Moving, and babies, and friends... Oh my!

Ok, we’ve decided to move now. Hehe, it’s always something with us huh? The two job offers I got weren’t that thrilling to me, either way I go I’m gonna hate the schedule they give me so me and Sean decided that if I decide to take one of them, it’s gong to be for as short of a period as possible. I say "if" because I’m also trying some temp agencies to see if they can give me anything for a month or so.
We’ve decided to move at the end of November to Mt. Sterling. Sean already pretty much has a job up there, and I shouldn’t have too much trouble finding something. I’ve already worked it out with Shannon that we are gonna stay with her for a little while just until we get established. I’m really excited about it, we’ve been wanting to move to the country for a long long time now, I just hope Mik adjusts and everything alright. She’s still young though and I’m sure she’d adjust at this point to pretty much anything we did as long as she knew she still has us you know. I know she’ll miss her daycare, but she’ll make friends in her new daycare up there, and she’s already got friends outside of daycare down there, as do we. My grandma made the comment that I’m the only grandkid of hers that has always been there for her and she’s afraid that if I move away, me and her won’t be as close as we are now. Well, I see my grandma maybe once or twice a month and I live in the same city as her, so I think that we’ll just have to make it a point to make sure we come to visit about every other month or so. That way Mik gets to see her still and I get to spend time with her still.My grandma may have just recently had a mild stroke, and she knows it but she didn’t go to the doctor so I think that she’s thinking that she wont be around forever and doesn’t want to lose the closeness that her and I have always had, so I’m going to do everything in my power to see to it that she never feels lonely without me. Mikayla is also the only one of her grandkids that she sees on a regular basis, but with us moving by my cousin who is also having a baby, we can make sure now that BOTH the kiddos get to have a great relationship with their great grandma.
Speaking of Shannon, she called me at work today and said that she went into labor last night. She noticed some bleeding so she went to the hospital, and by this morning she was starting to thin out and she dialated to 1 cm. They have pretty much stopped the labor but she’s still thinning so it’s only a matter of time really before she has her baby. The doctors are giving her steroids and everything to strenghthen the baby’s lungs in hopes that everything will be developed enough for little Danika to be alright if she is born this early.She’s still got about 8 weeks left before she’s full term, so everyone pray for Shannon, Adam, and little Dani tonight that the labor stops and she holds off for at least another 3 or 4 weeks, everything should be all good by then.
It is kind of a tough decision to move, and kind of an easy decision to move. I’m going to miss all my friends just stopping by at night like they do, and I’m going to miss just getting together on a whim like we do, but at the same time, I think this move is better for Mikayla. Everyone we know down there has kids, and Mik’s met all of them, so she already has friends down there. And in my eyes, it’s more important for her to make friends and have interaction outside of daycare then it is for me to have someone to hangout with. I’m an adult, I can maintain my friendships with no problems, and need to think about Mikayla. I’m worried that my friends won’t want to come visit us as much as we’ll visit them because they are all not country folk but I’m hoping that they will come visit us despite that fact. I’m really going to miss Seans brother Billy, but on that note, he’s going to join the Marines in May anyway so we’ll stop seeing him soon regardless, and I know that our house will be his house when he gets leave or whatever so I know we’ll see him. I guess I just need reassurance that us moving isn’t going to change the friendships that we have with everyone. Amanda, mark, Josh, Deena, and Candace are my world. I couldn’t survivie without them, and I know they feel the same about me, and I might be just a tad bit jealous thinking that Deena is going to replace me as mandas best friend, BUT, this isn’t the first time I’ve moved out of town and me and manda maintained exactly what we’ve always had, we just did it on paper instead. That was Arkansas though, this is still Kentucky. Ark. Was 8 hours away, Mt. Sterling is 1.5 );

My plan actually, is to visit as much as possible of course, but I want to set it up to where we come in every 6 weeks or so definite, if not for anythingelse other than to visit grandma and mom until mom moves with us. I love my friends more than most anything, and I pray that this works out like it is in my head.