Well, after spending a looong time on the phone trying to get in a state leave of absence from work, I was able to get 6 weeks. Which, Jeff will be out of town come my return back to work date. So, I called back in and whined, and got another 2 weeks. And that was the maximum they'd give me, because I hadn't hit my 1 year there for FMLA. The main dilemma was, anytime I was supposed to go back to work, I had NO childcare. I've worked as a daycare lead teacher and know that kids get everything in daycares, more power to the parents who have their 6 weeks old in the infant room.(Trust me, I had a sinus infection from hell for over a month earlier this year) But, I'm not going to do that to either of my kids.
So, last thursday, I went in there, grabbed my pictures I had up on my desk, name tag and all the works. And went and said goodbye to my supervisor and resigned. The plus to my story is, Jeff and I are supposed to move in January as well. So, I wouldn't have been able to really stay there in the first place. Anyway, I felt bad for leaving, but everyone knew about Landon and the complications I've had, so it wasn't too bad.
Good thing is, I'll get to stay home for the first time in about...almost 5-6 years, and come March when Jeff is home from his trainingin FL, I'll do something a couple days a week while Jeff watches Landon.
This is all actually good, I had to leave Leena with a sitter (and she was in the same school I taught at too at one point) when she was little, and she had such a hard time, but there were alot of reasons for that, but I don't have to worry about that with Landon, NICE! I'm actually excited, cause Jeff is supportive about it.
Woohoo!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Caution
I've been meaning to post this, but I've been a space cadet with recent events.
I was on leave of absence from work, and was watching Oprah on Monday or Tuesday. The topic that day, child rape.
She started off with an "instruction guide" made by child molesters, passed onto other child molester, of how to rape little children. Some as young as 9 months old. It was horribly graphic and sickens me to think there are people out there that would do that to innocent, sweet children. I don't think there was a dry eye in that audience. I know I got teary too. It's just horrible, and there are so many people doing it, that get away with it. Some people kidnap children to do those horrific things to them, and becase it's such a commen offense (how horible is that, it's COMMON!) it takes too long to press charges. So these men and perverts that harm innocent children, walk free. Most offenders, are someone that you know. I know that in WA state, there is an online link somewhere that you can check and see if there are registered sex offenders living on your street. That's nice and all, but not enough.
There is a new bill out designed for harsher punishments, and dedicate more funding to track these guys online, and punish them. Alot of stings have been done, but they can't get everyone. if you ever have some sort of porn on your computer, the local law enforcement has access to it, as well as child porn. They will arrest you if you get an excessive amount of child porn on your computer. Anyway, there is a new bill out that needs to be passed, I don't think enough people know about it though.
Here is the link to go send a letter to your local congressman/woman. I know I'm sending mine out after I'm done with this. Child rape shouldn't be a "common" crime.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
So, find your state, and email both of the senators, please!
I was on leave of absence from work, and was watching Oprah on Monday or Tuesday. The topic that day, child rape.
She started off with an "instruction guide" made by child molesters, passed onto other child molester, of how to rape little children. Some as young as 9 months old. It was horribly graphic and sickens me to think there are people out there that would do that to innocent, sweet children. I don't think there was a dry eye in that audience. I know I got teary too. It's just horrible, and there are so many people doing it, that get away with it. Some people kidnap children to do those horrific things to them, and becase it's such a commen offense (how horible is that, it's COMMON!) it takes too long to press charges. So these men and perverts that harm innocent children, walk free. Most offenders, are someone that you know. I know that in WA state, there is an online link somewhere that you can check and see if there are registered sex offenders living on your street. That's nice and all, but not enough.
There is a new bill out designed for harsher punishments, and dedicate more funding to track these guys online, and punish them. Alot of stings have been done, but they can't get everyone. if you ever have some sort of porn on your computer, the local law enforcement has access to it, as well as child porn. They will arrest you if you get an excessive amount of child porn on your computer. Anyway, there is a new bill out that needs to be passed, I don't think enough people know about it though.
Here is the link to go send a letter to your local congressman/woman. I know I'm sending mine out after I'm done with this. Child rape shouldn't be a "common" crime.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
So, find your state, and email both of the senators, please!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Family
We had gone to infinity and beyond, and because Jeff leaves on Tuesday, for a month, we wanted to go see Leena and all my family one last time, before Landon is here. He'll be here in a month! Leena got a new bird, Sunny. Because the last one died, very suddenly. So, Jeff anytime he is there, works hard to get the bird to not be so freaked out. And his effort paid off! He got him to eat out of his hand, which is a rather big break through. Leena had gone to a carnival with her dad last night, and gotten a little bird whistle that you fill up with water, and when you blow on it, it sounds like a bird. Well, while we were playing with it, the brid thought he'd respond back! It was too cute!
This is my doggy, Kimmie. She's so cute and sooo loving! My mom picked her out because she looked alot like my grandmas dog growing up, Triska and Frosty. She's getting old, but still around!
