Long Time, No "see"

My goodness its been forever. I've been lurking on the awesome blogs I normally read trying to keep up. But its hard doing it on the phone.

Not a ton has been going on here. I'm 6 weeks into my new job in sales, specifically car sales and while I'm horrible at knowing stuff about actual cars, I actually didn't flop all that bad in my first month. Selling 5 cars and the goal for the month was 8. So not to shabby.

I really have come to realize that for the most part, its a really boring job. We don't get a ton of clients coming in the door and for the most part, its a hard sell.

For the most part I enjoy my job. I miss my boys especially when its slow and I'd rather be home with them then "wasting" my day. This crazy gorgeous PNW weather is not helping my fever to be home and be outside with my babies.


Speaking of my babies! Carson starts soccer in a couple weeks!!! I can't wait for tiny cleats and shin guards. This is just a soccer class once a week for 6 weeks to get them ready for summer soccer! Now that is what I am excited about!!

Oliver started walking a couple weeks after his first birthday I'm really proud of him. He runs now and is always into things (I forgot I didn't like the into things stage!) I can actually hear him "talking" in his crib.


Until later....I'm so glad to be back to blogging. I've really missed this.

Working moms are super heros

Until I went back to work, I had certain ideas of what life would look like with me working. As I start week 3 of going back to work I am tired, my schedule is weird sometimes. I worked 12-8 today. Tomorrow and Friday are 9-5 and then the weekend is weird. One super long day and a shorter day.

I don't have a ton of time to do much of anything when I am working. I need to get better at blogging during my days off.

During my work week I am getting the kids up, getting them to the sitter and getting to work on time. I'm making lunches and keeping the house up. Chris has stepped up beyond words to make it so much easier for me to not be totally stressed out.

Keeping up with the cloth diapers has actually been easier than I thought. It's been great that the sitter is willing to use cloth and we've been keeping up on the diapers actually better than we had before. I have no choice but to keep up.

Same with the house work, I just don't have time to sit and let it pile up. When I get home I go go go until I crash in bed. I'm so lucky that Chris is really doing his part to pitch in.

First week back

I worked my first week. I sold my first car. I had my ups and downs. I missed my babies. Of course. At the same time, I missed them. Which was great, I really loved getting to pick them up at the sitters.

Picking up my boys is great, I love seeing their little faces and holding them after a day away.

As horrible as it sounds I really like missing them. It's nice. It makes being up at night a little easier when I haven't been with fussy pants all day.

Getting a routine down will be key, I need to work on this. I have to look professional when I get to work. Some how my boys have managed to poop as soon as I'm getting them in the car. That means I have to run them into the house, change them and back to the car. Usually this makes me stressed and feel like I'm running late.

We just have some kinks to work on. But over all after my first week, I'm excited to go back after my "weekend" my work week looks like Wednesday-Sunday.

Also I'm tired and my feet hurt, so I'm going to go hit the sack. Night y'all

First day back...

Today was my first day back at work. I took the boys early to their new in home day care "just in case" they did awesome. I did...fine. I was sad as I drove away. I was leaving my most prized possessions in the care of some one I met with for an hour the week before.

I stopped off at Starbucks because its always do hard to do with the kids. It was a nice way to snap myself out of being sad.

Once at work I did the training videos and learned all about sexual harassment and discrimination.

I'm very excited for what this new adventure is going to bring. It's going to be a really good opportunity for myself and my family.

Silence usually means changes

That's how it goes over here on my blog. If I'm radio silent it means a big change is coming.

The big change is not another baby, thank god we are getting the factory shut down. The boys are amazing and perfect and really we don't want to rock the boat. Oliver still isn't sleeping great and Carson isn't potty trained.

The big change is I got a job. A good job in fact. The choice was not made lightly, Chris' job has been on the chopping block for a while. It's scary to look at our Rent and bills and know that with out his income we'd be screwed. We realistically could not afford to live on unemployment and it would be a lot of stress if/when his site closes. It's looking up now, but you just don't know and it was a wake up call that we honestly need a second income.

I found the boys a daycare. They'll be there 3 days a week and Chris will be home on the weekends and I'll be home Monday/Tuesday. I'm nervous to leave them, it will be a big adjustment. But I'm excited this will bring a lot of good things for my family. Like searching for a new home in 3-4 years. We'll actually be able to save a decent down payment. We'll be able to go on real vacations, and put money away for a rainy day. I'm most excited about house hunting. Getting an idea of what we will be able to buy. I have not allowed myself to even look at real estate for the last couple years because we just were not ready, and while it will take a few years to save a solid down payment. It will be great to be moving forward!

So yeah, there it is. Also my computer is broken so I tapped this out on my trusty iPhone. Excuse any and all typos and sad grammar.

In other news...

My MacBook officialy died. Hence, radio silence. I'm learning to use my kindle fire.

Oliver turned one last week which was crazy!! He's a big kid, 30 inches tall and almost 24 lbs. I have a ton of pictures to share when I get my computer up and running or get a new one.

Carson's health problems are coming to a head and we'll be taking him to OHSU in the coming weeks to see a GI doctor :( I will elaborate more when I start getting results back.

I really need to catch up on house stuff and have just been lazy this week.

Running with the wee ones...

So friday morning I sat down to read some blogs. I've got to say I love being apart of a facebook blogger group. I love having the daily "reminder" to stop and read whats going on with other peoples lives that are also local. But friday morning I came across this blog in the reader, she titled it Controversy Hobby Jogger as I read it I really had no idea that there were people out there that considered themselves "Elite" runners that weren't doing it professionally (are there actually professional runners outside of like the Olympics/nationals?)

As I read it I realized, I don't really consider myself any sort of runner. I enjoy running. I love running with the boys in the jogger, I like running on a treadmill alone. I love listening to music while I run.  I don't run terribly far. I did 2 miles on saturday pushing the jogger with the boys and that felt good. I don't think I'll make my 500 mile goal (I kinda failed horribly already.)

I will say that even after reading the blog post, I was slightly more aware of encountering other runners. I was pleasantly surprised though that while out running on saturday morning I didn't encounter any "elites" I encountered a lot of respect. It was mutual because even being a "hobby jogger" I'm still lapping my former self on the couch, and thats what matters.