The Search Is On!

I am actively looking for full-time employment, after years of being at home with the boys.

Now, a lot of you would say "Wait! You worked at Tom's clinic and you managed Joi", but that was on MY TIME. I could come and go as I pleased. Now, I am on THE MAN'S timeclock.

This has been far more stressful than I thought.

I am not worried about finding a job. That is actually the easy part because I know I can answer phones, schedule appointments, type.....pretty much anything that working in an office requires.

What stresses me out is my kids! Nick has handled the news well, but he is a little unsure of being at home from 3:00 to 5:30, alone. I think, that once we get into the swing of it, he will be fine. He really has NO idea how much homework he is about to have dumped on him. Plus, he has to practice piano and OF COURSE there are video games and TV....JUST IN CASE! ha!

Jacob, that is who is stressing me out. I will have to look for before school and after school care. Right now, his school offers onsite care, but after school is full, so he will have to BUS over to another campus. How nuts is that? He was in tears when he thought he would have to go to a daycare. So, I am actively looking for somewhere for him to go, before and after school that is an activity based program and not a "sit down, watch tv, and don't talk" program.

Here's hoping!

A Girl Named Steve

I am Steve. Actually, I am Jen who was nicknamed Steve. Stay with me:

This all came about through my oldest sons best friend, Eli.

Nick, my oldest, and Eli have been friends since first grade, (they are currently going into 6th grade). They have been attached at the hip for 3 years. Eli is, in my eyes, one of my old children. Nick calls him "brother from another mother."

So, during baseball 3 years ago, I found out that Eli's family calls him Schmee. This is from Eli Schmeeli. So, we have called him Schmee for 3 years.

Eli spends a lot of time at our house. There are times I have wondered why he doesn't have his own room, but what fun would that be? Right? Pallets on the floor, staying up late playing XBOX, sleeping in......you get the picture.

One day, about a year ago, Eli was at my house. He comes into the kitchen and says "I think I will call you Steve now." I am so used to unusual statements coming out of his mouth that I didn't even react. I just said, "OK." From that day on, he has called me Steve. It has become such an ordinary thing that his family calls me Steve. Nick & Eli's class called me Steve. So, I am now a girl named Steve.

I strongly believe I was named after the Hedge on Over The Hedge...."We will call it STEVE!"