Baby Kelsi is adorable!
I have had such a busy day today, but I will close it out with a post.
It seems that my MIL WILL be moving with us. After much thought and deliberation we are pretty positive that she will join us on our adventurous move and I cannot be happier about the decision. I just spend the last 2 1/2 hours on the phone with her and I am so jazzed right now...even thought I should be sleeping. (I have to work at 9am at the JCC)
I will be helping her select and consult an attorney for her divorce. I feel priviliged that she is asking me for my help in this very personal situation. It not that she isn't strong enough to do it on her own...but I am sure she figured that if someone has "been their, done that, and then burned the tee shirt" they could help her out with some experience and dare I say expertise, then so be it.
Okay, I need sleep now. Bed is calling...
Living the dream: What goes around comes around. That's so profound. (Hey, that rhymes! Yeah, it's REALLY time for bed.)
Monday, June 23, 2008
Yeah Baby!
My friend had her baby last night! A baby girl...and I was one of the first people that they called so I could come in and take pics of the baby! Off to Carroll Hospital Center before I pick Ty up for the week. This was SUCH perfect timing. She wasn't due until July 2nd, but she had other plans :)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
*Life is Good*
Yeah, it's looking pretty good these days. I wish I can explain why...but I am sure if I try I will still forget something.
Ty has just been a blessing. It hasn't been totally easy around here for me these past few weeks for various reasons and when he sees me upset he doesn't even ask if I am okay...he just says to me..."Oh Mom, don't be sad, do you want to hear a funny joke?" and then he doesn't wait for my answer and proceeds with some funny thing that comes into his head and then he laughs at himself while he walks away. Man I wold love to live in that head of his for a while.
But everything just seems to be falling into place. Just everything. I came home tonight after taking Ty to the aquarium and the inner harbor today to Nate on the computer going thru a list of hospitals in Florida. Like me, he always goes over board that way, when a decision is made there is no room for regret of "what if" questions lingering in our brain. We pretty much had Tampa pegged. But Nate only eliminated hospitals in the northern part of Fl, (not great scuba diving anywhere up there) the panhandle, and the eastern part as well. So we kind of broadened our search to the Gulf Seaboard all the way down to Naples, but after he visited literally ALL the hospitals websites to see their statistics on open heat procedures and the number of beds they have in their cardio vascular ICU (if they even had one) we are still pretty sure it will be in the greater Tampa Bay area. I would love Clearwater or St. Petersburg too, so this will all work out. Nate had to go into work tonight at 11pm (the reason he didn't go with us to the harbor today) so he's gone now :(
My atty officially filed for a motion of default on Randy's part and apparently she has only heard from Randy's atty once since then and what he said would happen still hasn't (this was over 2 weeks ago) so we have pretty much determined that his atty could give a damn and hopefully if this goes just a weeeeee bit longer the court will proceed without him!
If THAT wasn't enough good news for me, then the fact that heard from Randy tonight telling me that he is getting kicked out of his newly leased house is just the sugar coated top to our plan to provide a better life for Ty. After his foreclosure he will NOT qualify for a mortgage and he won't be able to go to some managed property apartment complex to rent either. Man I would hate to be him right now. He gave me a b.s story about how his landlord (ex girlfriend) owes her parents money (like 80 g's) and so she will be selling the house ( in this market, to who? Who knows...it SAT on the market for over a YEAR before Randy moved it) but you can still be a tenant in a house that is listed on the market, so with Randy telling me that he needs to leave for THAT reason screams to me that the reason is a lie.)
So, in light of all of THAT news Nate and I have decided to cease all discussion with Ty about US moving in a year since he REALLY is going to need the stability of us. Up until now we have been talking to him on an almost daily basis about it so he was prepared for when it happened. But that's okay.
Ty's RSVP's for his birthday party have been VERY positive...it should be a BLAST! I can't believe that SO many people can come on a tuesday night. There is going to be like 20 kids here. ( I hope it doesn't rain!)
Nate and I are going to Cedar Point Ohio for my birthday...this should be fun! So I am excited about that. Their roller coasters seem to be the bomb. Can't wait.
I absolutely HATE my new job for SO SO SO many reasons, but I will suck it up knowing that it's temporary. It's funny...everything I thought I wouldn't like about it is perfectly fine...and everything I thought I would like, I don't. It's interesting. But I will spare any details on that for now.
