lay off season is upon us!!

hear me out! i know this isn't normally something people get excited for...however my husband and i spend months apart (okay, technically it's just the weeks, he's home on weekends) during the "road construction" season in minnesota. well...we are going from road construction season right into winter! it took ryan over an hour to get his equipment started yesterday morning...he was NOT a happy camper!

well ryan found out today after work that they are done.....in paynesville. he was in celebration mode! he was super-duper excited....then he turns around to see his foreman, who wants him in virginia on monday morning....cheese and rice!!! 

so in the morning we will get up, get ready, and go clean his apartment...he's been renting an apartment there for the summer (waaay cheaper than a  hotel room), anyways, he has everything mostly packed besides the tv, his blow-up bed, and a table....and we need to bring the vaccuum and tidy it up a bit. hopefully we won't have to pay decembers rent!! that'd be a nice treat!

so...now he's in virginia....who knows how long (cuz you know...no one can give warning of any kind...i mean they found out today at 5pm they were done for the year, this happens every year). ryan's hope is he'll be back on his hoe....oh, how he's missed his hoe this year! remember, no pre-planning though...so he won't know what he's running until monday...at 6:45am, that's how they roll...

so, this was the day ryan was almost layed off (which i understand most people fear the thought of this, and respect this completely...however this has been the norm for us for the past 7 years already...we wait for lay off, then we wait for work to start...it's the cycle! we've learned exactly how much money to put away...and have passed our goal this year! we've NEVER been savers, but when you get all your money in the summer, and don't work in the winter...it only takes one year for you to learn what you need to have saved!!) sorry, off on a tangent there...

again, this was the day ryan was almost layed off....but here we go again! haha! hopefully only a week or two more!

XOXO,

Erinn