Our new home!

Our beautiful room at the McNutt House Bed & Breakfast!
Our new rental home!

We had a good trip to Arkadelphia over the weekend! Micah did very well in the car, as long as we made stop whenever he wasn't napping so he could let off some steam. After arriving on Sunday afternoon, we met with one of Dan's fellow professors at OBU, saw his new office and net with some other member of the theatre faculty who were hanging out there. (They had had a storm that weekend and the power was out in some people's homes so they were enjoying the AC at the school.) We then checked into the McNutt House Bed & Breakfast, which I will now shamelessly plug :-) It was a new house, just opened in January of this year with a modern Tuscan feel. The decor was definately professionally done and it was beautiful throughout. The room was quiet (well, until Micah took over!), spacious and comfortable, as you can see in the photo above. Juanita, the owner, was so sweet allowing an infant to stay at the house since there were no other guests. As you might have guessed that's not something that's usually done at B&B's! She even allowed us to store Micah's baby food jars in the minifridge upstairs and washed out his bottles before we left and generally fussed over Micah like he was her own grandchild! He sister and she cooked us two delicious breakfasts while we were there. Suffice to say, I highly recommend it. For $88 a night--you can't beat it. There are several nice B&B's in the town. Ok, done with the plugging!

I had my interview Monday morning at Henderson State University and I felt I had done my best and made a positive impression on the search committee and other people I met with, despite the fact that I did catch Dan's and Micah's cold! I'll keep you posted when I hear something.

The rest of the day we spent looking at houses to rent. We were disappointed my the poor quality and lack of cleanliness in most of what we saw. We were starting to get discouraged. We went by Micah's new daycare and got him signed up. There will be three other boys in his crawlers room to play with! We were generally pleased with the facility, which is in a church and has a large, fenced-in outdoor play area with lots of toys! The director, AJ, was very nice and immediately picked Micah up and showed him the ropes. That evening, we had a cookout at one of the OBU professor's houses with all the theatre faculty and their families. We had a really great time talking with everyone, eating good food, watching the older kids splash in the pool and watching the babies do their cute thing.

The next day we looked at more houses--we had three more appointments. The first one we agreed was doable, but we weren't excited about it. It was a much larger house than we needed and was heavily wooded, something we wanted to avoid due to bugs and our spider experience here. The next house was a cute 2 bed, 1 bath in town with wonderful landlords who carried Micah around and entertained him while we looked at the house. It was small, but well-maintained and we thought it might work if we couldn't find anything better. Our third appointment was something I found out about in my job interview. It was a home that a HSU professor was vacating. We managed to locate the landlord and talk with her about seeing it. Well, you can't beat the location. Apparently, when we told the professors about the place, they said it was a very good part of town and the prof whose house we were eating at had lived right next door and raised their kids there for 16 yrs! Now a state trooper lives there. It's two blocks from Micah's daycare and has 3 beds, 2 bathrooms and a large fenced-in backyard shaded by trees and backed up to a field. We signed the lease after walking through it several times and feel blessed to have found it. I posted a picture above but will not be posting the address for safety reasons. If you would like it, please e-mail me and I'll be happy to send it to you! We then got in the car and drove home to Corinth. That's our adventure! Thanks to all who prayed for us and sent us good wishes. Now we have to get through our big garage sale tomorrow and Saturday. Wish us luck!