Enter New Zealand

Another one of those life defining moments came on February 19th, 2010 . I can clearly remember the moment. Both Patrick and I were sitting on the couch and it was evening. We both had our lap tops out. The tv was on in the background but neither of us was really watching it. I can’t tell you what I was working on but I clearly remember the moment my husband looked up and turned to me and said, “I just applied for a job in New Zealand.” In my ever so eloquent way, I replied, “huh”. I know, it must me a throw back to our cave man roots. Just a simple shrug of the shoulders “huh” as in no big deal, so what, that happens everyday way.
Patrick will of course laugh at me, but I swear I felt peaceful when he said it. Not scared or excited. Just safe. I just felt like everything was going to be alright.
Fast forward to Friday, March 4th. Patrick had been out of town on a job interview and was on his way back home to Idaho Falls. I had been teaching a Broker Management class all week. On Fridays we test and I have to grade each test and hand out certificates. (No one ever fails my class!) So at the end of the day on Friday I had started the students testing. My blackberry was set to silent and sitting on the desk. My screen lit up with Patrick’s picture. I let it go to voice mail since I could not answer it in a silent room full of nervous test takers. But it lit up again. And again. It was becoming apparent that something was up. Some of the students had started to finish the test by now and were coming up to my desk to have their tests graded.
I was beginning to worry so I grabbed the phone and tucked it to my ear and worriedly whispered “what’s up?” trying to be as quiet as I could while grading a test at the same time. Patrick on the other end was doing his version of extreme excitement ie: voice ever so slightly more animated than usual. (Full range of emotions ranging from exuberance to tears are reserved for me. Patrick’s range is silent smile to slight annoyance.)
He announced to me that he had just received a call from New Zealand and they wanted to interview him for the job he had applied for! Enter me with yet another eloquent reply. I said “you are lying”