When Cori and I decided to live together, we moved somewhere where my career was (I am a teacher) I changed school and we moved to the middle of nowhere...and by middle of nowhere, i really mean it...it is over an hour drive to get to a target, everything closes at 6pm and nothing is open in Sunday...

it's the prairie
the wind blows all the time...ALL the time

all of our family is at least 4 hours away

really really middle of nowhere and really not any industry

Cori moved there with me because I got the job
he was willing to take whatever job so we could all be together
blending our kids etc
but
there is no industry

at any rate

he left his career so I could have mine

he worked in corrections, had been trying to get on the PD but there weren't any openings etc...much more competitve where he lived,

he worked in a prison when we moved here...about an hour away
not the best job
not what he liked
but he did it
hours sucked, shifts sucked, drive sucked but we were together

he said everything would work for the best and as long as we were all happy he would make it work

he applied in the little town next to us that has a jail..a 12 person max jail

(keep in mind...in his corection job before, he was in charge of like 1500 inmates at a time...the pd was bigger than the population of the town we moved to)

so he applied to work at the Mayberry (not really but basically) jail
they didn't have an opening but he dropped off his stuff, talked to the local sheriff yada yada yada

It didn't take but 2 weeks before they asked him to come and work for them...in a position they created for him, taking the parts of his previous job he liked best (training, SWAT) and wrapping it up into his job description

they are helping him complete all his requirements for his Peace Officer license for this state
they offered him a position upon his completion working for their PD and for the county

it is his dream job

that he never would have had
if he didn't sacrafice to put our needs 1st, our wants ahead of his own
and
i couldn't be more proud of my amazing guy

sometimes life hands us surprised and God answers our prayers in completely wonderfully unexpected way