ANNOUNCEMENT!

Wow...has it been that long since I last wrote anything on here?  Well I guess so.

I do have an WONDERFUL announcement.

After searching for a full time job for 4 years and seriously perusing one of them for the past year I have finally been offered a full time job!  And the best part?????  They will be grooming me to be one of their trainers. 

So...you think there might be better news?  Why, yes. Yes there is!  When I become one of their trainers I'll be salaried and have a company car.

Can you say....WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Of course, this is all pending my pre-employment drug test that I had done today.  But I know that it will come back completely clean.  I will start in one more week.

Keeping It Real People

Yes, it's 2:45 in the morning as I start to write this.  I can't sleep tonight and writing tends to help me.  Every time I try to go to sleep tonight my mind starts to run and I start to cry.  Some of you know what's going on and now I'm sharing it with the rest of you.  Don't know how many of you will actually read this post anyway so I feel comfortable putting it out there.  My husband has been without a job since about June.  Yes, we had savings but it can go pretty quickly especially when we also had to move.  He did start a new job this past Monday but it's not the job he really wants, he isn't that happy about it and it doesn't pay that much. But it's a job for now.  I'm not only working as a Crossing Guard (I don't get paid for this job over the summer) and working as an Independent Consultant with Lindt RSVP (which is just now starting to take off) but as of this coming Monday I have a third job with Bible Story Murals.  And to top it off I'm looking for a fourth job.  The part that is keeping me up at night is the fact that I don't know if we'll have a place to live come October.  Not to mention that our electric bill and water bill are due.  We've been to our church's mission center but they too are so stretched that they could only pledge $70 towards our electric bill.  We're calling the electric company to get an extension but they only will give a 5 day extension.  So we have to find the money from somewhere by the end of this next week.  What I haven't told you is that we are broke.  Dead broke.  We have roughly $100 to our name and that is cash.  Bank account is empty...not even a penny is in there.

Weird thing is that a couple of nights ago I had a dream that I wish I could make come true.  In my dream everyone that I knew on Facebook all gave us $10 because giving a friend $10 really isn't that much.  I have over 400 friends and family.  You can now see how I wish this dream would come true.

I'm the strong one in the family and am the one that has always held it together no matter what we've gone through. And trust me...we've been through A LOT!  But the past few days have been pretty rough on me.  I'm crying at the drop of a hat.  I'm strung out.  I'm a Mom, housekeeper, cook, friend, holding 3 jobs, taking Sam to Scouts, Flag Football Practice, Route 56 at church (program for 5th and 6th graders), and I'm still singing in the choir and playing in the bells for now.  I may have to give those last two up to find that fourth job.  Not to mention that Sam attends Connections Academy which is an online public school so he attends school at home.  It's the best thing for him so I'm working around that schedule as well because I don't want to take that away from him.  It's his education after all.

Well it's out there now...for all the world to see.  We're dead broke, looking for help and praying for a miracle that we won't have to move yet again...and it may be moving to...well I actually don't know.

It's now after 3:00 in the morning and I'm going to try to go to bed again.  Tomorrow is Sunday and we have Sunday School and Church in the morning so I need to try to get at least a little bit of sleep.

We'll Just Have To See How This Goes....

Tonight was the night that I had had enough.  The TV, the computers, the gaming systems had been on all day long and I just couldn't take it anymore.  This actually is pretty normal in our house and I'm to the point where it has to change.  But I know that with my son it is going to take baby steps.  So after dinner tonight I told him that there would be no TV or "screens" on for 30 minutes.  You should have seen the look on his face and the reaction that I got.  You can only imagine the comebacks that I got after announcing that. 

