We signed the lease on the new house today and get possession on Tuesday. I am so excited! I have boxes packed and stacked everywhere and cannot wait to have room to move and breath. Even T is starting to get excited now. Oh yeah...T asked me to marry him...and I said yes. We will get married during our family reunion so that no one has to make another trip to Missouri. It is going to be a small wedding and I will update as the plans come along. The first priority is to get moved and get unpacked. And then I am going to have to start looking for a job or at least a way to make money.
I wrote an e-mail to a past co-worker and I am hoping she can give me a little more insight that will help me get my job back. I really loved working for my last employer and would love to go back. It was a great company, I just think they got pressured into firing me because of the Joint Venture company we were working with...or at least I like telling myself that!
I need to put some more pictures on here but don't know how. I have so many cute pictures of baby! I also need to learn how to get them off my phone camera!
That is all for tonight. I will try to get back on soon!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Good News!
We have our house! I am so excited. We are supposed to move in it in September. That gives us less than three weeks to pack. I don't know how I am going to do this. There is just so much stuff in this house and I know that I will be the one doing all the packing. Nonnie is trying to get some help for us and I am going to ask my future in-laws for some muscle to help us move but I don't know how that will turn out. My goal is to have absolutely everything in boxes so all the gang has to do is come in pick up a box and head out to the truck. I need to reserve a truck tomorrow-I just have to figure out which weekend we are going to move. Nonnie wants to move Labor Day weekend but I am afraid we will not get the help we need on that weekend because it is a holiday weekend.
Lanie has discovered her tongue and it is so cute. She sucks on her tongue all the time and blows raspberries. She has also come up with a new noise-I cannot even describe it. She sucks air in through her mouth with her tongue held to the roof of her mouth. It took me awhile to figure out how she did it but it is so funny. She is so tickelish so we spend a lot of time tickling and laughing. She also loves to give kisses but they are open mouth kisses in which she usually ends up sliming my cheek, or sucking on my nose or chin. I really hope baby spit helps my skin look younger!
My posts may be sporadic for the next few weeks but I will try to keep everyone updated on our progress through this move.
Lanie has discovered her tongue and it is so cute. She sucks on her tongue all the time and blows raspberries. She has also come up with a new noise-I cannot even describe it. She sucks air in through her mouth with her tongue held to the roof of her mouth. It took me awhile to figure out how she did it but it is so funny. She is so tickelish so we spend a lot of time tickling and laughing. She also loves to give kisses but they are open mouth kisses in which she usually ends up sliming my cheek, or sucking on my nose or chin. I really hope baby spit helps my skin look younger!
My posts may be sporadic for the next few weeks but I will try to keep everyone updated on our progress through this move.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Still looking for a house!
I know that we have only been looking for two weeks but it is getting very frustrating. No one likes the same things and it seems as though it is the guys against the girls. My sister and I like a place but the guys don't. We have appointments to see three houses tomorrow-a 3 bedroom and two 4 bedroom homes. We looked at a 3 bedroom tonight but it was way too small. I don't think there was as much square footage in it as there is in my apartment. This is getting on everyone's nerves and there have been a few blow ups but we will do this and come out stronger on the other side.
In the meantime it is so wonderful to wake up to Lanie's smiles in the morning. You cannot be in a bad mood when that beautiful baby smiles at you. I hate the way that we got her but I thank god for her every day. I never got to be a mom and this is my one and only chance and I am going to get every bit of joy out of it that I can. T is really digging the "dad" thing too. He loves to play with her and talk to her. She smiles and coos at him and makes his day. He loves showing people her picture too. The other night we went out for dinner and he was showing pictures to our waitress!
I will update tomorrow on the house hunt. Hopefully it will be done!
In the meantime it is so wonderful to wake up to Lanie's smiles in the morning. You cannot be in a bad mood when that beautiful baby smiles at you. I hate the way that we got her but I thank god for her every day. I never got to be a mom and this is my one and only chance and I am going to get every bit of joy out of it that I can. T is really digging the "dad" thing too. He loves to play with her and talk to her. She smiles and coos at him and makes his day. He loves showing people her picture too. The other night we went out for dinner and he was showing pictures to our waitress!
I will update tomorrow on the house hunt. Hopefully it will be done!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
It's Thursday
This morning I was so tired I did not even hear the baby wake up. T said that when he came home I didn't even stir. Usually I have a very hard time sleeping and only sleep a couple of hours at a time but I hit the pillow last night and was gone! I got up at 1:15 to go to the bathroom and then went back to bed and did not hear the baby cry at 6:30. T came up from downstairs-as he had not gone to bed yet. He got her out of bed, changed her diaper and put clean clothes on her before I ever heard them through the monitor. This is so unusual for me because I usually wake up at her first stirring-she doesn't even have to cry. This was the first time T has changed her diaper or her clothes and when we brought her downstairs he even fed her. Yes, I got video! It was very cute to see this. I am very proud of him-and her-she was very patient with him.
Hopefully today we will be able to have the guys look at that house I like and we will be able to start the process of getting this house. Wish us luck!
Hopefully today we will be able to have the guys look at that house I like and we will be able to start the process of getting this house. Wish us luck!
