The Good News Keeps Rolling In!

As if a healthy pregnancy wasn't good enough news for us, Matt received awesome news yesterday that the job he applied for at the library was his!! He had his first interview last week and was asked back for the second on Tuesday and they wanted him so he found out yesterday, so it was a fast decision.

Some background: about a month ago his current company did big time layoffs/shutting down divisions etc, luckily he wasn't effected and was told he was safe, but really for how long is what we were saying since he was now the last one hired after they got rid of the editor they hired after Matt. So the same day that the layoffs happened, Matt went to his part time job at the library and was called into his boss's office (you can imagine what he was thinking) So she tells Matt that she is taking a new position at the library and that Matt is her first recommendation to take over her job. To say the least Matt was a little shocked that this all happened on the same day. He was walking around this the same expression that he has whenever I tell him I am pregnant haha.

Matt had been talking about trying to get into a library career which is hard to do without a Masters in Library Science. Well this was his in and now with this job opportunity he will be able to go back to school with tuition reimbursement and get his Masters which will hopefully lead to moving up in the library world. This job was such a blessing to us both. He will be making so much more than at his previous job, enough that he will only be working 1 job now!!! With baby #2 on the way we couldn't have gotten better news. To put it in perspective, Matt would have had to work at his current job 8 years (assuming they are giving raises each year which they didn't last year and most likely this year) to be making what he is now going to be making at just one job. Oh and he gets another week of vacation, so now he has 3 weeks each year instead of 2 which is also awesome with the baby coming. He will be able to get into the IMRF, which is great for retirement, he is somewhere now that he could stay forever and move up and all that kind of stuff. I am so proud of him, getting this job was big time and of course he did it, because he is great at everything he does.

So Matt will now be the manager of the biggest department at the library (circulation), he even gets his OWN office, good bye cubical life haha. This job will offer so much more stability. As the economy gets worse, the libraries are booming, it's really a recession proof job and after going through two rounds of layoff's at his old company (both while I have been pregnant just to add to the stress) he is ready for something more stable. I just can't say enough what a blessing this is to our family.

So congrats to my wonderful husband for always doing his best to support our family. I know you will do awesome in your new career.

Life is good right now, and we are way over due for good.