Mamaranting’s Weblog

Just a quick post to say goodnight.  I’ve been busy here since I got home from work-had a quick nap, played with the girls and went grocery shopping.  I packed up some mini-photo albums to take with me to work tomorrow.  I want to get them sorted and start thinking of scrapbooking layouts for them.  I have to keep myself busy.  The atmosphere is suffocating!  Morale is so low, and no-one thinks that it’s because of them and their gossiping.  Blah!  I just try to keep out of it, and keeping myself busy is one way to do that!

What?   I should maybe work to keep myself busy?  Yeah, I guess that would work, but my main job is to answer phones.  If no-one calls in, there’s no work to do!

Anyway, goodnight!

So, I put a little blurb about myself, but I thought I’d introduce you to my family.  I’ll call my husband Hubby from now on.  He’s 30-something, a tradesperson and the love of my life.  He’s an amazing father, I love him even more now that I see how he is around the kids.  He makes me laugh, cry and scream (in both good and bad ways!  )

I’ll call my oldest Sweet-Pea.  She’s 6 going on 30, very mature and serious.  She loves animals, Webkinz and her friends.  She loves anything that makes her seem older-argh!  She is very smart, and takes French Immersion in school.  She’s got this great little french accent when she talks french, and even rolls her Rs!  She loves reading and playing Scrabble.

My youngest is Princess.  She’s 3 and is my little monkey.  She can’t stay still, so much so that I am starting to worry about her and school, but there’s lots of time for that!  She loves her Polly Pockets, Ponies, and dress-up stuff.  She idolizes her big sister, but doesn’t let her push her around just the same!  She loves to help me cook, especially bake.  She doesn’t like shopping, much to my dismay!

I just noticed that there’s a spellcheck on this thing.  Cool!!!  Maybe now I won’t make so many spelling mistakes. 

My 3 year old got SO excited when I told her that I wasn’t going to be working anymore!  She was jumping all over the place!  She’s going to have a hard time going to school, she’s been at home with me all her life and she’s perfectly happy with that situation.

I phoned the car loan place today, and we’ve got 3 more months left on our loan!  This month we paid off a large consolidated loan that we had too, so things are looking good financially!  Hopefully we’ll be able to buy a house when we move!

I’m off tomorrow.  Not sure what we’ll do yet, but I won’t answer the phone that’s for sure!

Warning:  Major whining will occur.

I gave notice at my job today.  I know I complain about it lots, and I wanted fewer hours, but I didn’t want to leave it altogether.  My hubby got a better job, working more hours, leaving it pretty much impossible for me to work.  I don’t want to leave my job!  I like working!

For the past 4 years or so, it’s been all about HIS work, HIS schooling, HIS plan.  Which, admittedly has been OUR plan as well.  Well, last spring he finished his training.  Finally.  We worked long and hard, but it got done in the timetable we wanted.  I was just hoping that this year it would be about me.  I suppose it is, because it is my plan to move across the country, closer to the ocean.  Sigh.  I can’t wait until I get settled into my plan.  I can’t wait to go back to school again.  I am so looking forward to it!  In my spare time at work, I constantly look at the different schools in the area where we are going to move, looking at the programs and courses.  I loved school!

I’m having some online discussion with a lesbian friend of mine who has just had a baby by artificial insemination.  Herself and her partner are having the typical new parent arguments-about sleeping, feeding, possible spoiling, that sort of thing.  It’s nice to hear that same-sex couples go through the same arguments and issues that heterosexual couples do.  Nice and sad at the same time.  Sad because it means that you never escape it either!