A New Season of Life

Big news for the Herway family!! Jake received a job offer from Citibank and we have accepted! It is a MBA rotational program for Human Resources. We feel very blessed to have been given this opportunity. Campus recruiting is over, which was making the job search all the more difficult, and frustrating, because he really wanted to utilize his MBA. A friend at church suggested he look into Citi (even though it was a company Jake said he would never work for...but why not) Through networking he contacted the right person who was immediately impressed. The position had already closed but with Jake's investment banking experience, international experience and desire to do HR he was willing to fly him out for an interview and "create" a position for him. Jake is really happy, and really relieved. It's going to be a great start to the career path he wants to take. I'm really proud of him. He has worked extremely hard for this.

So what does this mean? Our world is going to flip upside down. We're starting off in New York City! When Jake first mentioned it I thought, "Yeah right...not going to happen." After all, we already decided 5 years ago (when Jake was interning at Bear Stearns) that New York wasn't the place we wanted to raise our family. That's why we're here in Charlotte. And three kids in NYC?! Crazy! Impossible! But I've gradually come to accept it and am really excited about it. It'll be for one year. You can do anything for just one year, right? And after that we will spend a year somewhere else in the US (TBD) and overseas for 6 months. The job starts July 15, which means the next few months will be a whirlwind as we get our house ready to sell, find a place to live, sell all our stuff, find a new doctor, etc. I really don't even know where to begin.

And of course there's mixed emotions with all of this. My heart strings are already breaking. It's going to be extremely hard to leave Charlotte. I told Jake, before we accepted, that he's going to have to expect tears. I have LOVED living here, I love my house, and we have so many memories here. We have a great ward, wonderful friends, and hard to beat weather! (I've been to NYC in February and I don't think I've ever been so cold in my life!) But CHANGE is what life is all about, and we've been prepared for it.



These are pictures taken last Monday on a street that runs just off of ours. I look forward to these blossoms every year! Bing! (There goes the first heart string)