This week, by contrast to my last entry, has seemed very unproductive. I guess i need to look at it all in perspective too.

Jonathan's work situation has been quite a roller coaster, and i'm not sure i should share all the details here, but i'll try to summarize anyway.

He was trying out the new (welding) job for a few days already, and planning to make a decision by last week Friday. His boss at the farm knew he was welding part-time, but Jonathan hadn't clarified he was "trying out" for a new job. Part way through the week, we heard that the other key employee had given his notice to leave by the end of December. We had no idea he was planning to leave, so it really complicated the idea of Jonathan giving his notice too... but eventually Jonathan did need to let them know and it didn't go over very well. Fortunately Jonathan & the junior boss (it's a father-son team) were able to talk things out so that there shouldn't be any hard feelings between them... but i'm not sure what the senior boss is thinking (or his wife). Of course part of it will be "my fault" for wanting him home more. Apparently though, they gave Jonathan a raise last month. They don't say anything, and it's not clear on the pay stub, so we didn't notice. And to encourage him to stay, they talked about another raise in January.

Jonathan has been agonizing over this decision (all the way through really, but again when the farm is willing to increase his pay to keep him ~ why couldn't they do that a LONG time ago?? ~ they've said they can't afford to pay more). But he's talking like he's still leaning toward taking the welding job. I think he's a bit stung by the fact that people starting after him have been getting paid more than him ~ how do you feel training someone who's getting paid more than you? (altho he didn't know that at the time) and maybe some other issues too. But I'm leaving the decision totally up to Jonathan! The big thing for me was getting paid enough to "get by" with a normal 40-hr week... and i guess starting off, the welding job might not be quite enough, but with time it should work out. The added bonus of having evenings (early evenings!) and weekends off, stat holidays, some kind of health benefits, etc. are whip cream on the cake.

Adoption ~ our next homestudy visit is on Monday. I'm looking forward to it. One step closer...
I guess i still have a few questions to answer on my personal info/history forms, and Jonathan has several pages to do yet ~ lol ~ but he's got the weekend off, so hopefully we'll get those done then.