Here I am! Here I am! I'm back!

I can't believe it's been over a month since my last post! It's been a crazy, hectic past couple of weeks. The biggest reason for my lack of posting is the transition into my new job. It happened quite suddenly. It started with a little joke that I made with a friend who I used to work with. Next thing I know, we're making negotiations, I gave my notice and voila! I've been at the new job for a week now. It's an exciting move on my part. I'm working with a lot of the same people that I started my career with. I'm back in a small agency setting, which is totally fine since I never did get used to the bigger agency life. I'm used to doing all the dirty work myself... I'm not very good at delegating! My former employer was quite upset about losing me but I had to do what I felt was right for me. I finally feel "at home" and am confident that this is the place that I will be retiring from twenty years down the line. Holy smokes... twenty years... at LEAST that. That's a LOT more years of working to look forward to. Darn it.


We just celebrated Desiree's 13th birthday on Saturday (her actual birthday was on Friday) by throwing her a party at my parent's house. She had a jumper AND a DJ - talk about fun times! What a waste of a perfectly good DJ, though. Thirteen-year-olds these days do NOT know how to have a proper garage party. Not like WE used to have them back in the good ol' days. Ah well, we did enjoy the "old school" set that the DJ did. If Jacob wasn't so darn clingy and grumpy by that time (he DID spend the whole day jumping in the jumpy, after all) I would have shown those kids how to get doooooowwwwn! Lucky for Des, her brother wouldn't give me the chance! She had a great time and that's what matters the most! I can't believe she's officially a "teenager" now. Oh boy....


Alana's birthday is on Thursday but she's still having trouble deciding what she wants to do. So many things to choose from - sleepover, Disneyland, party at the park. I can't even remember all the other ideas she had. I think she's leaning towards Disneyland, since she mentioned to me yesterday that she had invited people to her birthday celebration in Disneyland but advised those people that they'd have to buy their own tickets into the park. Alana cracks me up! I told her that she probably should wait to talk to her mom first, before she started inviting people anywhere! Alana's special request is that we do the Disneyland trip together - her mom, step-dad and siblings along with her dad, step-mom and siblings. If it goes through, it will be the first time that both families do an outting together, if you don't count hanging out at parties. Should be interesting.


Katelyn has a hula recital this Sunday. I can't wait! I love to watch her shake her little hips! She's the cutest patootiest! Her thing these days is to ask me what something is. If I don't know the answer, she says "But you're a dult." Not an ADULT... a DULT. She says that me and daddy are two DULTS. Oh man... that girl cracks me up!


And as for my son... well, that doctor's appointment that I've been dreading is tomorrow. Tell me Jacob didn't get sick two weeks ago and did not eat again for a whole weekend. Ok, I'm noticing this pattern. I think what is happening is that he is a TERRIBLE teether - when he sprouts teeth, his body doesn't know what to do with itself. He runs a fever, he stops eating, he's absolutely miserable and cranky for at LEAST two days... three days tops. And this seems to always happen right before a doctor appointment is coming up. Sheesh! My girls didn't even bat an eye when they grew teeth. Just a little bit more drooly than usual but that was the only sign I ever had that teeth were coming. Just goes to show how much more tolerance for pain the female species have over the male. You know how it is. When men get sick, the everything stops and all they can do is lay in bed, moaning and groaning. When women get sick, we still have chase the kids around, make sure people get fed, etc etc. The world doesn't stop for us. Ah well....