Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Can't let it happen

I just read the fire departments letter in the paper...

As a firefighter's fiance it worries me that the city administration is not hiring more firefighters & is making them work short handed. Not to mention talk of a part volunteer department.

That compromises the safety of our firefighters AND the public. If you live in Marshalltown, call your council persons & tell them to keep our department a FULL TIME department!


http://www.timesrepublican.com/page/content.detail/id/527861.html

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Time flies

This week Hunter started kindergarten...

Class every day... All day...

He was excited. Me? Not so much. I'm not ready to have him gone all day, in his big kid school. It was so quiet without him, Ian played quietly by himself and then curled up on the couch with Emily and I.

Another big milestone - he rides the bus everyday. I'm still not sure I'm okay with that... I worry for him on the bus. Granted - its the elementary bus... But there can be really mean kids. I never liked the bus... Too scary... I don't like letting someone else be in charge of the safety of my kiddo.

Hopefully it wont last forever.

I miss my babies.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Hmm

Everything is coming together perfectly...

Weird.

Friday, August 6, 2010

A wedding vs a WEDDING

When I got married the first time I was 17.

My parents had to sign a permission slip in order for me to get married.

I got married in a courthouse, by a judge I knew - I went to elementary school with his son, with 5 people in attendance.

I was 3 1/2 months pregnant, a junior in high school & didn't have the time or money for a bigger wedding.

When I got divorced and Curt and I started talking about a wedding I had the typical giddy "I get to have a giant wedding" thoughts.

I don't know anymore.

I can see walking down the aisle of a church on my dad's arm in a big ballgown dress with a couple hundred of our closest people watching...

I can also see walking down an aisle made of maybe 50 or less of our closest people, in a nature center overlooking a lake and timber... Geese walkin around in the background and all...

I don't know what I want. I don't know if I can make a big wedding happen. I don't know if I can make a little wedding happen. I suck at organization. I suck at planning things. Details aren't really my thing.

I've got 13 months to figure it out.

Craaaaaaap.

The other one.

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A new blog as I reach the unfat me :)

One day closer

It is one day closer to me going back to work

I am dreading it

I don't want to leave my baby. I don't remember it being this hard to leave the boys when I went to work.

Maybe it is because I know it is about 99% sure that Emmy is my last baby.

I don't want to miss anything. I love rocking her to sleep at night... Watching her stare at me as her eyes get heavier and she slowly drifts off to baby-dream land.

If there was anyway I could just quit and stay home I would.

OH. Plus - with Hunter being in school full time this year & the way our custody schedule is...

I'm only going to see him mornings before school & 2 nights a week every other week.

Depressing. He had better come visit me at work. A LOT.