Just for Sexy Slushie Sarah

So at the request/demand from Sarah...I will write an update blog.

Tim has been gone for 2 weeks and 1 day. It actually, surprisingly, hasn't been as hard as I was expecting. Yes...yes...I know, everyone told me I'd be okay..but watching the days get closer and closer for him to leave..it was hard. I was able to speak to him pretty regularly from when he left til he went down range for basic, which was Monday, Nov 9th. They were allowed to have their phones and I think most of that was due to the Ft. Hood shootings. A lot of them were pretty shooken up, as was the nation. The night before he went down range, Sunday the 8th, he was able to speak to me on the phone for about 45 minutes and he was depressed. He said he was ready to get it over with so he could come home, but that he really missed us. I don't blame him..what those guys (when I say that, I'm including women too) were about to go through is pretty rough stuff. Especially the drill sergeants telling the fathers 'don't worry about your kids, Jodi (what the military refers to as the man who steps in when you're not around) is taking care of them and fucking your wife' Yeah, pretty heavy shit. Doesn't sound too bad written out, but those soldiers will tell you, that when you're sleep deprived, privacy deprived and homesick..it gets to you. We ended our phone conversation on a good note, with him laughing, excited and ready to get it all taken care of.

He called me Monday morning for 10 seconds telling me they needed a scanned copy of my drivers license, that they needed it for DEERS. He then called me for another 15 seconds on Tuesday morning to tell me his mailing address. Within that 15 seconds I asked how he was doing and he said 'awesome, i'm enjoying it.' I asked if he had been 'smoked' yet and he said 'oh yeah...we all have'. And that was the end to our phone convo's. I haven't heard from him in a week but have written multiple letters. I miss him like crazy but I'm not letting it get me down, gotta stay positive. He told me in the beginning, 'you can't get depressed because I need you to be strong for me. If you get depressed, I get depressed, and we don't want that!' So I've been staying positive. 29 days til I am able to pick him up from the airport and he is wearing his ACU's...hot stuff. And yes, I've already bought a new outfit for that occasion. :)

On to another topic, I quit my job. HOORAY!!! I'm not going to talk about how awful that place was or how management was all screwed in the head, because lets face it, everyone knows by now. I am so excited to be a stay at home mom again. Tim always jokes that I am allergic to work and that if he can make it work, he'd rather me never have to work another day in my life. I support that decision, lol. I do want to go to school one day to make myself a bit independent..but right now..I am happy to sit at home with my girls watching cartoons in the morning, baking blueberry muffins for breakfast and going for walks and going on playdates. :) I plan on, hopefully soon, buying a double jogging stroller so the girls and I can start going on LOOONG walks and I can get some more excercise. Except the really nice strollers are fairly expensive, at least in my opinion. Hopefully I can get one of those strollers soon though.

Madison has started sleeping in my old twin size bed that is in her room. When you see me say 'her room' what that means is..we are living with my mother, and my bedroom was left the way it was when I moved out back in 2005. What we did when we moved in was, we emptied the closet, since I obviously can't fit into any of that crap anymore, and we put the girls clothes in it. We then assembled Madison's bed in my room. So my old room, is now, her room. Well she started climbing out of the crib and climbing into my twin size bed and started sleeping in it. Right now I have the crib pushed up along side the bed so she can't roll off (the bed is against a wall so it only has one open side). It's working for now, I just need to get one of those bed rails that hooks on under the mattress, so I can FINALLY get rid of the crib. I can't believe Madison will be turning 2 on the 7th of next month. Where does the time go? Really!?

Mackenzie's attitude is finally improving after being home for awhile and not around the kids at her school. For the entire time she was enrolled, she was terrible. Hitting, kicking, spitting, talking back and being disrespectful, and not just at school but at home too. Everyone was getting tired of it quick and despite the discipline, talks and things being taken away..it wasn't getting any better. I think she was just desperate for attention, she has spent her entire life with one on one contact...she gets bored easily and likes to always have something to catch her attention..and I don't think she was getting that while I was working. Mackenzie is spoiled and not the bad kind of spoiled, not spoiled with toys and materialistic things, she is spoiled with attention and interaction. She doesn't want you to throw a toy down infront of her and walk away..she wants you to play with her. She doesn't want you to give her some crayons and paper..she wants you to talk to her while she does. This kid is a full time job :) but it makes for a healthy toddler. It was hard on her being away from Madison also. They weren't able to play with each other, and by the time they got home from school..they were both so tired and grouchy they fought until bed time. It's nice to see them playing together again and laughing.

Well Sarah...how was that for an update? lol

New adventure

So as many of you know, the girls and myself are on a new adventure...


the girls are now in pre-school and I am now working again.


I filled out an online inquiry for employment on the Stepping Stone School website, well I got a call back and had an interview on Monday (8/31), the initial interview went great and they told me to report to a school, #15, on Tuesday for my second interview. It would be an hour long and I could take my girls.


So on Tuesday I went and Mackenzie went to her own class and Madison came with me into the 2s class while I watched one of the teachers. After my hour of observing I went and talked to the director where she told me I had the job if I wanted it and that they would be calling me.

So on Wednesday I got the phone call telling me that orientation would be on Thursday and that I could drop my girls off at their school while I attended it. So Thursday morning I woke up bright and early (5:45am) and got dressed then woke up the girls and got them ready. I took the girls to their school and of course there were tears. Mackenzie was exhausted because she woke up so darn early, in fact she even told me "Mom, it's too early for this nonsense, I want to go back to bed." It was cute. Madison was a complete wreck, I knew she would be. That child is attached to me 24/7.

I attended orientation and then raced back to pickup my girls, eager to hear the stories Mackenzie would have. I showed up smack dab in the middle of nap time..but of course my kids were the only children awake during nap time in their classrooms. ::sigh:: shocker.

Well today was my training day, so once again I dropped the girls off at their school..where both were screaming this time when I left them. This behavior is crazy for Mackenzie who rarely has separation issues. In fact I don't remember her ever crying because we weren't there. That was pretty upset, but Kelti, I did what you told me too, both days! I gave them a kiss, told them bye..then turned and walked out. I didn't go back when they started crying.

I was to attend training in Austin and as I had ended up late to orientation on Thursday I decided to give myself more time to get down there through traffic. Well, my luck..no traffic..so I was an hour early!! This would work to my benefit in the long run. I was suppose to show up at 8:30 and leave at 12:00 to report to my school at 1:30 where I would finish my day. I didn't take money or pack a lunch because I had planned on swinging by the house and grabbing a bite before going to my school...well they told me around 9 that I would stay there the whole day. This kinda screwed up my plan, but the director ended up buying me lunch, how sweet. I ended up helping in a 10-15 month classroom and those kids were too sweet. Besides the snotty noses..and crankiness at nap time..it was very enjoyable. Well since I had showed up an hour early, it meant I got to leave an hour early..so at 4:30 I got in the car, drove to pick up Tim from work and we went to get our girls. We went and got the girls from their rooms and they clung to us til we put them in their car seats. Tim hadn't seen their school yet, so this was the perfect opportunity for him to see it seeing as beginning Tuesday I will just take them when I leave work.

That's right, I said it...I start at my new school on Tuesday. I'm so very excited and I hope that this isn't a too good to be true kinda thing, because doing this will help keep the girls and I busy through this first separation in our military life. Keep your fingers crossed!


(I didn't go back and read through to see if it made any sense..so if anything sounds weird...that's why. That and people kept talking to me while I was writing it)