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Okay well I passed my drug test...and am going back to work full time (35 hrs / wk) with Department of Human Services (DHS) in the administration branch, accounting department, doing A/P.

I'm very excited about having a job with great health insurance...this past summer I've wracked up a good $3K worth of medical bills from the Er visits, illnesses, etc. (and still paying on last years)

So...I'm looking at the positive; I get a retirement account, great insurance, 24 sick and vacation days / year PLUS Holidays. And a job that I don't have to take home...no more cell phone calls to ask me about a client...no more working till 11pm and then starting at 7am the next morning. I'm assigned a portion of the alphabet and I enter those vendor invoices and set up for payment...how easy..a boring data entry job will suit me to a T. I get an hour for lunch?! That's awesome, I've always had to eat at my desk, while I worked.

This is a great blessing for my family...as we all know I am a young chicken and I'll be able to retire in 30 years...making me 58. And I'll be able to help give my kids more opportunities (Jacob's soccer and Kobie will soon start Bass guitar lessons- he doesn't want gymnastics and who knows what D wants to perssue).
I get off at 4:30...so I'll still be able to help with homework, cook dinner, do the laundry, etc. And w/ Jacob practicing 3 days / week I can still get in my exercise.

I will still work for mom's clients the 1st two weeks of the month for extra $ to pay off these bills.

Now the downside...SUMMER (If you have any ideas for summer let me know.), and I know I'm going to be shell shocked b/c I haven't worked F/T in over 6 years. I won't spend as much time with the boys as I have been, but I'm hoping the future time is more Quality time.
If I look down remind me to look on the positive side, there are far more greater things this job offers than the downside.

I'm excited about the future and what it holds...this is a new chapter in our lives.

**I've spent this week doing all the odd chores around the house to get myself reorganized and ready to start work...I was very organized before I stayed home ...I've repaired the mortar in the brick, re-screened the screens in the window that have holes in them, re glued the boys car board, liquid nailed the crawl space screen shut, etc. I've got one more day to get this stuff done before "the church leaves the building".

Shin Dig

Well the older two boys have made it through the first part of school without bad behavior and terrible grades. They were awarded their Shin Dig, Carnival Themed, Kobie's first. All the kids had fun.

Here are their silly face paints.

Dylan has made every fun Friday. I do not think he has gotten a card pulled. He is very quiet in school and out around everyone, but don't let him fool you, he talks NON STOP.

Dinner & Update

So I had another interview today with DHS...will know something by Monday evening.

Tonight I made dinner after soccer practice; we ate a dozen eggs, 1 lb. of bacon and 1 1/2 lbs of hash browns.

We all had fun at dinner complete with my jiggy dance after I named all thirteen colonies which led the boys onto a roaring laughter.

The evening would not be complete without some mishap or something out of the norm. We finished with Dylan spraying Lysol into his eyes and mouth...Lovely.

Off to the debate