There has honestly been SO much going on lately, that I can't even think straight. These past two weeks my head has been spinning, maybe it's the heat. :) To get everyone up to speed, here are a bunch of random thoughts!!
To begin...we bought our very first brand new car!! Or, I should say I bought our very first new car! Dan was busy with work, so he wasn't able to go. He left me to do the wheelin' and dealin'. With 0% financing we couldn't beat the deal! I wanted something with better gas mileage (for a reason I will talk about in a minute) and decided on a Toyota Camry. I LOVE the car, and it honestly has just as much room as the Murano!
The biggest change for our family is that I am going back to work full-time. It is bitter-sweet for me because I really don't want to go back to work full-time, but it is a job offer that I could not turn down! When I did my internship in college I did it with a local hospice that offered me a PRN (on call) job when I was done with school. That was all they had at the time and I couldn't depend on that, so I then got a job with the hospice that I left after Addison was born. I won't go into the reasons, but it was the right thing to do at the time. Last week I received a call from my former boss asking me if I was interested in a social work position that would be opening. I was caught a little off guard and it was hard to come to this decision, but with the rising cost of health care, I don't have a choice. We pay out of pocket for our health insurance now and it is SOOO expensive! This hospice offers wonderful insurance! PLUS, this is what I love to do. I love hospice work, and I am SO excited to get back into it. I am just REALLY struggling with the fact that I am going to work full time and leaving Addie at daycare. I mean, REALLY struggling. People keep telling me it will get easier, but I am having a hard time thinking it will be! I just keep telling myself that I am off at 4:30pm and we have every night and weekend together as a family. I start the 1st of August, and so the countdown begins.
Dan's new job is going well. It is so nice to have him home on the weekends! I have felt SO bad for him (or anyone working outside) this past week with the heat. He told me that he had to change his shirt 5 times the other day because he was sweating so bad. I think we are going to have a break in the heat today!!
Addison is transitioning to a BIG girl bed! It was getting to the point where she was not safe in her crib. She would jump in that thing and I swear that sometime she is going to fly right out!! The bed is here, we just have to get it put together!! I am hoping that this is the solution we need for her NOT to come in our bed at 2-3am. I hope that I am able just to go lay with her for a short while until she falls back asleep.
This weekend is our family reunion. We have close family coming home from Hawaii, California, and Texas, and other family coming from all over. I can't even express how excited I am to get everyone together!! It has been 12 years since we have all been together. FAR TOO LONG!!
We got Addie a BIG swing set with a tree house and all! She is so excited to play on it, but with the heat, we still have not put it up. Hoping we can do the sometime soon!!
We put all new interior doors up in the house. It looks wonderful compared to the doors before!! Take a look...
We also got all the hardware on the cupboards in the kitchen! Now we have to get the lighting and the fan above the stove done.
There have been construction crews here the past few weeks putting in Dan's manure pit. I will post pictures of it sometime because this thing is HUGE!! When it is finished it will cut about an hour from his chores and will reduce the smell on the farm!
Okay, I think the last change that has occurred in this house is that Izzy is now an outside kitty with the rest of them. I guess I am allergic. I didn't know I was, but I have had a stuffy nose and have been sneezing non-stop since we brought her in the house. This wasn't our only reason for the decision. Izzy kept wanting to run outside with the other kitties, I don't think she wanted to be in here. Who would when you have to be tortured by an almost-two-year-old! Addie was SO mean to Izzy. She would pick her up by her tail, ears, fur, pretty much whatever she could grab. Then she would squeeze her so tight! Addie really hasn't even noticed, thank goodness! She will just have to play and torture outside! lol!!
