Kate has been hitting some milestones in the past couple of weeks. About two weeks ago she said "mama" for the first time! Two days later she said "dada."
Then, last Wednesday, Kate signed "more" for the first time! It was so cute! My parents were here & only my mom was awake so I ran out to her holding Kate & told her that she'd just signed more when Kate started doing it again for my mom. I love all of the little things that make us excited when we have kids.
Kate awoke this morning with a new top tooth & while laying next to me after nursing she started clapping. (Maybe she was trying to say, "Yay! Thanks for the milk mom!"???)
Kate also woke up with a cold in the wee hours of Saturday morning - cough, sneezing, congestion. It was going around among the little ones at VBS last week so I'm not surprised she picked it up & she's still sick this morning.
Addison did have a lot of fun at VBS this year, I'll be glad once she's older & can really enjoy it even more. I'll also be glad when she stops being quite so obstinate & will memorize her Bible verse instead of just laughing while working on it & saying one word here or there.
The girls were so cute when I was putting them to bed on Friday night. Ray was already working & I was putting Addison to bed first when she said she wanted Kate to lay down with her & cover up. It was so sweet I had to grab the camera even though it was dark in the room & I couldn't see of what I was taking a picture!
All these late nights have worn out me & the girls. Being gone at night was more of a bummer since we'd come home & start working. Well, Ray did anyway, I scheduled my nights for Tuesday & then 6 hours last night but all of the other nights Ray was on the phones until midnight. I'm pretty sure this job wouldn't be quite so bad if we could do our core hours during the day. However, then I'd miss more time with the girls instead of primarily working while they're sleeping & I definitely don't want that. On the flip side, I'm getting so worn out working so late so many nights (although I hope it's just the extra busyness of the past two weeks catching up to me).
I keep telling myself I'm very thankful we have this job. Which, of course, I am but I think I must be really hormonal right now because it's getting to me. Deep down I'm hating this job & then hating it more than before, but I am truly thankful we have it. I don't now where we'd be without this job as a filler right now. The biggest frustration is that we're having to work so many hours to make ends meet that it's not leaving us time to pursue something that would be more profitable. That's why I think more than "hating" this job I'm really more at a level of frustration. Especially with all of the CPSIA stuff going on, that's really put a damper on the creative stuff with which I was starting to put more of an effort into. Has that affected anyone else or your plans for creative ventures?
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