I know, I know, I didn't live up to my goal last week, but here I am! I am back!
Last weekend was kind of crazy. I was trying to get a bunch of certification done for my new job. Yup, my new job!
I have been subbing at a daycare that is owned by a family friend and so I was just there to make some money while trying to find something more permanent. Well I got an interview at DICK's Sporting Goods and the interview went great, but they couldn't promise me many hours :(. Our family friend texted me 15 minutes before this interview with DICK's and asked if I would rather work for her or DICK's. Well the position she was offering me is 9 to 5 Monday through Friday and my girls will be going to the daycare. With prayer and a lot of talking with my husband and some family, I came to the decision to go with the daycare job. Last week was my first full week and the first 3 days of "school" for the girls. It has been great and we couldn't be blessed more right now.
So last weekend I was doing STARS training, blood bourne pathogen training, and food handlers permit stuff. I just got my TB test done and all I have left to do is get my finger prints and background check done. More hoops to go through, right? But I am still getting full time hours with them which is wonderful.
I was also told last week that they want to train me to do more at the daycare, become a co-teacher, along with doing the scheduling and such. I am starting off being the break person that goes around to all the classrooms to give people their breaks. I am glad this will be a position I will be in for a while and the girls absolutely love being out and playing with other kids.
That really is our biggest news. We also found out last week that after this Fall semester, Treven only has 16 credits left to take! We really hope everything works out so he can graduate ASAP! He is also started on his development plan at work for him to get on the road to become manager by fall. He is loving it and I am so proud of him for the hard work he is putting in at work.
That's it for now!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Update Along with Promised Pictures
Melia's drawing of me
Drawing of McKenzie
Daddy the princess with his girls
Cousin fun in our van
McKenzie and her clothes obssession... Melia's PJ shirt on as pants
My stomach calmed down until Tuesday and then it really started hurting. Treven had to come home early from work; I held out until he had 2 hours left of his shift. Anyway, I was really nauseous and it just felt like ingestion or something, but it never went away. Friday was the only day that it wasn't killing me. Saturday morning was a 5K in Washougal that my whole family was doing. I signed up for the run, but again, stomach pain so I walked it with my dad. On Saturday night, I fell asleep about 10 and woke up at 10:45 with extreme stomach pain. I couldn't sleep at all... Treven wanted to take me to the ER, but I didn't want to deal with spending the extra money. I would rather wait until morning and go to Urgent Care. That night I was able to get about 2 hours of sleep and I had to be sitting up on the couch curled in a ball to finally get those 2 hours. Treven worked on Sunday so I took the girls to my parents (Thank goodness they live so close!) and went to the Urgent Care across the street from our apartments. Well turned out, bladder infection along with gastritis. They sent some cultures to a lab to make sure it is a bladder infection, but it takes 4 days to hear back. They put me on antibiotics for the bladder infection until they hear back from the lab. We will see on Thursday.
Treven found out this last week at work that they are planning on getting Treven to manager by the fall which would be awesome! He would be salary paid when he becomes manager and it is what he wants to do. He wants to make this a career so that is one step closer! :) He still loves the job and the people he works with.
One day late, but I have had an excuse, right? :)
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Mother's Day
As I look where I am at now, I feel so blessed for the family that I have surrounding me. My husband, Treven, is an incredible man and an amazing father. He strives to make our family's life better. He cares so much for our girls and loves every moment he has with them. The girls are such a blessing in my life and I don't know what I would do without them. I was meant to be a mother and I am loving every minute of it. I am not saying that I don't have those days where I want to pull my hair out and just want to have my own time; I do have those days! But that is part of motherhood. I feel like I am giving pieces of myself to my family and I love that I am able to do that.
This Mother's Day, I am able to reflect at my life and realize that I really am blessed with the wonderful family I do have. I also am so thankful for all the wonderful examples that I have had in my life. My own mother, my sister-in-laws, my sister, my aunts, my cousins, my friends, and so many more. I know of so many great mothers and I thank all of you for all the selfless and kind examples you have been to me!
Happy Mother's Day!
I hope that all made sense. I was rambling on with my thoughts
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Try something new...
I realized today that I check my blog and friend's blogs everyday and yet, mine hasn't had a new post in a while! I am going to try and set a goal for myself... Blog every weekend. I really want to get going on it. I feel like this could be my journal and would really help me remember times in my life. So here it is...
For Kim: Substituting is turning out to be a not-so-great situation. This time last year I had jobs almost everyday. This year is a different story. I get maybe 2 calls a month. Anyway, so I am looking for something else. I would have anyway since I would not be subbing during the summer. I have applied to a couple of places. I did get a job but it does not start until the end of June so it is on the back burner. I am trying to get something else before then. We will see if something turns up. I am currently a substitute at a daycare which is working out well and it is definitely helping! I am pretty much thankful for anything I can get right now. Other than the whole work situation, I am gearing up for my first half marathon this Saturday. I am doing it with my mom, sister in law, and cousin. It should be a lot of fun. I am pretty nervous and I plan on going pretty slow and just finish. We are all planning on doing another one in October so I feel like it will be easier to train for. This half marathon has been hard to train for with the weather. I have been doing most of it on a treadmill. One another thing for me, I passed my last certification test so now I can receive my 5 year teaching certificate in Washington State!