Nate has been working so much that we have been banging off so much debt I am excited to think about how much money we will have once all the crap has been paid off! I can't wait to buy a house in Florida! His sign on bonus would cover the down payment and the relocation assistance should cover some more too...YEAH!
I am pretty beat from the day so that's it for tonight,
Ty has just been a blessing. It hasn't been totally easy around here for me these past few weeks for various reasons and when he sees me upset he doesn't even ask if I am okay...he just says to me..."Oh Mom, don't be sad, do you want to hear a funny joke?" and then he doesn't wait for my answer and proceeds with some funny thing that comes into his head and then he laughs at himself while he walks away. Man I wold love to live in that head of his for a while.
But everything just seems to be falling into place. Just everything. I came home tonight after taking Ty to the aquarium and the inner harbor today to Nate on the computer going thru a list of hospitals in Florida. Like me, he always goes over board that way, when a decision is made there is no room for regret of "what if" questions lingering in our brain. We pretty much had Tampa pegged. But Nate only eliminated hospitals in the northern part of Fl, (not great scuba diving anywhere up there) the panhandle, and the eastern part as well. So we kind of broadened our search to the Gulf Seaboard all the way down to Naples, but after he visited literally ALL the hospitals websites to see their statistics on open heat procedures and the number of beds they have in their cardio vascular ICU (if they even had one) we are still pretty sure it will be in the greater Tampa Bay area. I would love Clearwater or St. Petersburg too, so this will all work out. Nate had to go into work tonight at 11pm (the reason he didn't go with us to the harbor today) so he's gone now :(
My atty officially filed for a motion of default on Randy's part and apparently she has only heard from Randy's atty once since then and what he said would happen still hasn't (this was over 2 weeks ago) so we have pretty much determined that his atty could give a damn and hopefully if this goes just a weeeeee bit longer the court will proceed without him!
If THAT wasn't enough good news for me, then the fact that heard from Randy tonight telling me that he is getting kicked out of his newly leased house is just the sugar coated top to our plan to provide a better life for Ty. After his foreclosure he will NOT qualify for a mortgage and he won't be able to go to some managed property apartment complex to rent either. Man I would hate to be him right now. He gave me a b.s story about how his landlord (ex girlfriend) owes her parents money (like 80 g's) and so she will be selling the house ( in this market, to who? Who knows...it SAT on the market for over a YEAR before Randy moved it) but you can still be a tenant in a house that is listed on the market, so with Randy telling me that he needs to leave for THAT reason screams to me that the reason is a lie.)
So, in light of all of THAT news Nate and I have decided to cease all discussion with Ty about US moving in a year since he REALLY is going to need the stability of us. Up until now we have been talking to him on an almost daily basis about it so he was prepared for when it happened. But that's okay.
Ty's RSVP's for his birthday party have been VERY positive...it should be a BLAST! I can't believe that SO many people can come on a tuesday night. There is going to be like 20 kids here. ( I hope it doesn't rain!)
Nate and I are going to Cedar Point Ohio for my birthday...this should be fun! So I am excited about that. Their roller coasters seem to be the bomb. Can't wait.
I absolutely HATE my new job for SO SO SO many reasons, but I will suck it up knowing that it's temporary. It's funny...everything I thought I wouldn't like about it is perfectly fine...and everything I thought I would like, I don't. It's interesting. But I will spare any details on that for now.
Nate has been working so much that we have been banging off so much debt I am excited to think about how much money we will have once all the crap has been paid off! I can't wait to buy a house in Florida! His sign on bonus would cover the down payment and the relocation assistance should cover some more too...YEAH!
I am pretty beat from the day so that's it for tonight,
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Ho Hum...
We have had a very busy time here lately, but nothing too extraordinary to go into vast detail with.
Last Saturday Nate and I went hiking in Great Falls. It was very hot, but a lot of fun. It kind of felt like we were in Fiji again...when we hiked up the mountain. I managed to only fall once...but I have a hefty bruise on my knee and shin to prove it.
Sunday I started my new job. I think I am going to like it. After all my hesitation and anticipation of how bad it was going to be, I think it will be fine. It helps A LOT to know that this is only temporary. But by the end of my first shift the manager explained that I will be making $.50 more an hour then she initially quoted me when she hired me. I guess she was impressed.
