Movin’ On

Some of you may already know this, but with the number of remarks I have been getting about going back to Turkey, I figured I would say something about it here.  For next season, we are not headed back to Bandirma.  We found out about a month ago from Joe’s agent, that Banvit was opting not to fulfill the contract he had signed back in December for the 2009-2010 season.  It didn’t come as a huge surprise, since they had signed a new coach for next season and some rules in the Turkish league were going to be different.  I don’t think either of us was hugely disappointed.  Of course, we will miss our friends there and it is always easy to go back to a place you know, where an apartment is already set-up and the kids’ have a preschool.  But last season was one of the toughest in our 7 year marriage, for various reasons.  So part of me felt relief to be starting off somewhere else fresh.

So now we are back to the drawing board, so to speak.  Joe’s agent is negotiating a settlement with Banvit and also looking for a new team for next season.  This is just par for the course in the life of a basket wife, and in a way was encouraging.  In the past, a situation like this may have thrown me for a bigger loop.  But when we found out, I really wasn’t too flustered, which was encouraging to me to see that God has been at work in my heart to make my trust in him, and not in Joe’s job situation.