The little things

Having accepted the job in Borger, TX we now begin the process of working our way through the little things that must happen to make the move work. The physical aspects of such a move are obvious – all our belongings must be moved so they are available to us where we are to resettle. How that will be done I can leave to the professionals at my company.
The problematic issues are many. What church do we attend? Where do we send our mail? What bank do we use at our new location? How do we find new doctors and dentists? What auto insurance company do we use in Texas? Can we find a good school for Chase? Getting our stuff transferred is the least of our worries. Restarting our lives in a new location is the real challenge. But we have done it before and I am certain we will do it again. At least this time it is far less complicated since we have only one child to worry over directly.
Mama has already made some preliminary calls and is beginning to put a plan together and sadly a lot of the “little things” will be left up to her since I will be learning a new job as soon as we arrive. We are using our contacts to find a good church and have already narrowed our search for living quarters – at least for a transition period of three or four months.
It looks like we will be heading to Amarillo, which will leave me an hour commute each way to work ever day. Sadly I am used to that since I have done about that for each job I have ever held – at least since West Virginia. We have always chosen to have Mama and the kids close to the things they need, which would leave me to travel whatever distance is needed to get to work.
I have never minded, but I am getting to the point that I would like to have my work closer to Mama or Mama closer to my work.
Maybe next time.