I can't believe that school is going to start next week!!!! It's crazy to think that I will have a Kindergartner this year!!! My boys are growing up way too fast for my liking! Next year I won't have anyone home at all! While it's a little bittersweet, I want to enjoy watching my Kindergartner spread his wings a little this year and watch him get excited about all of the cool things he's going to get to do. It's an exciting time at our house.
My middle child is 8 today. We are slowly inching our way towards middle age and our children are becoming more independent. It's a new phase in our family and I'm excited for it. What a wonderful blessing it is to watch my children become fabulous young adults. They are stellar young men if I do say so myself, and I'm so excited to see them figure out their world's.
Sometimes it breaks my heart when they get frustrated and cry when they can't figure something out, but then my heart soars for them when they realize that they can figure it and it wasn't such a big deal after all. It's amazing to see myself and Mr. D in their personalities and mannerisms. That can also be a little frightening too at times.:)
I have nothing but hope for the future and can't wait to see what it brings to our little family. So here's to a fabulous school year and to many more wonderful memories and experiences.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Work It!!!!
I Got a Job!!!!! I am sooo excited. For a while now I have had this looming frustration hanging over my head. I've known that my youngest is going to be starting Kindergarten this year and the other two are in school full time already. I will have nothing to do!!!! I still want to be home when they get home and be available during the day in case they get sick or need new clothes, etc. That doesn't exactly make it easy to find a job that fits that criteria.
Mr. D. sold a fence to a local manufactured home community and right before he left the manager mentioned that her cleaning lady was leaving and they needed someone to start after the summer was over. It was at night for a few hours every night. Mr. D called me and asked if I was interested and I called her right away. I interviewed and got the job!!! I start in September and am excited for the extra money!!!!
What a blessing this opportunity is! I have been praying for something, checking craigslist for jobs, and really hoping something would pan out. I am so grateful!
This way I get to stay home during the day and maintain the house and kids, eat dinner with my family, and then go to work after the kids are in bed.
My responsibilities include cleaning bathrooms and facility buildings. It's a gorgeous facility. They've remodeled it. It has marble floors, granite counters, leather furniture, and beautiful finishes. The last gal that worked there, worked there for 20 years. I like that. I would be able to get my kids raised and still work.
I am really grateful for all of the experience I've had cleaning people's homes over the years. I wasn't overwhelmed at all when the manager took me around the facility. It's a lot, but with a good schedule figured out I think I will be just fine. I am so excited!!!!!
Mr. D. sold a fence to a local manufactured home community and right before he left the manager mentioned that her cleaning lady was leaving and they needed someone to start after the summer was over. It was at night for a few hours every night. Mr. D called me and asked if I was interested and I called her right away. I interviewed and got the job!!! I start in September and am excited for the extra money!!!!
What a blessing this opportunity is! I have been praying for something, checking craigslist for jobs, and really hoping something would pan out. I am so grateful!
This way I get to stay home during the day and maintain the house and kids, eat dinner with my family, and then go to work after the kids are in bed.
My responsibilities include cleaning bathrooms and facility buildings. It's a gorgeous facility. They've remodeled it. It has marble floors, granite counters, leather furniture, and beautiful finishes. The last gal that worked there, worked there for 20 years. I like that. I would be able to get my kids raised and still work.
I am really grateful for all of the experience I've had cleaning people's homes over the years. I wasn't overwhelmed at all when the manager took me around the facility. It's a lot, but with a good schedule figured out I think I will be just fine. I am so excited!!!!!
Monday, July 9, 2012
The Grass is Always Greener Where You Water It!!!
Trying to remember that. We had a nice and relaxing vacation up at the in laws cabin endearingly called "The Rat Shack". We were able to sleep in a travel trailer outside and it was very peaceful and quiet. I only read one book up there which isn't a lot. The last time we went I read the whole "Children of the Promise" series. We went on a fun wagon ride with the mules. They have a covered wagon. I really enjoyed that.
Then me and the Mr. went on a scouting expedition for his upcoming antelope hunt. We saw a HUGE herd of elk grazing in the middle of lower Lake Mary. The lake is dry.:) Hence the elk being in the middle of it. Mr. D had his binoculars and he swears there were at least 300. It was neat.
We ate, read, slept, visited, and the kids had a ball with their cousins. Everyone took a day for cooking and it was nice to only have to cook for one day. We were hoping for rain the whole time but only got a few sprinkles. Just enough to get the cars gross. The weather was in the 80's so we were outside for the majority of the time.
I was sitting on a blanket near my niece watching her while her mom used the restroom and I had a bug on me. No big deal. I killed it and there was blood all of over my hand and pants. I think I had my very first encounter with a tick. For the remainder of the trip I was paranoid. Checking the bed before I got into it, scratching and itching myself from pretend offenders, and freaking out every time I saw something that even remotely looked like one. Those things are nasty.
It was a nice respit from our daily affairs but I have to admit that I'm glad to be home. Having a sleep number bed definitely makes it hard to sleep anywhere else.
Speaking of grass, the Mr. wants to get ours planted this week. We have a baptism coming up and he would like to have that done before the party at our house. I have to say that it will be nice to have it done, but I'm not looking forward to having to do it in the hottest time of the summer. :( Oh well. Wish us luck!!!
Then me and the Mr. went on a scouting expedition for his upcoming antelope hunt. We saw a HUGE herd of elk grazing in the middle of lower Lake Mary. The lake is dry.:) Hence the elk being in the middle of it. Mr. D had his binoculars and he swears there were at least 300. It was neat.
We ate, read, slept, visited, and the kids had a ball with their cousins. Everyone took a day for cooking and it was nice to only have to cook for one day. We were hoping for rain the whole time but only got a few sprinkles. Just enough to get the cars gross. The weather was in the 80's so we were outside for the majority of the time.
I was sitting on a blanket near my niece watching her while her mom used the restroom and I had a bug on me. No big deal. I killed it and there was blood all of over my hand and pants. I think I had my very first encounter with a tick. For the remainder of the trip I was paranoid. Checking the bed before I got into it, scratching and itching myself from pretend offenders, and freaking out every time I saw something that even remotely looked like one. Those things are nasty.
It was a nice respit from our daily affairs but I have to admit that I'm glad to be home. Having a sleep number bed definitely makes it hard to sleep anywhere else.
Speaking of grass, the Mr. wants to get ours planted this week. We have a baptism coming up and he would like to have that done before the party at our house. I have to say that it will be nice to have it done, but I'm not looking forward to having to do it in the hottest time of the summer. :( Oh well. Wish us luck!!!
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