Archive | April 2007

Spring Has Sprung FINALLY!

Apr16

Every second Monday my mom has the day off so today she and her rather aged dog met us at the apartment and we took a nice long walk downtown. We were gone over 2 hours, walking all over downtown, eating an early lunch at Subway, dropping off food for Ken at the office and then stopping off at the dollar store before heading home. It was great exercise. Mom and Rikki walked with the double stroller and I took Emanuel. I had a $10.00 coupon for the dollar store so I picked up the Finding Nemo balloons and punching balloons for the twins’ birthday party in May – there were not many left as well as got some scrapbooking stuff. The kids were really well behaved, Emanuel slept most of the time.

I am surprised though not even an hour after we got home the kids were all in bed, even Emanuel. He has had a rough weekend, we thought his cold was improving and then he got this watery cough. So I called Health Links last night and they want us to take him into the clinic to see if he has some sort of added virus that needs anitbiotics. The walk in starts at 5 so we are dropping the twins off at mom’s and taking Emanuel. Hopefully it is something simple. He is not that sick the cough is just rather rough on him. Poor baby.

Ken’s cousin Ann had her baby this weekend – Dixie Rose – 8.75 lbs, 22 inches long emergency c-section. I can’t wait to see pictures! So after I finish mine and Ken’s Easter eggs and one of the Christmas Precious Moments I have already in the hoop I will put lettering on the one I have premade for a baby and send it off. After that I have to start the one I am going to give Alan’s sister… Christmas gifts are not coming along very quickly when people keep having babies.

Add to all of that trying to go throug all of our stuff to get rid of the stuff we REALLY don’t need, starting to pack and working on finishing little projects that I really to not want to have to restart once we move. Today I have been working on making my secondary copies of my picture cds – I got a cheap little cd case to keep my second set seperate from my master. So much going on and the weather turning nice… you know life is actually feeling more… even.

I am really enjoying using Facebook. Karyn introduced me to it and man has she gotten me good and hooked. She was up this weekend, we had great fun, doing a little shopping, going out for McD’s for breakfast on Sunday. It was so nice to have company. Especially with Ken being a little out of sorts with all the major changes and stuff he is in the middle of. Poor man, he doesn’t want to leave the guys at GWAVA in the lurch and is so excited about going to Computronics. It was so not an easy decision to put his resume in in the first place. We really wanted to stay with the office and Ken really enjoyed working with the guys… sometimes it is hard to do what is best for your family above all else but it must be done.

This week is not overly busy, Ken is looking for a rental for us, I am trying to get sorted out and the kids are ready for summer! Hopefully tonight I will be able to get the twins’ invites made and some packing done. Karyn brought us some boxes when she came to visit – the office she works at just moved. I really do not want to have to scramble to move. Ken did try to take the bottles in this weekend but they were closed so hopefully next Saturday we will get that done too.

What a life… so much change going on and yet so much the same!

Big Changes Coming…

Apr13

As of today it is official – Ken has given his 2 weeks notice here in town at GWAVA and on the 30th of April he starts in the city at Computronics! It is a scarey, exciting and necessary move. We really didn’t want to have to leave the company and Ken’s office – he does like working with the guys here, but if we didn’t we would slowly be getting deeper and deeper into debt. This new job has a substantial pay increase and lovely benefits and as time goes on he gets more holiday time each year! There are even whispers of him being in a supervisory position someday and the cahnce of us going away for a year – Alan works for the same company and for a year he worked in Charlotte South Carolina!!! That is really close to my dad!!! This does mean that we are frantically hunting down a rental closer to the city so Ken does not have that over an hour commute each way. It also means that in May I am in charge of basically all appointments the kids have. At least I can easily walk to the twins’ dentist appoinment and I called my mom to see if she could meet us there to help control the masses. There is Emanuel’s scheduled boosters in August that I am not sure if I will be able to schedule at a clinic wherever we live. Course Ken could always drop us off for the day at my mom’s and maybe she can take a day off?? So much to work out and plan and an apartment to pack up, people to contact, a church to find… the list goes on and on.

I am so proud of Ken though. He is rather excited, this job has alot of possibilities where in GWAVA there really was no where to promote TO. Ken is a junior programmer here and basically that is what he would stay. It has gotten to the point where we really need to look at this from a logical point of view. If we do not increase his wage we are looking at going basically bankrupt, he has not been happy at GWAVA for a while now – so many things not going the way he had hoped so this is the oppprtunity to do new things and actually make a wage where we can cover our debts and get this… in 6 months get a MORTGAGE! Can you believe it?? We could buy a property!!! WOW I honestly felt like we would never reach that point. So we are looking for a rental we can stay at for a minimum 6 months as we work to get rid of our credit card debt (student loans and the like are not a problem it is those little cards that are the buggers that get you) and then we can look to buy a place!! Frankly at the point we are at now I really thought that would not even be an option for decades.

The weather is finally getting nice and I am starting to really see how trucking all 3 kids outside is going to take motivation… there is something about strapping 20 lbs on my back and pushing 60 lbs in the stroller that is just not a huge motivator. What I wouldn’t give for a yard! I did put Emanuel in the double stroller and the twins on their harnesses and walked to Ken’s work and back. Took me 30 min each way and the walk home was sooo slow! But we did it and I feel good about it. It would be easier with the carrier but it was nice to work those little legs.

Tonight is our celebratory dinner, mom is coming over to watch the twins and we are treating ourselves to Noodle House mmmmm. I am looking forward to it.

UGH

Apr10

Ok so I have had one of "those days"… This morning the twins were rather grumpy – ok they were all out three years old. Emanuel has been fussy with his teething and toys were a point of contention all round. Zander went so far as to put his mouth on Emanuel’s hand like he was going to bite him. I was furious. I thought we were done with the biting….

Ok so off to nap goes Emanuel after nursing. The twins eat their lunch and off to nap for them… or they should have. Emanuel wakes up from his nap and I have been in the twins’ room at least 3 times. The last time they had yanked some clothes out of their dresser and were running wild. I fed Emanuel and hear a weird noise – I went in to look and they had somehow torn a tiny piece of plastic off the mattress and gotted it into the fan we had put in their room so it was making a weird noise ARGH. So I had to remove the fan which caused Gavin to go into melt down mode. I moved him back to the bed from in front of the door twice and ignored the screaming… during all of this the neighbors downstairs were blasting country music (what is it we get what seems like a truce noise wise with the people upstairs and now it is downstairs???). So I go to call to vent to someone and THE PHONE IS NOT WORKING!!! Ok fine I msn Ken and get no answer so I run down to get the mail and what is down there? A fair sized phone bill but no cut off notice. I nudge Ken on msn and he says he had worked out with them a payment plan and it should not have been off… but it is! Ken does not have time to call Telus right now so I am phoneless… and frustrated. Someone wanna tell me when things get easier? Ken has the cell so I am on my own til after 5.

I just feel like having a great big CRY! Hopefully everything works out tonight. At least Ken is taking care of it. Makes me feel really good to have him step in and be in charge. Somedays I really miss the easy moments of high school, where the money I made went to clothes and junk food. Now the money Ken makes goes to diapers and babyfood.

On a positive note Emanuel signed "please" today. He is so cute when he signs. Now if we can just work out those teeth.