Life with the new baby
Life continues with the new baby. My sister and I live next door to each other so in our innocent ignorance, we thought we would be fine in these places for a couple of years. But then we started getting all the stuff we neeeded to rais the baby. we of course needed 2 of everything so that we would not need to cart stuff back and forth. This is all well and good except that we have no room in our apartments. N and J have a small one bhedroom apartment and T and I have a 2 bedroom apartment. I literally have a path from my front door through the living room into the kitchen to the back door. around this path is baby stuff. A swing, a bouncy chair, exersaucer, music thingy, pad for the baby to lay on on the floor-and then add in all the furniture we have for our own comfort and you have total chaos.
So, what are we doing about this? We are looking for a house. We need 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a man cave. We have looked at three and only one works for us and actually, I fell in love with the house. We are taking the guys over to see it tomorrow so I hope they like it as much as I do. The other three think we should look at 6-10 houses before making a decision but my opinion is, if this is the right house, snatch it up now before someone else does. Besides that there are not 6 houses on the market that even meet the criteria to go look at. Why waste time on ones that don't fit the very basics such as location and price.
I need to make some calls today on movers so I will get off here so I can.
Please stay tuned for more of my saga!
So, what are we doing about this? We are looking for a house. We need 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a man cave. We have looked at three and only one works for us and actually, I fell in love with the house. We are taking the guys over to see it tomorrow so I hope they like it as much as I do. The other three think we should look at 6-10 houses before making a decision but my opinion is, if this is the right house, snatch it up now before someone else does. Besides that there are not 6 houses on the market that even meet the criteria to go look at. Why waste time on ones that don't fit the very basics such as location and price.
I need to make some calls today on movers so I will get off here so I can.
Please stay tuned for more of my saga!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
If there is one sure thing in life it is that it is always in a state of constant change. My life was going along fine. I have a good man in my life, a comfortable home, a good job and enough money to pay most of my bills in a timely manner. Life is going good until May 2010. I lost my job that I had had for over 6 years and the reasons they cited for firing were so bogus that I considered taking them to court because I honestly felt and still do feel that I was fired because I am too fat. That is a whole other story and one that I am not going to go into on this blog but may touch on it time and again. This blog is about what happens after that.
I received two weeks severence pay and 2 weeks vacation pay, plus I had a small amount of money in my 401k that I decided to cash out to pay up some bills ahead of time so that if it took me a while to find a job, at least I would not have to worry about rent, phone, electric, and gas. For the first time in my life I had a bit of money in the bank and it felt very nice.
The end of June I received a phone call that my 26 year old niece was killed in a car accident. She had been living in another state and had her 4 month old baby with her. Thankfully she was killed instantly and did not suffer but she left her 3 year old daughter-who was living with her paternal grandmother and of course her 4 month old daughter who was in the accident with her. Praise be to all that is holy that her baby was strapped into her carseat appropriately and suffered no injury.
If this had been before I lost my job, we would not have had the money to go get the baby and take care of arrangements for my niece. As I stated before, I could pay my bills but neither I or her parents had any extra money and certainly not enough to make this trip and pay for all that needed to be done. I started to understand why things had happened the way they had. My sister, her husband and I loaded up my car and headed west to take care of all the things that needed to be done. We made an instant decision that the four of us (including my boyfriend) would raise this baby together so on the trip out there we occupied our minds with making plans to raise Lanie. My boyfriend rounded the troops up back here at home and procured most of the baby items we would need and so much other stuff would come from my sister and her husbands places of employment.
We took care of all the arrangements out west and them loaded up the car and came home. By the way, the first time through the mountains in Colorado was exciting and exhilerating but the second time, not so much. We were tired of mountains, tired of stting in the car and just wanted to get home. Six days after we started our journey we were back home and were astonished at all that had been delivered to our homes for the baby. Never in my life have I seen such an outpouring of love and kindness. We did not have to buy a thing for the baby-not even diapers or wipes. It was absolutely amazing.
Please check back tomorrow to see more of our story.
I received two weeks severence pay and 2 weeks vacation pay, plus I had a small amount of money in my 401k that I decided to cash out to pay up some bills ahead of time so that if it took me a while to find a job, at least I would not have to worry about rent, phone, electric, and gas. For the first time in my life I had a bit of money in the bank and it felt very nice.
The end of June I received a phone call that my 26 year old niece was killed in a car accident. She had been living in another state and had her 4 month old baby with her. Thankfully she was killed instantly and did not suffer but she left her 3 year old daughter-who was living with her paternal grandmother and of course her 4 month old daughter who was in the accident with her. Praise be to all that is holy that her baby was strapped into her carseat appropriately and suffered no injury.
If this had been before I lost my job, we would not have had the money to go get the baby and take care of arrangements for my niece. As I stated before, I could pay my bills but neither I or her parents had any extra money and certainly not enough to make this trip and pay for all that needed to be done. I started to understand why things had happened the way they had. My sister, her husband and I loaded up my car and headed west to take care of all the things that needed to be done. We made an instant decision that the four of us (including my boyfriend) would raise this baby together so on the trip out there we occupied our minds with making plans to raise Lanie. My boyfriend rounded the troops up back here at home and procured most of the baby items we would need and so much other stuff would come from my sister and her husbands places of employment.
We took care of all the arrangements out west and them loaded up the car and came home. By the way, the first time through the mountains in Colorado was exciting and exhilerating but the second time, not so much. We were tired of mountains, tired of stting in the car and just wanted to get home. Six days after we started our journey we were back home and were astonished at all that had been delivered to our homes for the baby. Never in my life have I seen such an outpouring of love and kindness. We did not have to buy a thing for the baby-not even diapers or wipes. It was absolutely amazing.
Please check back tomorrow to see more of our story.
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