It's just really hard to get anything done when you're watching 5 kids.
I can imagine! But get this...I have a friend who seems really floaty, but she's actually very good at her life. She has 3 bio kids. She and her husband adopted two more girls from hubby's sister (or all but adopted...never been quite sure, they call her mom but also call her SIL mom).
Her OWN sister re-married, and made an interesting choice...ended up in jail, having JUST had a baby, and her husband was in jail too (for trying to kidnap his kids from a previous marriage), which caused my friend to have to watch something like 6 sort of older kids AND an infant, along with her own 5...then her sis got out of jail, didn't have custody, got pg again, and then jail again...so my friend had her own 5 and her sisters 6 or 8 (lost count) kids.
Fed, clothed (when your'e doing a family foster you get NOTHING from the state, it turns out), and homeschooled all of them. On her hubby's salary (with perhaps some help from her parents).
Thankfully now (about 2 years of that stuff) her sister's kids are with her parents, which took some time b/c they are out of state and the state didn't much like that. So she's back to "just" her own 5.
I faint too when I think of it....when I think of how hard Eamon has been on me and how glad I've been, in retrospect, to have only him so far...definitely humbling for me.
I'm a little excited for a potential part-time job for my hubby. He sent in a resume yesterday, and he's already received a personal email back from the hiring/human resource guy. (Not one of those canned email responses they send out to all applicants thanking them for their interest blah blah blah, but an actual personal email. We could hardly believe it when we saw it.) The job pertains to traveling to area Home Depots and making sure items are displayed properly, priced properly, and changing the displays if needed to comply with or exceed Home Depot standards. He has over 12 years of management experience in retail (Lowe's and Big R) so he's certainly qualified and VERY knowledgeable. The hours are very flexible, so it would fit in perfectly with his appraisal work (what little appraisal work there is right now). OMGosh, I pray that he gets this job. We need it in the WORST WAY! Everyone please say a little prayer that he gets this.
Good luck to hubby, go hubby, go hubby, woooo!
Sometimes I think doctors think of tests to send people off to....like they get a commission for every test they refer to.
Jeez, if only hubster had found one of THOSE people in the last 3 years!
Testosterone. The doctor sent my prescription to a compounding pharmacy so it was made for my low level. It's also supposed to help sleep problems. The normal level is supposed to be 60-150 and mine was 37.
Interesting.... Did a quick google and it seems to show that low sleep causes low testosterone, but that's in men. So maybe it's reverse in women.
All I know is that it is INTERESTING because Robert has always needed almost no sleep. When I met him and we got to the point where he might have been sleeping next to me, I used to wake up to him looking at me sleep, because he really only needed 3 hours of sleep. And here we are, with him having a level of 40... And he can't even take plain old testosterone, because taking that, his endo says, would cause him to be totally sterile (temporarily), which would be the exact opposite of what we're trying for, LOL.
Cheryl, I haven't scrolled back to what exactly we're sorry about, but I assume one of your pets is no longer...I'm so so sorry. And he even had a family name on my dad's side...sniffle sniffle.
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Could someone come by and help me organize? Robert's about to start a new job (yes! again! and it's even
amazon! again!) so he'll be of no help, but we'll likely be moving in September and I do NOT want to move crap again! I have to organize things!!! Especially b/c I have to sit and figure out the healthcare stuff...bills that have yet to be billed, bills that need to be paid, and projecting forward until the end of March to figure out what plan we should sign up for. We'd finished up his deductible with the old plan, we've been on COBRA this month, then of course August we start again, with the SAME company, but we have to start over, argh. Trying to work out premium cost vs deductible cost etc etc etc..I'm so disorganized that I can't even figure out what I need to figure out!
However, Eamon finally finished his Kumon 3,4,5 y.o. number book, numbers 1-30. Yay! And I say "finally" because he started it 1.5 years ago, when he started insisting that he get workbooks. Nutty boy.
I wish you were going to be here too. BTW, I used that $20 Disney bag with wheels on my trip and it was great. It holds more than many of those rectangular bags because their wheel gear takes up so much interior space. It doesn't always wheel perfectly smooth, but hey, for $20... (this promotion may still be on - if you buy $50 of Disney stuff at DL, you can buy this for $20).
I'm having such a hard time right now. I don't miss anyone yet but I'm so homesick I'll just randomly start crying. I went to the service at Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Santa Barbara (I think Roy Disney got married there... it was the Episcopal church in Santa Barbara) and I recognized the song that the organ played at first and it made me cry. I sang in the church choir at home for years and I had to try so hard not to sob. It's weird because I'm not a big crier, let alone a public crier. I'm just so outside of my comfort zone right now. I hope things get easier when classes start, which is tomorrow morning. Then before I know it I'll be living it up in DTD with some of you!
Then I met my DH 6 months after moving there and as they say, the rest is history!!
. Have fun with Stacie & look forward to hearing about how it all goes.
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