While we shopped around in Anacortes, we picked up some really nice fabric that was supoer soft and cuddly. Well, Jeff picked it out. His mom is like quilt queen, and he helped my mom sew a blanket for Landon. He made me promise not to post this, but I can't help it! It's too sweet!
This is Leenas new bird, Sunny.
This is my sister, Hillary. Who, has been playing the piano for 16 years or so, and looooves that baby grand my parents have! She plays really loud though...she's deaf in one ear, has a hearing aid for it, and won't wear it. That stinker.
This is Hillarys boyfriend, who decided to tackle Jeff. Jeff maybe "little", but he can whoop anyones butt if you let him! I think the football game inspired it.
Cute little Leena!
This is her, I don't want my picture taken face.
Awwww, Jeff and Leena
She took this herself! HOW CUTE!
This is my doggy, Kimmie. She's so cute and sooo loving! My mom picked her out because she looked alot like my grandmas dog growing up, Triska and Frosty. She's getting old, but still around!
While we shopped around in Anacortes, we picked up some really nice fabric that was supoer soft and cuddly. Well, Jeff picked it out. His mom is like quilt queen, and he helped my mom sew a blanket for Landon. He made me promise not to post this, but I can't help it! It's too sweet!
This is Leenas new bird, Sunny.
This is my sister, Hillary. Who, has been playing the piano for 16 years or so, and looooves that baby grand my parents have! She plays really loud though...she's deaf in one ear, has a hearing aid for it, and won't wear it. That stinker.
This is Hillarys boyfriend, who decided to tackle Jeff. Jeff maybe "little", but he can whoop anyones butt if you let him! I think the football game inspired it.
Cute little Leena!
This is her, I don't want my picture taken face.
Awwww, Jeff and Leena
She took this herself! HOW CUTE!
Deception Pass, WA
We finally got a new camera! Yay! And not to mention, a rather good deal on it because it was the last one left! So, we made a trip to Deception Pass up near Anacortes. It is about 3 hours away from us, but that's including ferry rides and all that skippy funy stuff. We thought it was going to be nice, but we were wrong, of course. Fall has made it's debut here the past couple days with alot of rain. Anyway, here is part of the saga from Deception Pass! We went to see my family afterwards, so I'll post some of those as well!
This is the Deception Pass bridge, it was really overcast and rainy, but it's a pretty cool sight!
A better one
The Puget Sound, complete with LOTS of little islands everywhere
See the funny white looking thing, that's an otter! There are alot of whales and otters in that area.
Deception Pass history, the currents are really strong, and it was discovered by a man by the last name of...Vancouver! Whod'a thought?!
Jeff and I
Me...I have a no pregnant pictures policy, so I tried to divert the attention at the last minute. I know, I look silly!
And, Jeffy. He really liked it up there!
The both of us.
After going to Deception Pass, we got in the car and realized while we were so close by, that we will go check out Anacortes, it's right on the Puget Sound a small town america kind of place. We saw this funny guy, and had to take ahis picture!
This isn't a crude joke to laugh at, it means Anacortes Sewer System, silly.
They had this painted wooden cut out, I think on every side of any building throughout the while city. Notice the flat tire, and broken axle. After this, we visited the family.
This is the Deception Pass bridge, it was really overcast and rainy, but it's a pretty cool sight!
A better one
The Puget Sound, complete with LOTS of little islands everywhere
See the funny white looking thing, that's an otter! There are alot of whales and otters in that area.
Deception Pass history, the currents are really strong, and it was discovered by a man by the last name of...Vancouver! Whod'a thought?!
Jeff and I
Me...I have a no pregnant pictures policy, so I tried to divert the attention at the last minute. I know, I look silly!
And, Jeffy. He really liked it up there!
The both of us.
After going to Deception Pass, we got in the car and realized while we were so close by, that we will go check out Anacortes, it's right on the Puget Sound a small town america kind of place. We saw this funny guy, and had to take ahis picture!
This isn't a crude joke to laugh at, it means Anacortes Sewer System, silly.
They had this painted wooden cut out, I think on every side of any building throughout the while city. Notice the flat tire, and broken axle. After this, we visited the family.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Oh goodness!
I think Landon REALLY wants to make his debut! I had horrendous back pian, to the point that I called in and took a week off of work. There were some other things going on too, but we don't need to hash those out.
I called my Dr, just because Leena was a similar situation, I had horrible back labor, and she was bon almost a month early, and 7 hours after it started.
Docto told me to go and get checked out to make sure everything is ok. So, I went to silverdale to Harrison Medical Center, come to find out. I've been having some contractions here and there, and I'm dilated just a cm or 2. Needless to say because I didn't feel contractions and was'nt having them withing a couple of minutes
Long story short, still hurting in my back, but meh. It happens. And, I'll be stunned if I have him this early. He needs to wait about a month, then we're good!
