What a crazy week this has been. It started off with a really odd situation at my husband’s workplace. I won’t go into details, but it left both of us scratching our heads trying to figure out what was going on. Well, that got answered yesterday when my husband got called into HR and was informed he was being laid off. Here’s your severance package, have a nice day. Fabulous.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, he was almost laid off from the same company two weeks before Daphne was born. I have never seen a company play so fast and loose with their employees. And this is a large company with divisions all over the world, not some small local place. There were quite a few layoffs last year (including entire departments) and I think HR took pity on us with the impending birth and tried their best to find him another position in a different area. This time he wasn’t so lucky.

Honestly, our first response is to pack up and get out of Alabama. We’d put the house up on the market and hope for the best. In the meantime my husband could work for my father (so we could have health insurance and a little $$ to move) until he could find something in his field. I never liked living in Alabama really. I’m totally ready to go to Houston. The house thing does stress me out, but you never know, maybe we will get lucky and find a buyer quickly.

So, we have a lot of decisions to make. And surprisingly I’m not freaking out. I’ve mellowed big time since having Daphne. As long as we are all healthy who cares about the rest. It will all work out.