Hello Friends!
I am sorry to have kept you hanging. The acquisition at work has been nothing short of a blessing. But I have been SOOOOOOOOO busy. I get to work at 8 (ok 8:15) and all of a sudden it's 5. That is good. But tiring. And exciting!
I did lose my General Manager title. I am now Operations Director (previously Operations Manager so its still a step up). And I am happy with that. That is what I truly do here, it fits in my head and in my heart. I make sure the day to day goes well. I do it well and am recognized for doing it well. I have taken on some other responsibilities and I like them.
Husband was so unhappy with previous management. Which was hard because I was part of the management but I had no say and things were a bit weird. We wouldn't talk about work cause it made me sad that he was unhappy and admittedly I didn't handle it as gracefully as I should have. He was job searching and I didn't want to know because I felt like in my position, I knew our lead (only) developer was looking and I should tell someone but then I would be breaking marital privilege and if I did tell he probably would have been walked out and we need his salary.....it was yukky. For a long time. So we had come to where I knew he was looking and I knew he had interviews and meetings with recruiters but no details other than that. And we just kinda lived on edge. Then the acquisition happened and now we work for a global software publishing company. Husband is now one of
26 developers and is working for the type of company he was looking to work for! He called all the recruiters and told them he was not looking anymore! Rides home are good again. We can talk about work again. There is no more uncertainty. It is good.
And guess what!? As part of this, he needs to go to Headquarters overseas to meet with the main development team, and so do I so, they are talking about sending me at the same time! How cool is that? No date to travel yet but it may even be before the holidays!
All this happened right before we headed to South Dakota for a family celebration. My dad had gone out the week before to spent time with his brother in Nebraska so he and that family met us there. My mom, who doesn't have as much vacation time as my dad, drove with us. The boys did great in the car. We did 3 hours on Thursday night and 5 on Friday morning. Spent Friday late afternoon, all day Saturday and Sunday with family celebrating, visiting, seeing and doing some things in town and having a wonderful time. My cousins who were there are aged 17-25 and they were all sweet and inclusive with my boys, I am so blessed. As part of the celebration, on Saturday, my aunt arranged a chuck wagon catered meal with the food all cooked in dutch oven right in the coals for the family and their close friends. So yummy and it looked cool too.
Here are my boys at a beautiful park on the SDSU grounds on Sunday.
We drove the whole way home on Monday with only the last hour and a half being awful. Truthfully,it wasn't all that bad we just all wanted to be done in the car. Here are the boys at a rest stop as we headed home. A welcome sign:
Tuesday we all jumped back into work, and.... J ended up with strep . Here he is at the Dr., one sick and sad little boy.
On Wednesday, the sitter called me and said she had strep. Crap! So I took Z in for rule out culture (cause he had been so exposed and had a weird cough) here he is at the Dr. Thankfully, no strep!
My goal for the rest of that week was to NOT go back to the Dr. Sadly, by Sunday, Husband had a weird stomach thing and was cramping so badly he asked me to take him to urgent care. Sigh! It was just a flu, but man I'm over it!
On to better things. I have a third grader! Who insisted on wearing this on the first day! Handsome!
We are settling into the new normal of this school year. J is playing soccer (shhhh: I don't think its his sport. He wants to be goalie so he doesn't have to run so much!) and has joined Cub Scouts. And of course there is immediately a fund raiser. Here he is proudly wearing his new uniform and selling his stuff to a few close friends in my moms neighborhood.
Oh an I also had another rummage sale to try to sell the rest of our baby stuff. The one we had in July was a great learning tool. I knew how to better display and it wasnt a holiday weekend. All the big baby stuff that we are done with is gone. (ex: we still have 2 strollers but we are using them.) We are down to 3 bins of really nice baby cloths that I will try again with next summer. I donated some stuff and there is visable space it the basement!
OK, I'm done. Whew! You are pretty well caught up and can see why I have not been on here in the last 6 weeks. Holy Cow that was only 6 weeks!!!!!! :) Have a great day everyone!
