The fun in clicking "next blog."

Lately I have been in a blogger's "block" and I have turned to clicking "next blog" at the top of the page for inspiration. This is really fun and I suggest you try it if you are bored! I have come across some really neat blogs and very interesting stories and it is just a great way to pass the time. What I find really weird is how if you continue to click you will start to see some of the same types of blogs. The past few days have taken me to runners blogs, Chinese blogs, wine blogs, quilting blogs, etc. While I can't really relate to those- aside from the wine ;) -they are still interesting. I have even jotted the page addresses down for future reference. Since I don't have their permission to link them here, I suggest you try it and see where it takes you...

Happy clicking!

Crunch-Time

Well... I believe my time as a stay-at-home-mom may be coming to an end. :( After nearly a year and a half of unemployment, I may be returning to work. While the employment front here in Northwest Ohio hasn't really changed, I do have to find something due to unemployment ending.

While being unemployed, I have scoured the help wanted ads in the newspaper and everything under the sun on the internet, with no avail. While I did come across a few things, I was either too qualified for the position or I didn't have enough experience while other positions were only mediocre. It is now down to crunch-time and things do seem to be looking up, slightly. I have an interview later this evening (odd, I know) but I am optimistic about it.

While returning to work is what most SAHM's dread (I know I do) I do understand it needs to be done, financially. Along with being gone at work for 40 hours a week, I am driving myself batty thinking about Lauren. I know that we have her grandparents to help look after her, but I don’t like feeling like I am burdening them by asking. My mom is retired and I know she would watch her for us, but I can’t ask her to drive 25 miles each way all week. We also have Aaron’s wonderful parents that tell me “don’t stress about it, we’ll figure it out” I can’t ask them to put their lives on hold for our sake. Therefore, I think I might try and find her a part-time day care program so she can interact with other children as well as learn to cope without mom always being around (this is another sore subject for me.) This way, I won’t have to ask others to up-root their lives for our sake.

Back to the topic of leaving her: I. AM. SO. NOT. READY. FOR. THIS. I can only imagine that it will freak her out! I mean, it has been Lauren and I everyday, all day, for over a year and half then to just up and leave her all day, she’s going to HATE me! I know I am being over dramatic because women do this day in and day out and they manage, but for me, I’m still processing it.

Anyhow, here’s hoping… Please wish me luck and send prayer’s for my sanity this way.

Ahh!! A small taste of summer weather!

Holy moley! We all wished for the warmer weather of spring but we didn't expect to have the summer-like days so soon! Every chance we get, we are outside running around and playing! I even have Lolo knock on her buddies’ door (next door) to get them to come out and play!

Since the warmer weather has been coming in and out of the area, we have been taking advantage of it! Lolo is one brave little munching because she love, love, loves water and doesn't mind if it is as cold as ice as hose water usually is. She even puts her face right into it and doesn't flinch. I would like to take credit for this because I have never really baby'd her and it doesn't stop when she is in the tub. Since I was a diver in high school and a fish in the summer I felt I couldn't let me little one be afraid of the water. In the bathtub, the water gets poured over her head and she doesn't react, just holds her breath and then shaky-shakes it off! I love this about her. She has recently taken to laying on her belly in the tub, yes, it took 17 months for her to realize she could do it, and she loves it! She even loves to dunk her face into the suds... with or without moms help. I figured she has to learn sometime... and that sometime is now. You bet I will be teaching her how to swim this summer. I taught swimming to the little ones when I was in high school and those lessons stuck with me so I could pass on to my child (ren).