next figurative lemon. for the last 6 weeks, at no fault of his, michael has been without work. not unemployed but not working. their job they were working on was shut down. it's a long story & for the sake of me ranting & raving about it, i will try to make it as brief as i can. michael's boss & the homeowner they were working for, i'll just call them sally & lucy for namesake, have been in a...how do i put this nicely? a month & 1/2 girlie-man cat fight. it's been a long battle between smug egos & conforming to the authorities. lucy refused to have a building permit & sally went along with it. six weeks ago, for lack of their official title, the building permit police showed up on the job demanding the permit. when they couldn't provide it, they shut them down. so now it's been a proooooocccccccccceeeeeeeesssssss to say the least!!! and mike just went back to a full day of work last friday. so now, we are playing catch up...big time! i even started looking for jobs again with that fiasco going on, which wasn't even going to be an issue until maybe oliver was 1 or so-ish. but, we just weren't sure how long we were going to have to wait for the go ahead back to work...& to our dismay, had to survive on very minimal income! we threw around the idea of just living in our cars down by the river ;) i am trying to make light of it, but really i am seriously sad. now that we have the relief of mike getting to go to work everyday, we have had to reorganize everything, including our trip back to holstein we planned for the end of august. we weren't even sure that it was going to even happen anymore. but oliver & i are 99% sure we will still be able to still make it. my cousin is getting married. we had oliver's baptism planned & we were going to have michael's father's day photo shoot! and now, although mike is being financially responsible by forfeiting his ability to go home...it saddens me. i had to postpone his baptism and the photo shoot. now the two of us will travel back....alone...which brings on another whole bag of wet diapers. i have no experience in air travel with a nine-month old! and...since we will most likely be taking off out of aspen, we will have a layover in denver... so, i will gladly offer you all the lemonade you can handle for your advice on that obstacle, because we're kind of swimming in it! but on the other hand...we are moving back up the hypothetical valley.
but i don't want to completely make this post a bummer, let's end on a more funny note...oliver loves loves loves to play with the pedals of mike's bikes. we try to deter him from that, but you tell a newly-cruising exploring near nine-month old not to do it. we will be putting the bikes on the ceiling!!!
i mean...why wouldn't you want to play with this?!
another new item in o's life is organic apple puffs. we are working on tuning the fine motor skills of his forefinger & thumb. he's gotten better, but he still sometimes gets the puffs stuck on his hands. or else he just licks them & places them on the carpet or mom's shirt...& then she runs errands with puffs unknowingly all over her =)
so when life hands us lemons...
all we do is turn to this guy & all is better =)
Oh Leyna, so much in a post. Life IS rough sometimes, but you're doing the only thing you can....and that's to keep going!
ReplyDeleteAs for the sleeping routine, the naps won't come until the night sleep does. God, we used to put the boys in bed and go sit outside on the front step so we couldn't hear them cry. Literally....we would shut the door. Because at the end of the day, it's the best thing for them. They need their rest, and we need our sanity. Don't worry.....he won't hate you for it ;-) Hang in there.