Job Hunting

This past year has been quite interesting for the Wildberger family. In January the shop where Caleb worked closed. He decided to join the Army, and after going back and forth through the process, it was discovered that with the economy, it isn't as easy to get into the military as before. Since he had a level 3 waiver, they wouldn't accept him until entry into the Army slows. By what we have been told, that probably won't happen until the economy gets better. This wasn't discovered until late May. So 5 months were waisted, but valuable life lessions were learned. In June Kendra was laid off from her job due to the economy. At that point we decided that moving was our only option. Sierra Vista is a beautiful place to live, but our career paths don't fit the job openings this town offers. After throwing around a few ideas, we have decided on going back to Phoenix. Kendra has gone on a few interviews, but nothing promising as of yet. She has put in quite a few resumes to places and she is getting a lot of response, so we are hoping it isn't long. Caleb has put in a few resumes, but there isn't as much in Phoenix for auto body as was before. The economy has done its number on that field as well. We are hoping to be in Phoenix by mid August as Caleb is wanting to enroll in the EMT courses offered by colleges in the Phoenix valley. Most of them start around that time and go until the beginning of December. Upon completion of the course, he is hoping to get a job with as an EMT. Then he will go through the rigorous application process to become a Phoenix firefighter.

Janessa will be starting school in Sierra Vista since we won't be moved to Phoenix until after the school year has started. School starts for her on August 5th at the Charter school. She is going into the 1st grade. We have been working with her for the past few weeks on reading and math. She is doing alright in reading, but excellent in math. I know they won't be teaching math for quite some time, but she already knows addition and subtraction very well. We bought her some workbooks in Target the other day and she is just about all done with the math ones. Once she completes them, we will get her the 2nd grade math books and see if she can do that. She's like her mom and loves numbers. We might have a future accountant on our hands! We have been trying to teach her to ride her bike without the training wheels, but that isn't going so well. But it takes some time to get used to balancing since she is still so used to the training wheels doing that for her.