Poor Jeff, when I told him about it all, he seemed worried! He's been on the ship for a couple days and will be home tomorrow, but he's been dedicated about checking in on me to make sure I'm ok. We'll see what happens! I think it'll be a while til he's here, I hope!
I called my Dr, just because Leena was a similar situation, I had horrible back labor, and she was bon almost a month early, and 7 hours after it started.
Docto told me to go and get checked out to make sure everything is ok. So, I went to silverdale to Harrison Medical Center, come to find out. I've been having some contractions here and there, and I'm dilated just a cm or 2. Needless to say because I didn't feel contractions and was'nt having them withing a couple of minutes
Long story short, still hurting in my back, but meh. It happens. And, I'll be stunned if I have him this early. He needs to wait about a month, then we're good!
Poor Jeff, when I told him about it all, he seemed worried! He's been on the ship for a couple days and will be home tomorrow, but he's been dedicated about checking in on me to make sure I'm ok. We'll see what happens! I think it'll be a while til he's here, I hope!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
6 weeks left! Too bad it feels like 6 months!
Jeff and I had 2 ultrasound appointments today. One was the 4D with a referral to check up on Landons kidneys, and the other was with my doctor, to check on development. We made the trek over there this mornign, including getting up on one of our few days off these days.
We go to see Dr. Case, who does the 4D ultrasounds. He was alot better than the last guy we had, very detailed and thorough. He told us about 5 times "He's such a beautiful baby!" Which, I must add, he is REALLY cute just based off of what we saw. He has cute little chubby cheeks and my nose and long fingers. I have a hunch he'll be looking like me. Hopefully Jeff is ok with that!
Overall, Dr. Case said he's normal and his kidneys are fine, and to ignore that the previous doctor had said anything about it. Which, was nice.
His head is in the 83% percentile, oh eesh! Leena was 95% so I think I'm ok with that! They did say his legs, length wise, were small. But given his parents, with a dad who's 5'3 and mom who is 5'2, it was normal. He's healthy and all that, yay!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Our poor car!
We had an ALMOST typical weekend.. I say almost because Jeff and I have a "brand new" 2008 MazdaSpeed3 we bought last Nov. Not even a year old yet. That car is Jeff's baby, until Landon is here.
We decided to stay teh night on sat. at my parents house. Which, is in Redmond, world headquarters of Microsoft for those of you who don't know where that is. Anyway, they live in a really nice neighborhood of overpriced houses and what not. RARELY ever any crimes. I remember over the past 11 years we've been here, the house got egged once (cause a guy I broke up with decided to get revenge in HS), and my brother Cody's window got a rock thrown at full speed into it, which they ended up replacing 2 windows in his car his jr year of HS. Other than that, it's nothing like San Bernardino, where cars were constantly stolen and alot of crime in general. (Our house was robbed by drug dealers when I was 15)
Anyway, so we parked the Mazda out front of my parents house. Hillary had gone to the Evergreen State Fair, and so it was just our silver car outside. It was incredibly hot that day, so my parents had left the bedroom window open that night. Jeff and I go to bed around 10. Wake up at 5, and again at 8am. Jeff goes outside for some reason or another, and notices something...
The front passenger window appeared to him, to have been rolled down. He asked me if I had rolled it down after we got home from a family outing with a friend that was in town fron British Columbia. I said "no...we came in and went to bed, remember?"
he went back out and looked again. This time, just INTO the car.
Someone had smashed out our window!! In probably one of the safest communities in the county! I was so pissed and suprprised! We've had that car all of 9mos. Downfall was, the one night my mom and dad open up their windown, my mom took an Ambien to sleep! So the slight noise she would've spring to her feet and looked out the window, she didn't because she took some sleep aid. And, Hillary was off at the fair, and didn't even know it had happened until we told her.
Here is the shocking and yet "upside" to the story. If I am tired, my purse and everything stays in the car, like it did that night. Whoever broke out the windown, was just doing it to be obnoxious or it was some punk kids who broke into their parents liquor cabinet and were looking for something to do, saw our little car, and bashed it in and called it good. They didn't take my purse, which had the KEYS TO THE CAR in them, my ATM cards, checkbook, you name it. As well as Jeffs big old fancy ipod he had sitting in the center console. We would've been heart sick if it had been stolen. But we were not happy about a window being busted out.
Cleaning it up wasn't as bad as it could've been. We have tinted windows, so when theybusted it, it came off in a piece vs millions of tiny pieces. However, they really did try hard to bust it because the interior of the car has alot of scratches on the inside, and on the paint.
So, Jeff is taking in the poor broken MazdaSpeed3 in tomorrow to get fixed. I'm sure they'll do a good job on all the things that got damaged.
The last part was, we left Redmond around noon on Sunday. The MINUTE we get to downtown Seattle, there is not only a mariners game (which makes for HUGE traffic delays) but I have NO window and it starts to dump rain! So, we took the mystery hoodie that was in the car already, and draped it over the inside of the car so it wouldn't get as soaked.
Only in Seattle!
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