Interview Time!!

We are cresting our hill!! (Flashback to the roller coaster post....)

We received the call we've been waiting for since we began this journey... The famous spousal interviews at CFA home office are within reach!

The spousal interview is the final step before CFA offers you your own store. According to friends that just received stores, if you've been called for spousal interviews it's safe to say the store is yours! But.... Even though we've heard that over and over, it won't be real to us until we're sitting in the office at the end of a long day of interviews/meetings/etc Friday afternoon (the 20th), and we receive the official offer. I just can't accept what everyone is telling us.

In my previous post, I wrote about trying to find the perfect outfit to wear on Friday for interviews. Most of you may not realize that I've never really had to go through professional interviews. I have had jobs before; I consider one of them a somewhat professional job. I was a teacher in a daycare. My other "professional job" was when I was interviewed/selected as children's minister at our old church. Those were pretty much the most formal interviews I've ever been to. Nothing as dramatic as this! You can read about my shopping woes, desperately searching for the right outfit, here. I finally found an outfit that I feel is appropriate but one that will make me feel comfortable and more like myself!

The outfit may seem trivial to you, but it was a big deal to me for some reason! Not really sure why, but it was.

I've also been working through some of the questions they could ask me during the interviews. Our friends who have traveled this road before us have told me some of the things they've been asked. Mainly I've been working on speaking through Ian's strengths and weaknesses, as well as why I think he'll make a good operator. Before our visit to EC, I think I would have struggled through questions about whether or not I could live happily there. But now, there are no doubts in mind, and I look forward to them asking me any questions about EC because I can't wait to talk about it!

So. I'm preparing myself for one of the most important days of our lives...trying not to worry, but trust in the Lord who has brought us so far already! Praying that He will guide me through what to say, give me the words and keep me from getting tongue-tied! Also praying that I will be able to be comfortable in my own skin and not be clammy around so many professionals. Everyone we have ever met through CFA has been so wonderful and down-to-earth though, so I don't think I will have issues with this. We are really looking forward to just having a firm future for a change! It will be nice... :)