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свети минаПравославни икониSo I’ve officially gone “back to work”. For the last ten years I have worked as a contractor and it’s been great. Moving from project to project and usually working an average of 4-5 hours per week. I recently accepted a position to work part time in a virtual office. It’s the coolest thing – i work from home, we all communicate via email, phone and chat and I’ve never met anyone face to face. I will travel occasionally but most of my work can be done remotely, which is perfect. Not everyone can say they get to work in the their pajamas if they want to. 
I love what I do but I’m not going to explain it. It would probably bore most of you to tears and I refuse to put you through that. The kids have adjusted to having someone here watching them 20-25 hours per week and they are fine with it. We hired a part time nanny (which is really just another name for a babysitter who drives your kids places) and she was great to have around….for a while. It was nice having someone to drive the kids to and from school on my work days and to and from camps this summer. But we had to say goodbye to Ms. T last week.
Women’s intuition is a powerful thing, in my opinion, and it is not something I ignore. My “mommy gut” started going off and while it is possible I was wrong, it wasn’t a chance I was willing to take. I don’t think she’d ever intentionally hurt the kids or put them in danger but I do feel strongly that she lied to me about where she and Matthew were going to go. And that is just NOT OKAY with me. Number 1, don’t lie to me. Number 2, NEVER lie about what you are doing with my child. and Number 3, DO NOT LIE TO ME!!!
I wasn’t able to catch her in a lie but I knew in my gut that she was lying. My best guess is that she was planning to take him with her back to her house and that is also not okay with me. Because I have never been to her house…because I don’t know the people she hangs out with…because I don’t know her 9 and 12 year old sons….because I don’t know her boyfriend, who works nights and is home during the day. Bottom line, when I say “don’t” with regard to my child it simply means “do not”. I know she didn’t end up going anywhere else but I’m pretty sure it is because I pressed her a bit about where they were going. She was taking him to McDonald’s to play and I confirmed with her which restaurant she’d be going to. She knew I was suspicious. Anyway, she was at the McDonald’s because I checked and God help her if she hadn’t have been there.
At the end of the day, if I felt it necessary to check up on her then she shouldn’t be watching my kids. Period.
Oh, and then there was the time she called Carter a liar. Granted, he was lying to her but still… you don’t call a 7 year old a liar. Oh, and then she lied to me about it. And I know she said it because Carter repeated it verbatim and it was definitely her wording. Anyway…. sigh. it’s hard to find people you can really trust to take care of your kids. I’m back to younger babysitters but i’m more comfortable with it.
Everyone makes mistakes and deserves second chances. But not with my kids.
Redneck Pride
Posted July 10th, 2011 at 3:56 pm. 1 comment
The other day I was getting ready to take a bath. Wait. I have to give you a little background information.
Our bedroom door does not lock. (another 10 year project) Instead of locking it, we use a baby gate on the inside so if someone opens the door, they only get it open a few inches. BAsically, it buys us time to realize someone is going to come in. Not that we’d be doing anything …… nevermind.
So I’m getting ready to take bath and have already secured the “lock” on my door. Suddenly, I hear screaming and hollering, which is not unusual in my house but this time it was Big Daddy-O doing the yelling. He comes busting through the door and I think someone must be dying. And then I begin to understand what he is saying, “I’M ON THE INTERNET!!! IM ON THE INTERNET! I’M ON THE INTERNET!” huh?
We were watching Monster Truck Youtube clips on my Ipad with the kids and they kept it up after I left. Daddy-o was clicking on the links that show up on the side, you know… suggesting videos to watch. On in particular caught his eye; it should come as no surprise to anyone that it was called “Redneck Pride”.
It’s funny enough that he chose that one to watch, but it is freaking HYSTERICAL that HIS PICTURE was one of the pictures highlighted in the video. Seriously. No lie. I can only imagine the only way it got there was the owner/maker/whateverer googled “redneck” and came across my blog. Scary.
This video was just a series of photos and he was the 6th photo. So, not only does my husband have his picture in Redneck Pride, his picture is in the top ten. Now that’s what I call the REdneck Hall of Fame. Daddy-o was so incredibly proud and wanted me to post it on Facebook and email all our friends. He even wanted me to submit more pictures.
Sigh. I love that redneck of mine.
By the book…
Posted July 3rd, 2011 at 12:42 am. 4 comments
Has it really been a year and a half since I have written a post? Time flies, eh? So what could possibly pull me out of my extended hiatus? Are we moving? Nope, staying put. Adopting again? Nope, been there done that. Pregnant? I certainly hope not.
I should be embarrassed (I wonder how many times I’ve started a post that way) to admit this, but I’m not. It’s typical life in the Ebenezer household….the procrastinating, that is. Back in August of 2006 I wrote this post about the bed breaking. For those of you too lazy to click the link, the fact that I said I posted about THE BED BREAKING should really get your attention. Anyway, that was in AUGUST OF 2006 and a few months ago I needed one of those books. Then I got tired of sleeping with my feet slightly more elevated than my head so I asked Big Daddy to finally fix it. And he did. He put the book back.