Today, I officially decided, after spending 3 full days with the love of my life - the cutest, red headed freckled man on the planet, his beautiful children, and seeing his kids play with mine, that my job is not as exciting as I thought it was, nor do I really make the difference that I thought I might make there some day. Not that I don't make an impact every day, it's just that the job is getting to be too much when your boss sends you home with a lap top to continue working at night while your kids are sleeping so that you can catch up on the 250+ emails I get in the day, but can not respond to because I'm training or answering questions or whatever. Love Chevron, but the re-org in Jan. squeezed the place where I work a bit too tight. Money's okay, but I feel Burnout and Stress coming around the corner soon.... Hello Jack D and Johnny Walker. My J-O-B really is important, but at the end of the day, it doesn't give me any sense of satisfaction or happiness like what I felt this past weekend. I have WAY to many other things I'd like to move forward in my life and do, and maybe find a new job (well, i've not given an update in quite a while.....absent from the blog because of my ding dong job is a main reason). Another super wake up call has been watching my brother raise his middle child, Little P, in Kosair Hospital for the past 3 weeks. Life changer for me. Seeing Little P's fight against Blood Cancer, the strength of my brother & his wife, and their love for each other, has motivated me to possibly wander in a new direction. What? I have no clue. But something that definitely makes a true difference in the world, and makes it a better place at the same time. Okay, enough about me. Job is better, the stress level is high there, but that's life. On to my boys.
Linc has graduated from Pre-K at Kayfield Academy & was accepted into Lowe Elementary for Kindergarten. Getting him into a school outside of our cluster was grueling, but I worked my connections and signed my life away with a commitment to school based decision meetings and the like. Always wanted to do that, I guess. It's outside of the cluster of schools around my city, Jeffersontown, KY, but he won't have to bus and will be 1 mile from where I work. Kelly will turn 2 in a few weeks and is a riot. He got tubes in his ears in April and has been sleeping much better since then, can hear better, and is talking up a storm. His new thing is, instead of going upstairs and taking care of business, he'd rather crawl up onto the Thomas Train table and take a dookie and then let me know about the "poopey". Smarties are not working with this little guy like they did with Linc!!! The boys are both as cute as ever, and love their new Justin. We are just having fun this summer....nothing too exciting going on.
Wedding plans are in full bloom. We are getting married outside at White Hall on Sunday, Sept. 7th - it's a beautiful Southern Colonial White Mansion with a pretty garden to the side, adorning a long walkway of trellis after trellis. I fall asleep thinking about my walk to Justin. It will be beautiful. The flowers and the cake are almost there and we are deciding about our dinner menu. It is elegant, yet simple at the same time. Just like us. We just want a good photographer to take pictures so we can hang them all around the house! I will be taking his daughters out later this week to pick out their dresses and we won't fit the boys for a suit until closer to the day since they will grow like weeds.
Everyone I love is doing well. Little P, you are amazing and I love you. Stay strong because everyone is praying for you. Bro, I miss you but know Darra is taking care of you. Justin, I want to meet your family soon! Love you all.
