This past year of my life has been extremely hectic that I seemed to have lost site of blogging. While Livejournal gets a few updates here and there, the descriptive journal entries are long gone. There will be no more of that. This blog will be my new place to post the fun, tragic, and boring life dealings of my family and me. I'm not a very censored person, and I have strong views on life, health, and family.
I was about to find myself being unemployed by 3:30pm today. However, things made a sudden turn yesterday when I was contacted by a previous staffing company I had worked for about a part-time data entry position at a fireworks company with potential long term. I start soon, so there will be no income gap to worry about where I am currently employed and my new position. It's 30 hours a week, but who can complain about a job when faced with potential unemployment? I certainly can't!
Yesterday I registered for classes at Fresno Adult School. I managed to save a small chunk during my first ever job that lasted just over six months, so we plan on riding it out on my part-time job. In the long run, it will be worth it, but I do admit I got used to not always having to worry about finances like a hawk. They no longer offer Medical Administrative (front office) or Clinical (back office) Assistant, but they do still offer Medical Billing (technically it's called Insurance Billing/Medical Manager at FAS). They also offer Nurse Assistant that I am contemplating doing as well. My ultimate goal is to become a Nutritionist, so more work in the Health Care field the better. I attend orientation next Wednesday, and then I will see how long the waiting list is. FAS is closed for the summer, so I may not be able to get in until after then. I plan on starting a month long course in Quickbooks next week though to continue some education.
What I am grateful that I will be able to spend more time with my family. Elliot is now nine months old, and I feel like I missed a lot of things in the past six months. I was a stay-at-home mother to my older boys, Adam and Danny, and going to work everyday has certainly been a challenge. I used all my breaks and lunches to pump breast milk for him which was the best I could do from work for him. Danny's father and I have joint custody, and he alternates between his two homes each week. While I had the weekends with him, a lot of the weekdays left very little to do besides have family dinners. Adam resides at our home possibly indefinitely which I obviously love. From the looks of it, I will be returning home before Adam gets off of school. But the same goes for the other boys, I feel like I don't get to see them as much. This is of course compared to being a stay-at-home mother where nearly every waking hour was with my boys. I still have a bit of resentment over going to work, but I did get to afford a lot of the things my kids deserved that I was unable to give when I was strictly going to school before and what my ex-husband and I had trouble affording sometimes.
Spending more time with my fiance Adam is obviously on my list of the blessings in disguise from being laid off and only returning to work as part-time Since we first became a couple in February of '09, our life has been all over the place. Sometimes it felt like one catastrophe after another our life but not between our relationship. It's a struggle sometimes to keep a relationship going when the outside world presents many challenges, but in the long run it has made us stronger because what can't we accomplish together? I truly believe that without the bond we have together, we would not have been able to make it through the tough spots. And also because of our love, there is always an upside to all these short comings of life. This goes for the love I feel towards my boys as well.
So, I'm excited to get back out into life and be more spur of the moment and learn to be very frugal yet again. Deciding in the middle of the day to take fun walk to the park for a picnic, spending Saturdays at the Farmer's Market, going on bike rides, being able to go to school functions and field trips, and just in general enjoying the sunshine with my little boys. I missed it. I wish it could be that way forever.
I suppose this makes a good introduction to my life. I will update one to two times a week or more or less. It's not definite thing, but I finally feel like journaling again and to be socially involved online.
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