Our Week

Here are the things going on this week as well as some of my thoughts

• Little man has daycamp at the local Y.M..C.A. camp near our house. It has been so much fun and they do some really cool activities. So far he's went swimming twice, went on a pontoon boat ride, went in a canoe, read stories, sang songs, made GO.OP, dug for hidden treasure, played with Play,-doh, made a bead necklace, and went on a pony ride, just to name some things! He's having a great week and it's nice for us to get a break from him sometimes too, change of scenery is nice sometimes for everyone.



• R had his interview on Tuesday and it went well, but like I mentioned before they ALL seem to go well. They aren't done with first round interviews until next THURSDAY! (why, o why do they have to take FOREVER???) So the earliest we would hear anything would be probably the 10th of August.



• I'm so ready to be done babysitting but we need the money so bad that I'm fortunate that I have this opportunity, though, several times per day have to restrain myself from beating my head into the wall. The little baby just cries all the time. The mom is pumping and giving breastmilk and the baby just has gas ALL the time. He just screams for long periods of time and my patience is running really low mixing that into our crappy situation, it's a recipe for disaster!



• On to our crappy situation. We don't have enough money to pay our bills. What are we supposed to do? Well actually it's R's bills that we don't have money for. I'm pissed because all summer he could have been working a minimum wage job to prepare for our upcoming situation but he didn't. He applied at minimum wage jobs but I think he should have beat the pavement a little harder trying to find something! I don't know how much longer I can put up with this situation. I waver between trying to stick up for him and being so utterly pissed off at him. It's a really crappy situation to be in.



• I hate the government. I've been trying to get ahold of someone for the past three days because obviously since I got a job the kids aren't going to qualify for the current health insurance that they have. I need to call and explain our new situation and probably fill out a new application for another program. However, if I fill out the new application without talking to someone then the application will automatically be denied because I have another active policy. Just a big run around :(

• I finished reading this book this week and it was really good but it also reminded me that things aren't really that bad and all that really matters is family and love. It definitely put things in perspective because one of the characters had cancer and she was only 31. I'm 29, it scared me. My mantra in life is "things could always be worse." I guess I really should feel VERY fortunate that all we're dealing with is a lack of money for a short period of time. All in all I'm picking myself up once again by the bootstraps and trying to plug along to brighter days, I mean our situation will get back to "normal" one of these days, at least that's what I'm hoping for!

Have a great weekend!!!!!!