I just looked back at this blog a few days ago and realized that my last post happened in April!!! It's now the end of July. Opps! I don't even know where to start. I guess from my last post would be the ideal spot. I really need to do this more. Time to write it in pen in my date-book, because that seems to be the only constant thing in my life anymore. We are crazy busy these days.
In May our principal informed us that we would be taking a 6% pay-cut to our salaries for the 2010-2011 school year. The state cut funding for summer school and since we are required to teach summer school in our salaries, we lost this money. At least we didn't have jobs cut! To some households, this might not be a bad thing. However, my income was (at the time) the only money coming into the house and it was what we lived on. We made it pay-check to pay-check but just barely. This was a huge slam to our budget and the way we were living. Let me just say that Clint is a rock-star and saved the day!
Clint had been thinking for awhile that he wanted to get a part-time gig in the evenings to spice up his daily routine. When I told him about the pay-cut, he kicked it into gear. Everything fell into place, and it was truly amazing. Here's how it went down. We found out about the pay-cut on a Tuesday. Clint applied for a night security job that morning, and received a phone call that afternoon for an interview the following day. He went in for the interview on Wednesday, and was told they had the perfect spot for him. He had a second interview the following Tuesday and was hired practically on the spot. Within a week, our previous worries about money went out the window. Clint would be making enough to cover my pay-cut and then some. We ended up on top!
He now works for Allied Barton here in Kansas City at an upscale condo on the Plaza. He works Thursday - Sunday 4pm - 12am. It is the perfect job for him in so many ways. His boss told him to bring his computer and whatever he was writing to work on because it gets rather quite at the condo after 8 or so (most of the people that live there are older) and it's during his prime alertness time. Being a night owl has it's benefits! The only down side is that when he goes off to work, Dade and I are stuck at home since we only have 1 car. If I want to go out, we take Clint to work and then pick him up. Dade likes picking up Clint from work. He goes to bed like normal and then I wake him up. He gets very excited when Clint comes walking towards the car.
Since Clint is working 4 nights of the week now, our whole bedtime routine has changed and I rather enjoy it now! Before I put Dade in his jammies and Clint finished up putting him to bed. Now I get to do the whole thing. I know that doesn't sound like much, but when you don't get to see your kiddo that much during the school year any moment you get is a precious one.
Most of the summer it's been me and Dader doing things. Clint has taken advantage of me being off work to get a lot of writing done. I've enjoyed this. We have done paintings after paintings, put puzzles together, taken naps together, worked on our ABCs, coloring, racing beep beeps, swimming, reading, and cuddling. This makes it rather difficult to think that in 2 weeks I'm back to work. He's growing up so fast that it's ridiculous.
His speech is becoming easier and easier to understand. Just yesterday he told my dad, "D [that's what he calls himeself] is sad. Mama took [away] my cup and yum [food]." What he didn't tell my dad was that he was playing with said food and cup and wasn't eating. He knows how to wrap people around his cute little finger! He loves going to his "school". He goes 2 days a week and loves every minute of it. He learns so much from his peers and his teacher that I'm glad that we are able to do this. Just today when I got there to pick him up he was singing the days of the week song. I asked him what is today he said "Frog-day" (which made me laugh). I then asked what came after Tuesday and he replied "Wednesday momma." The look on Clint's face when he said Wednesday was priceless. He was like "No Way does he knows that!"
Clint and I are headed to GenCon on Wednesday. I consider this my last summer fling and am quite happy to be ending it in such a manner. I haven't been to GenCon since 2005 and I'm super excited to go. It will be nice to get away with Clint for a few days and enjoy being a kid-less parent. I made Dade give me loads of kisses tonight before he went to bed. I'm taking him to Knob tomorrow so he can spend the night with his Grandma Barb and then she'll take him to my parent's Sunday afternoon. We don't leave until Wednesday for our trip, but this was the only time that we could get him down there before we leave. I'm going to go crazy without him in the house because it will be quiet. I might just let Slinky bark at every living creature that walks by the house just so that I have noise! The longest I've been away from him is 4 days. This will be 8 days. At least I'll be busy in Indy and won't miss him until I'm slowing down. I plan on bringing him loads of huge dice for his dice bag.
I think this post is long enough! I'm also uploading pictures to our Web-Gallery and plan on doing a post that involves some of my favorite pictures from this summer.
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