Life is a Rollercoaster

Okay not really, because I don't care for them much. However, I do firmly believe that we are definitely not in control of our life and every once in a while I get a gentle (sometimes hard) reminder of that fact. A few weeks ago my husband and I had a crisis arise. It was in fact, a big one! Matthew came home one night tell me a story about rumors floating around his office about a possible sell of his office. As some of you know, Matthew is an office administrator/receptionist for a corporate branch of Coldwell Banker. He has actually been working for them about 7 1/2 years the first 2 as an licensed agent the remaining time as office staff. Well, eventually the rumor proved to be true. An affiliate/franchisee had sent a proposal to the corporate offices about purchasing the Yorba Linda office. It apparently caught the right person's attention because next thing you know there were a series of meetings and phone calls about the purchase. In the end, the sell of the office fell threw; however, this didn't stop the powers that be from deciding to close the office all together. As you can imagine, Matthew and I waited on pins and needles ever so patiently (NOT!) to see what was to become of Matthew. Several of the agents began looking elsewhere, speculating and creating additional chaos that it did not help Matthew and I in our nerves. The President of Coldwell Banker, finally scheduled a meeting at Matthew's office to discuss with the staff and agents what had transpired over the previous week and what the final outcome was to be. In this case, the office was in fact still closing and the agents were being given the opportunity to transfer to the Tustin office along with Joe and his staff. Yeah! We were going to be okay, Matthew would still have a job and would transfer to the Tustin office. Actually this was good news for us in that it would be closer to our home and we could take advantage of carpooling a few days a week to save some money! The other good thing is that Matthew would be able to move forward with some of his real estate plans that were finally falling into place with a couple of the agents in the office. All in all we were pretty happy and knew that we had dodged a major bullet! We even celebrated at our friend's on the 4th (albeit a bit too much maybe...) but we were very content.



Fast forward to yesterday...



It would appear that my husband will actually not be transferring to Tustin as we believed and is in fact without a job as of the 18th of July! Apparently the individual at the Tustin office who holds the same position as Matthew has seniority and therefore is going to retain her job! Imagine my shock, surprise, hurt and confusion! What the heck just happened?? How could this happen? The President of Coldwell Banker firmly told the agents a couple of weeks before that Joe and his staff would be taken care of and would transfer to Tustin?? I don't believe there is ever a time that one can be prepared for this type of situation. And I will be honest that I was more prepared for it two weeks ago and I was yesterday! The HR gal was nice enough to mention to Matthew that he was eligible to apply for 3 openings in the corporate office but there was not a guarantee he would be hired! Again I say WHAT! I know that he will at least pursue them but at this stage we are not putting all of our eggs in one basket and will be looking at all options. He does have an interview for one of the openings on Friday morning and it is the best option of the 3 so we hope it will work out but won't know for sure at least for a few more days!


I will be honest, this is a very scary time for us. The prospect of not having the second income for awhile it a bit more daunting than I can handle right now! So your prayers are welcome! Job leads are also welcome! As is Money! Matthew's first reaction has been to sell everything we can on Craigslist. I told him to wait! It also doesn't help the fact that we just planned a Hawaiian trip that we can't cancel because we won't get our money back.

In the end, I know that this is totally in God's hands and he will provide; it is just hard to give up that control! But as I said we really aren't in control now are we!!