Topic: Hodge Podge
Wednesdays are slow at my work. It's my Monday and the work load begins to get hairy on Thursdays - because the weekend is quickly approaching. Did I tell you I now work for the newspaper? I completely and totally love it! I compile this website and on the weekends I do obituaries. Both facets of the job are very interesting and I can't really decide which I like better. Both are creative and use my computer skills & creativeness, triplefold. I lucked into this job. Truly lucked right into it and now I don't want to do anything else. Things do happen for a reason. My Mom was a firm teacher of this and in positive thinking. I've always believed her and this is yet another example in my life of the truth in this statement! I "fit" so well with my new job!
Things at home are well. I have Monday's & Tuesday's off and mostly spend those days doing housework and my crossstitch or reading. All of the things I truly enjoy. Both Kevin & Samantha are off doing the school / work thing and I love love love having some time to myself. I work weekends, but I enjoy my work, so it doesn't much matter.
School lets out in a week and a half, 8th grade on the horizon! Where did this school year go? As you can see from her Spring school picture, she is growing in leaps and bounds. She's not my little girl anymore... she is quickly approaching womanhood. She will be in high-school & then graduating before I know it. She is already talking about working at the end of this year, when she is fourteen. I'm not sure what the legal age to begin work is in Virginia, but I'm thinking it is right around fourteen. I'm not looking forward to being a Taxi-cab but this too, is on the horizon.
Samantha will be going into 8th grade as a cheerleader! She tried out a few weeks ago and made it. She is so very excited. I think back to when I tried out, and didn't make it and am releaved that she didn't have to live through the let-down that I did.
Kevin & I are up & down, as usual. He is a Taurus and I, Aries, the Ram. In case you didn't know, Rams & Bulls tend to lock horns. All in all things are, well though.... as long as we each compromise... which I admit is sometimes hard. I haven't yet informed him that Samantha is having 5 girls over for a going away sleep-over for her best friend Kayla on Friday night. Today is Wednesday, I know, and I guess I have to break the news to him this evening. I try to pick the most ideal time, the best mood possible, for telling him things like this as he is likely to not be thrilled, yet at this point in the game, unable to stop it. Slightly unfair of me, I know, but we each must work our way around obstacles.
I still love my farmhouse! Especially on Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, while it is spotless due to my days off. It quickly goes downhill by Thursday and I have to deal with a mess thoughout the weekend, while I am working. But I am working and Monday soon follows again, Thank Heavens!
We have a new German Shepherd, Toby. He is a BIG boy at only 6 months old. Our cat had kittens too, but we only ended up with one of them. She had three but the first was stillborn and the second died last week. She was sick for about a week and wouldn't feed of Mommy, so Sami and I were feeding it with a dropper, but regardless of how much we would feed it we watched her get weaker and weaker. There wasn't much else we could do except make her as comfortable as possible until she fell asleep for good. RIP again. I feel like animals are dying all around us. Believe it or not, but Toby & Tabby get along like best friends! Toby is also quite protective of the kitten!
Everything else is well! I swear to do better with my posting, I promise!