This past monday we picked Ty up and then headed to the Country Club to go play in the pool. Ty discovered his mask and fins and snorkel. I am very excited by this, that means he will be interested in snorkeling excursions when we go on trips!
Tuesday we all went to Hershey Park...Me, Ty, Nate, Jenn, her kids and Mom. It was fun! I actually somehow acquired a tan on my face, but my legs are still pasty...I even broke my "no shorts" rule. Bummer.
Wednsday we relaxed. Period. But I did call the landlord about an unpleaseant odor that seems to be coming form somewhere in the dining area. I had gone thru the entire kitchen looking for something rotting or festering and was unsuccessful. I thought I had singled out the air conditioning unit, so I called him and told him that it smells like there is a dead animal in it, and he came over and insisted that it was the carpet...so when I told him that we have had several reoccuring stains he called his pro carpet cleaning lady and out she came and we got our whole first floor pro deep cleaned! That was awesome!
Then this morning we met up with a bunch of Ty's preschool buddies and we bowled for about 4 hours before I drove Ty down to his fathers house.
Phew. I am exhausted just thinking about how much we have done!
Last Saturday Nate and I went hiking in Great Falls. It was very hot, but a lot of fun. It kind of felt like we were in Fiji again...when we hiked up the mountain. I managed to only fall once...but I have a hefty bruise on my knee and shin to prove it.
Sunday I started my new job. I think I am going to like it. After all my hesitation and anticipation of how bad it was going to be, I think it will be fine. It helps A LOT to know that this is only temporary. But by the end of my first shift the manager explained that I will be making $.50 more an hour then she initially quoted me when she hired me. I guess she was impressed.
This past monday we picked Ty up and then headed to the Country Club to go play in the pool. Ty discovered his mask and fins and snorkel. I am very excited by this, that means he will be interested in snorkeling excursions when we go on trips!
Tuesday we all went to Hershey Park...Me, Ty, Nate, Jenn, her kids and Mom. It was fun! I actually somehow acquired a tan on my face, but my legs are still pasty...I even broke my "no shorts" rule. Bummer.
Wednsday we relaxed. Period. But I did call the landlord about an unpleaseant odor that seems to be coming form somewhere in the dining area. I had gone thru the entire kitchen looking for something rotting or festering and was unsuccessful. I thought I had singled out the air conditioning unit, so I called him and told him that it smells like there is a dead animal in it, and he came over and insisted that it was the carpet...so when I told him that we have had several reoccuring stains he called his pro carpet cleaning lady and out she came and we got our whole first floor pro deep cleaned! That was awesome!
Then this morning we met up with a bunch of Ty's preschool buddies and we bowled for about 4 hours before I drove Ty down to his fathers house.
Phew. I am exhausted just thinking about how much we have done!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Oh yeah, it's time to go...
Have you ever made a decision, or have had a decision made for you and finally by the time everything is coming to a close you have signs pointing directly to you that it was in fact the time to move on? Well, I am having one of those days today.
It's my last day as a full time employee with the company. I will stay on the roster for an "as needed" employee...but today is the day that if it wasn't my last before I started the day, it probably would have been anyway.
I have had a horrible day. You know, it's funny...when I started orientation with the company I was going through the orientation paperwork with procedures on how to do things on certain types of calls. One section caught my eye...and it was the cardiac arrest procedure. I ever verbalized that even though I had been an EMT for years before I have never had to deal with a DOA (dead on arrival) or a cardiac arrest. And no sooner I said that, our pagers went off for a cardiac arrest.
I don't know why age necessarily makes a difference, but with the probably 100 or so DOA's or arrests that I have been on with this job it doesn't seem to matter so much when they are 90 years old, their spouse that they were with for 50 years dies back in 1980...you know, it's almost like it's their time. But then there is the other extreme.
Fast forward to today, Sunday's aren't typically busy, so I just came back from what might be the last call I run with the company as a full time employee. A one month old cardiac arrest. Man I am so ready to leave this place.
It's my last day as a full time employee with the company. I will stay on the roster for an "as needed" employee...but today is the day that if it wasn't my last before I started the day, it probably would have been anyway.
I have had a horrible day. You know, it's funny...when I started orientation with the company I was going through the orientation paperwork with procedures on how to do things on certain types of calls. One section caught my eye...and it was the cardiac arrest procedure. I ever verbalized that even though I had been an EMT for years before I have never had to deal with a DOA (dead on arrival) or a cardiac arrest. And no sooner I said that, our pagers went off for a cardiac arrest.
