Good news everyone! BM2 works for the big consulting firm DH interviewed for in an HR-type role. She checked in the system and his status had been changed to pending offer!!!! She texted us so excited. As much as a PITA she was during court to lower child support, she's been much nicer since. I think seeing DH sit on the stand and have every dime he has spent scrutinized in the last 2 years made her realized he isn't lying....he has had no income coming in and we really are just spending what little savings we have almost entirely on child support.

Anyway, the consulting firm emailed him yesterday

"Hi CBCharlotte's DH,

I am following up because the conversations you had with {NYC managing director) and S{NYC Managing Director Counterpart} were positive, and we (me and our Financial Services hiring lead) would like to move the process forward and discuss next steps with you. What is your availability over the next few days? Please let me know and we will schedule a call. Looking forward to hearing from you soon."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That means verbal offer and start the negotiation process! HALLELUIAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He had an amazing first round interview with a regional bank here and funny enough was more excited for that role than the consulting role. He is calling the bank today and telling them he has an offer pending to see if they want to speed up the process and meet again to make him an offer. However, if they can't do that, he will be taking the consulting job. When it rains it pours. I will keep you all updated once he gets the actual offer, we are hoping it is pretty good. The job will have him traveling 70% of the time, primarily in the northeast. We are in Philly, and they have a lot of clients in Philly, Wilmington (about 40 mins drive) or NYC (easy train ride) so he will likely spend most of his time around here, we hope. The bank job would be a 35-45 minute commute each way to New Jersey.

I am so happy I could cry. June 10th would be 2 years since DH got laid off, and it has been a ton of stress on my shoulders. As many of you know, the years have been challenging.....moving states, not-as-successful-as-we'd-hoped CS modification, my grandfather's death, DH heart attack..... we could desperately use a break. Thanks all for the kind words over the years.