For Treven: Treven is loving work still. He received a two dollar raise when he received a promotion to Apparel Lead at Dick's (Lead is right under Manager). He finished the semester out at WSU and will be taking the summer off of school. We are working on filling out all the paperwork for him to gain his residency so he can go full time in the fall. He doesn't know really what to do when he gets home from work now and has time since there is no school work. He is planning on getting some exercise back into his schedule since he now has some time and our apartment complex has a gym.
For Melia: I always say both girls are growing so fast and that is because they are. Melia decided to do gymnastics a little bit ago and did it for about a month, but there was only one other kid in the class so she didn't enjoy it much. She said she wanted to do swim lessons with her cousin, Andrew so we switched her. She is loving it and getting more comfortable in the water. She finally stopped being scared of the depth last week. I think the fact that she doesn't have her glasses on in the water does not help! She has about one month left of swim lessons then our pool opens here at the complex so we figure we can work on it with her there instead of paying $50 bucks a month... at least until I do find a job. :) She is loving Sunbeams at church and has a new friend Elyse from her class and begs to play with her all the time. I love how social she is!
For McKenzie: Well McKenzie is nuts! She has a lot of Treven's reflexes and she isn't scared of doing a lot of things. She jumps off of the ottoman onto the couch, off the couch, off the table onto blankets... she is nuts. If she falls down my parents stairs, she will catch her self on the railing like 2 steps down. It is crazy! She has done that three times. She is talking a lot more in sentences and picking up everything. She said her first prayer tonight with help! Some sentences are, "I want (enter item) too!" and "I love you too". But she will go on with more. She calls Melia "girl" since she can't say Melia. She loves to run, jump, and dance. She loves playing with her cousins, Noah and Beck. Those three are trouble all together! I am thinking of getting McKenzie a hair cut because she has such a mullet! We will see! McKenzie really is growing fast. She is wearing a lot of 2T AND 3T clothes. She is getting interested in going potty on the toilet so we will see if she gets interested enough to get potty trained!
Well that is really all from us. We may be going camping over Memorial Day weekend in California (all depends on my work situation) which will be a blast then we have a family reunion at a lake for a week at the end of June that we can't wait for!
That's it for now! Now on to accomplish my goal... I will be back in a week. :)
For Kim: Substituting is turning out to be a not-so-great situation. This time last year I had jobs almost everyday. This year is a different story. I get maybe 2 calls a month. Anyway, so I am looking for something else. I would have anyway since I would not be subbing during the summer. I have applied to a couple of places. I did get a job but it does not start until the end of June so it is on the back burner. I am trying to get something else before then. We will see if something turns up. I am currently a substitute at a daycare which is working out well and it is definitely helping! I am pretty much thankful for anything I can get right now. Other than the whole work situation, I am gearing up for my first half marathon this Saturday. I am doing it with my mom, sister in law, and cousin. It should be a lot of fun. I am pretty nervous and I plan on going pretty slow and just finish. We are all planning on doing another one in October so I feel like it will be easier to train for. This half marathon has been hard to train for with the weather. I have been doing most of it on a treadmill. One another thing for me, I passed my last certification test so now I can receive my 5 year teaching certificate in Washington State!
For Treven: Treven is loving work still. He received a two dollar raise when he received a promotion to Apparel Lead at Dick's (Lead is right under Manager). He finished the semester out at WSU and will be taking the summer off of school. We are working on filling out all the paperwork for him to gain his residency so he can go full time in the fall. He doesn't know really what to do when he gets home from work now and has time since there is no school work. He is planning on getting some exercise back into his schedule since he now has some time and our apartment complex has a gym.
For Melia: I always say both girls are growing so fast and that is because they are. Melia decided to do gymnastics a little bit ago and did it for about a month, but there was only one other kid in the class so she didn't enjoy it much. She said she wanted to do swim lessons with her cousin, Andrew so we switched her. She is loving it and getting more comfortable in the water. She finally stopped being scared of the depth last week. I think the fact that she doesn't have her glasses on in the water does not help! She has about one month left of swim lessons then our pool opens here at the complex so we figure we can work on it with her there instead of paying $50 bucks a month... at least until I do find a job. :) She is loving Sunbeams at church and has a new friend Elyse from her class and begs to play with her all the time. I love how social she is!
For McKenzie: Well McKenzie is nuts! She has a lot of Treven's reflexes and she isn't scared of doing a lot of things. She jumps off of the ottoman onto the couch, off the couch, off the table onto blankets... she is nuts. If she falls down my parents stairs, she will catch her self on the railing like 2 steps down. It is crazy! She has done that three times. She is talking a lot more in sentences and picking up everything. She said her first prayer tonight with help! Some sentences are, "I want (enter item) too!" and "I love you too". But she will go on with more. She calls Melia "girl" since she can't say Melia. She loves to run, jump, and dance. She loves playing with her cousins, Noah and Beck. Those three are trouble all together! I am thinking of getting McKenzie a hair cut because she has such a mullet! We will see! McKenzie really is growing fast. She is wearing a lot of 2T AND 3T clothes. She is getting interested in going potty on the toilet so we will see if she gets interested enough to get potty trained!
Well that is really all from us. We may be going camping over Memorial Day weekend in California (all depends on my work situation) which will be a blast then we have a family reunion at a lake for a week at the end of June that we can't wait for!
That's it for now! Now on to accomplish my goal... I will be back in a week. :)
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