January 22, 2009

Ashlyn looking at herself in the mirror at her great grandparents house in Doniphan, MO
My brother in law and my husband when they were little

Long day at work had a lot of things happening...we may be getting our office back on track and they will not be talking about closing it.

The weather has been nice but we are expecting another winter storm on Monday.

There is a lot going on with my youngest daughter and I cannot even begin to put it in this blog. It is wearing me out emotionally, spiritually, and physically. I am just so tired of her drama.

January 14, 2009

Ashlyn decided that Samantha would make a great horse.

Long day at work and I am worn out. I will try to post more tomorrow.

January 13, 2009

Ashlyn decided that she had to have a picture made of her blowing on ribbon...needless to say Mama took that away fast.

Today was my first dayback to work after having a couple of days off...remind me to never take time off again...the woman who covered for me and who works the evening shift had made a mess of so much stuff again and instead of having her fix it I had an email waiting for me when I got to work to all the person who is over us so that she could tell me what Pat had done and that she wanted me to fix it because I fixed it the last time Pat did something similar. Now they are threatening not to let her handle the money at all or to do any posting. It made for a day that was really long but it did go by fast.

Ryan missed me a lot and he let it be know that Mama was all that he needed when I got home from work.

Worst Weekend of the New Year

Here is what the minivan still looks like after almost five days of work on it...yes, this is the minivan that we were supposed to use for our trip to Hot Springs...we have had to buy so many parts for it already that there is not much money left for the week.

Supposedly...I am going to Hot Springs this next weekend...the only thing is I will not have any extra days off...so it will basically be a trip down on Friday after I get off work, spend that night, and come back late Saturday so that hubby can go to work on Sunday...his vacation ends Saturday.

I am so frustrated because I arranged to have two days off work and I have to request them almost a month in advance and there is no way I can request more for this month.

I got on the computer and found out what my husband needed to do to repair the minivan and printed it off for him...but he had to try all of his fixes before he tried the one that I told him was wrong...each one of his quick fixes cost us money...then just about an hour ago he came and told me that he had broken a tool that he needs to finish the job and he had to go buy it plus two belts that he had messed up.

Hopefully, this minivan will be worth all of this when we are done.

Fourth Day

Pictures of Ashlyn and Ryan wearing a hat that Samantha found while cleaning her room. Ryan thinks it is so cool and funny to wear a hat and Ashlyn thinks that she is the cutest thing ever while wearing the hat.

Well, my hubby is in WI on his way back...driving the moving van with my son's belongings in it...his older brother went with him...he should be back home late tomorrow afternoon and my son should arrive about the same time...according to my son the moving van can only travel at the speed of 55 in IL...so that is why it will take my husband longer plus he has to drop his brother off at his home.

I had to work today and again the person that covers the shift after I leave was ill and did not come to work. There is no way I could put in a ten hour day and then come home and have to take care of the kids so we closed the office again at 6 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. The boss was not too happy about it...when my hubby is home and able to be with the kids I do not mind staying until ten (Friday's are one of the days of the week that he has off).