new news!

I know.. I promised I would keep this blog updated, and I've been 
failing at that!!!

Here are some updates!

I am not working at the Center for Siouxland anymore! I have been 
working at Touchstone Living Center for about two weeks now as Social 
Service Director. I have many jobs there, and I REALLY love it. No two 
days are the same, and I stay so busy all day that the days fly by! I 
can't believe it's been two weeks already! I am luck that a friend of 
mine is the other Social Service Director (for the other side of the 
building) and she was the one to train me! That helped a lot I think!

Some other news, If you are local to us, you have already heard that 
Stream Global (where Thomas works) lost a big contract recently. It was 
Apple, the one Thomas works for. So as of May 9 he was going to be 
jobless. I say was with a very very happy :-) !!! Saturday Thomas 
interviewed at a z wireless (verizon) store and was offered the job on 
Tuesday. I told him to wait thru the week and then let them know on 
Friday if he planned to take the job. Yesterday he put in his 
resignation at Stream, and planned to call z wireless today or tomorrow. 
He called me at lunch and was VERY happy to tell me that Stream got a 
new contract (I can't say the name of the company yet he said.. but will 
share soon!) and he is VERY excited about this contract, as it is really 
his dream job to get paid to do this activity! (I can say its a video 
game system, but not which one) and that he will be a trainer. He will 
likely be going to Oregon for training sometime in the next month or 
two. The best of this news is of course that he is staying where he is, 
and not losing health benefits! They are incredible benefits, and my new 
job has insurance, but it is not good, and could cost a small fortune 
just to go to a dr until our deductible is met, so I didn't want to have 
to do that. He also won't lose his senority! He said he is #2 on the 
list of all the apple employees of the people they are keeping on :-) 
makes me proud! I know he complains about them sometimes, but I knew 
deep down he wanted to stay there, for both the benefits and the stable 
job. His hours may change, since this new contract is 8a-12a openings, 
but likely he'll have a good schedule since he'll be doing training 
classes.

Graceyn is changing more and more daily. She is getting to be one smart 
kid! She is just over 17 months now! She is saying a ton ton ton of 
words, can count to 5, and does at least 50 signs. We are also getting 
ready for potty training! She is showing a lot of signs that she's 
ready, and the day care lady is pushing to start while she's showing 
interest (and I agree). so we are going to embark on that journey in the 
next week or two. I am very nervous.. but I think she'll do well, and it 
will be nice to have a good break in using diapers! At least until we 
have another kid.. someday! Nice thing is that I won't need to buy many 
diapers, since I will use all of the cloth diapers Graceyn has been 
using! Very handy in saving money!!!