A while (a couple of hours) later he calls me laughing.  The first thing I thought– oh, he WAS right. They’re headed home. Well, turns out he was right, but not yet. He called laughing because “something happened in the bathroom and sewage is overflowing. Oh, and that means everyone is piled in half of the airport AND IT SMELLS!”  LOL! At least he and his teammates were able to laugh about it!

While we were still on the phone, Kevin got word that they were leaving the airport and would have to take a flight today.

On the flip side, during today’s call he revealed that they are staying in a really nice hotel again, and that the team is treating the guys well…at least compared to other teams in other years, so that is a complete and total blessing. On the other hand, he also said that they have to treat the guys that way, because otherwise no one would go to the middle of nowhere to play for this team. Touche. Touche. I’ll still take it!

It’ll take me a few weeks to get my groove back, so I spent today doing a few little things in order to free up some time to spend with The Boy and preparing for my own commitments.

I’ll let you all know how his trip goes.

I am perfectly content in my 1500 square foot home, if only it were closer to The Boy’s school! Anyway. If you want to see the listing for our house, shoot me an email at thejohnsonfamilyupdate@gmail.com, and I’ll happily send it to you.

Meanwhile, tomorrow morning we will visit a few homes to figure out exactly how big the square footage is.  2000. 2500. 3000– these are all just numbers to me. What do these numbers look like? I have NO idea. None.  So tomorrow we will hit up three homes, three sizes, in three different neighborhoods to try to narrow down what we specifically are looking for and do it before Kevin leaves, so I’m not making a decision 100% on my own.

That’s about all I got…for now anyway.

I came home for Labor Day weekend only to bail on returning to DC. Well, not exactly. The Boy was ready and needing for me to be home, and my supervisor in DC was willing to allow me to work for her from Tulsa. When I was going to return for a meeting, she encouraged me to call in instead of flying in for the meeting.  Times like that remind me not only how lucky I am to have a job, but to have one that values families and encourages employees to have a life outside of the office. No one complains when I show The Boy where I work (in DC or Tulsa). No one complains when I must take off due to The Boy being ill (especially when Kevin is out of the country). No one complains when I want to take a few days off, as long as I don’t have a deadline looming.

Anyway…

I spent September working for Headquarters and transitioning back to project work. My work is looking a lot different these days as I learn a new role (for me) in the Corps. I am still helping out the economists (a new one started today! Woo hoo!!!), but also doing some study management work, which is really challenging and exciting for me.

Then October came… and we’ve spent the past week or so preparing our house to go on the market. Yes, we’re selling so a buyer can take advantage of the first time homebuyer credit. At the same time, we’re in no rush, so if the offer is not right, we’re willing to take the house off the market in November or December and do this for real in the spring.

Kevin has a contract. He’s going back to the same country– different team. On one hand, I’m disappointed, because I would really like for him to go somewhere easier for us to visit. On the other hand, in these uncertain economic times (yes, even in basketball), he has a paying job without a drastic paycut. And yes, many of our friends are playing for a small fraction of what they were paid as little as 12 months ago, if they are able to get a job at all. Trying times for many basketball families.

That’s about all we have going on right now. More to come, I am sure.