer: This post is labeled part 1 because it ended WAY different than I planned. It was supposed to be about how I have spring fever. But instead was a big delve into my past year. so perhaps tomorrow part 2 will come out how I planned!***

Now back to regular programming

Nothing about Jon and I's relationship and life together has been too terribly drawn out and slow. We trust each the other person's judgment and support of our "team" that we tend to make really sudden decisions. That's just how we roll.

Eleven months ago we made a spontaneous decision one evening. Jon had just started a new job in the city which was a 15 minute drive away from the really small town we lived in. I worked in one of the college's buildings which was a 5 minute walk from our house. We were in the process of getting a mortgage. We jumped way higher than any of the hoops they asked of us. But for some reason the person ok-ing it lived two provinces away and had no understanding of the housing market where we lived. That combined with the fact that our friends were giving us a great deal on the place meant the mortgage was taking longer than expected.

Jon needed the car everyday to drive the 15 minutes to work; we'd been having an off and on problem with it for several months and had been trying to get it fixed. It always came back with a clean bill of health yet the problem was still happening sporadically. We poured more and more money into it and no matter what mechanic we tried no one could fix it and the problem was getting much worse. We ended up having to rent a car for a month while we tried to get our car drivable again. We looked at getting a car in with my credit as Jon's was in the middle of getting a mortgage but with all my student loans they said not likely without a co-signer... *le sigh*

All that sort of built up and built up. We were getting drained financially, emotionally, and physically. At that time I worked +35 hours a week and Jon worked minimum 70 hour weeks! And there were times we didn't see each other all week. Literally. My mom decided I needed a break and bought me a plane ticket to meet my sisters one province over on a road trip to find one of them a grad dress. I remembered how great it was to have family to hang out with. I got back to Saskatchewan and we decided that something had to change. Within the night we had made up our mind to call it (life there)  quits and pack everything up. We were moving to BC. Ok so we didn't just come up with that idea. We had talked about it for the past couple months and my mom had suggested we move back and stay with her. So we decided it was for the best.

My mom at that time was working two jobs and had a really busy social life so she wasn't home a lot to deal with my 14-year old brother. He was having some difficulties at school but wouldn't talk about it. He'd asked for the past year and a half if he could move in with us and start a new school or have me home school him, so we knew something was up. Anyways, my mom asked if we would move in to her house for at least a year or two and help out. She removed my brother from school and I've been assisting with his online homeschooling.

Anyways, wow this was not where this post was supposed to go when I started typing. Guess that post will be for tomorrow. But now you know the background of our living arrangement. It makes life interesting!