Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Brace yourself...this is a long one!

I may have posted our Home Sweet Home post too soon. We had decided on Tuesday to come home because after Tom finishes school the end of May, we will no longer be provided with a car and we need to move out of the house we rent through the basketball team by August. So after finding all this out we assumed the best option for us would be to come home since we didn't think we'd be able to rent a house or get a car because we don't have credit established here in England (we tried to rent another place after a couple months of being here, but were unsuccessful because they wanted us to pay 6 months rent up front and we didn't want to do that in case we needed that money to fall back on).

So, Tom went into work on Wednesday to let them know that we were planning on heading back to the States. He was planning on quitting that day so that he can focus this next month on his studies so that he can make sure to pass his classes since he won't be able to retake any of the classes next year since he won't be playing basketball.

He ended up taking on a full schedule of classes, even though he didn't have to because he'd be able to take classes next year, and also because the plan was for him to continue playing basketball next year. He's glad he did that because he'll be able to get his Master's Degree this year, as long as he passes all his classes.

Anyway, after he told the company he works for about our plan to head home next month, they asked him what they could do for him so that we would be able to stay. We didn't anticipate this since he just started working there the first week in April. So, he was told to go home and talk to me and come back Friday and let them know what it would take.

So we talked and thought we'd like to see what they could do for us because we've enjoyed living here for the most part (basketball season was long and stressful!). We also haven't felt we've been able to enjoy seeing different parts of England or neighboring countries because of basketball, school, work, etc. But is this enough to stay? We are so far away from our family!

Tom went in and let them know that we won't be able to get a house or vehicle on our own and that we don't have any furniture and that they'd need to up his salary a little so that we can afford a better place to live and a car to get us around. They felt like that would be easy enough to fix, and they'd be willing to figure something out because they see Tom being able to bring in a lot of money for the company to make it worth it. The owners of the company are going to come up with a plan and get back to Tom early next week.

So, now it's a waiting game and a lot of praying! We have that to consider and yesterday Tom was told he could return to his old job back in Boise, which he loved. We both really feel deep down that we'll return to Boise. We really love it there and we have great friends in the area and our families aren't too far away either. Too bad we sold our house!! Oh well, we needed that money to be able to get through these last 8 months. Thank goodness we stored our BIG American refrigerator though. (Note to self: post pictures of the appliances we use here in England.)

Sorry that this post is so lengthy. I get wordy in the wee hours of the morning and a little off track too. Probably because my thinker is so exhausted!