He promptly sat himself down at the computer.  I said, "no", it's a screen.  He then asked me if he could play Wii with me and get some exercise, I said "no, it's a screen".  But you have to admit that he was trying hard on that one.  So he sat for a few moments with a sour look on his face in one of our chairs in the living room and I could tell he was trying to think of something.  He even asked if he could at least play his DS....again I said "no".  I never raised my voice but I made it very clear that I would not say "yes" to him.  I proceeded to clean up after dinner and he promptly marched in the kitchen and announced that, "but there is nothing to do!".  I suggested that he could read a book, play with his legos, draw, write, read one of his magazines or play with any of his toys.  But I don't want to do that was the response that I was given.  I told him that he could just sit for awhile in the quiet. 

Once I was done in the kitchen I got my book and headed to the living room only to find him reading one of his books on the living room floor.  Trust me, I wanted to say something about what he was doing but I didn't.  I just enjoyed the time.  Then my phone rang.  "But mom...it has a screen!" he quickly pointed out.  I told him that yes it had a screen and that I would look to see who it was.  If I felt as though it was someone that needed to talk to me than I would answer it but if not they could leave me a message and that I would check it after the 30 minutes were up.  He did agree to that....WHEW!  It was a text from a dear friend and once I saw who it was from I knew that it could wait.

Okay...only 5 more minutes to go....Okay, Sam, times up!  He looks up at me from the floor and says, "Well that wasn't so bad".  You can't imagine how that made me feel.  I did something and he really didn't throw a fit about it and then said it wasn't that bad!  I did tell him that this would be constant thing and that our (notice I did say "our") screen time had to go down.  We would do at least 30 minutes a day, if not more, every day.  And the biggest shocker for me was that he even waited awhile to turn the TV back on.  It was time for "Wheel of Fortune" you see.

How about you?  Have you found yourself with all of this technology around and realizing that it's just to much?  I'd like to know.

So as the title of this post says....We'll just have to see how this goes.

It's Only Tuesday?

It's hard to believe that it's only Tuesday!  This past weekend was a VERY LONG weekend.  Friday evening was spent here at home sewing and getting ready for Saturday.  Saturday it was rise and shine drag myself out of bed at 5 AM to get myself ready to take Sam 2 hours away for his Scout Camporall.  This is a District wide event and there were hundreds of boys out there.  Each Cub Scout Den goes around to the different Boy Scout Troops and participates in an activity for points.  Each activity is was worth 10 points each.  Sam and I had to leave in the afternoon so that I could make it back to work but we both had a fantastic time.  I kept in touch with the parents that were still out there so that Sam and I could learn how the Den had done.  By the end of the day Sam's Den had scored 97 out of a possible 100 but we still didn't know how they had placed overall.  I'm happy to report that Sam's Den took 1st place and now has the District Trophy! 

Sunday morning it was back up at 5 AM to get myself ready, finish making a casserole carrier (which will be on my Etsy store soon) and made a casserole.  I was up at the church by 6:50 to help set up for the breakfast that our Sunday School class was cooking for the winning classes in the canned food drive that we held.  I also played in the Hand Bell Choir in the first and third services as well as singing in the choir during the third service.  Sunday afternoon was spent watching football, crafting and getting ready for the week.

Monday morning I got up and went to work, came home and realized that my eyes were really fighting my contacts so I took them out and put my glasses back on.  I saw that my glasses were dirty so I went to clean them and they popped in half in my hands.  So back in went the contacts.  The day went as usual but it was back out to visit another Boy Scout Troop.  Sam really liked this one and so did I.  We didn't get home until around 9:30 last night. 

This morning while standing and working my crossing guard corner I lightly rubbed my left eye only to realize that my contact had torn in half.  DANG!  REALLY?  Now I have no contacts (it was my last pair) and no glasses.  So I'm sitting here with Duct Taped Glasses.  I'll be seeing the eye doctor next week (payday) and hope that everything will be back to normal with my eyes. 

With such a busy weekend and going full force into the week it's hard to believe that it's only Tuesday.

Oh...here are three quick pictures (they really don't do it justice and dinner is almost ready) at the casserole carrier that I made...