I don't know why age necessarily makes a difference, but with the probably 100 or so DOA's or arrests that I have been on with this job it doesn't seem to matter so much when they are 90 years old, their spouse that they were with for 50 years dies back in 1980...you know, it's almost like it's their time. But then there is the other extreme.
Fast forward to today, Sunday's aren't typically busy, so I just came back from what might be the last call I run with the company as a full time employee. A one month old cardiac arrest. Man I am so ready to leave this place.
Maybe not...
Okay, so Nate and I drove to VA yesterday to start going through and sorting the 20 some years of "things" at his mothers house to prepare for this move. We figured, if we can make it down there once a month, that's still only 12 days to go through an entire house of stuff to pack and sort. It was weird because his father was there and the man has no idea what's coming to him...but he never even asked why we were there ALL day om the basement going through containers and boxes.
So his mom and I go out to get dinner and on the way to pick it up we start talking. She kept dropping hints that she though one year would be too soon for her to leave. I was totally like...if you know this is happening, if this is what you want, and you have an entire YEAR to get things in line, what's the problem? Plus I told her that Nate has it in him that she going with us, like it or not. He feels that she needs a push and doens't want to leave her in VA alone.
Well, me being the person that I am was VERY nieve to her hesitations until it hit me. I suddenly interupted her in the middle of one of her sentences and belted out..."wait, you are suddenly being insistent on not wanting to go after a few weeks of being gung-ho about this, you met someone didn't you?" And she couldn't contain herself anymore. She was so releived and said..."I didn't want to tell anybody, but yeah..."
And now before me is a 50 year old woman that was so happy and giddy that I couldn't not be happy for her. Listening to her talk about how she is starting to feel feelings that she has repressed for so long made me feel relieved that her husband didn't destroy her forever. They haven't gone on a real date or anything, but they have been talking on the phone and e mailing. It's someone that she has known for 30 some years, they lost touch and then ran into each other by chance. I love stories like that. She really didn't want me to tell Nate because she is concerned about how her children will react to this...so I told him last night to not count on her moving with us just yet because we talked and she has a lot going on...but we'll see what happens.
She wants me to go with her to the consultations that she is making with lawyers. She said she liked the questions that I had for her and she never even thought of asking an atty half those things, and she doesn't want to get screwed. So, I'll go with her whenever she wants me to so I can help in any way I can.
I have to admit, I am kinda bummed because I so wanted her to move with us. I thought it would have been fun. But, things happen for a reason and that woman deserves to be happy, so if this is what it takes then so be it.
So his mom and I go out to get dinner and on the way to pick it up we start talking. She kept dropping hints that she though one year would be too soon for her to leave. I was totally like...if you know this is happening, if this is what you want, and you have an entire YEAR to get things in line, what's the problem? Plus I told her that Nate has it in him that she going with us, like it or not. He feels that she needs a push and doens't want to leave her in VA alone.
Well, me being the person that I am was VERY nieve to her hesitations until it hit me. I suddenly interupted her in the middle of one of her sentences and belted out..."wait, you are suddenly being insistent on not wanting to go after a few weeks of being gung-ho about this, you met someone didn't you?" And she couldn't contain herself anymore. She was so releived and said..."I didn't want to tell anybody, but yeah..."
And now before me is a 50 year old woman that was so happy and giddy that I couldn't not be happy for her. Listening to her talk about how she is starting to feel feelings that she has repressed for so long made me feel relieved that her husband didn't destroy her forever. They haven't gone on a real date or anything, but they have been talking on the phone and e mailing. It's someone that she has known for 30 some years, they lost touch and then ran into each other by chance. I love stories like that. She really didn't want me to tell Nate because she is concerned about how her children will react to this...so I told him last night to not count on her moving with us just yet because we talked and she has a lot going on...but we'll see what happens.
She wants me to go with her to the consultations that she is making with lawyers. She said she liked the questions that I had for her and she never even thought of asking an atty half those things, and she doesn't want to get screwed. So, I'll go with her whenever she wants me to so I can help in any way I can.
I have to admit, I am kinda bummed because I so wanted her to move with us. I thought it would have been fun. But, things happen for a reason and that woman deserves to be happy, so if this is what it takes then so be it.
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