It's been 2 weeks since i've worked. It's like I haven't been at work forever already but at the same time it's hard to beleive it's already been this long. Not many jobs out there that I qualify for so i'm enjoying my time while I have it. Today was nice getting some grocery shopping done with one helper. And a very big helper he is. He made the big decision about what package of cheese sticks we should buy. When we got to the yogurt section he reminded me that we needed more. Didn't quite understand why we didn't need as much as he wanted to buy though. He helped picking out the ham for Easter dinner. Laughed at some of them because they looked funny, wanted to buy bacon because it comes from a pig like ham does and he likes bacon so it must be the same thing. I obviously don't have ham nearly enough that my son can tell the difference. He wanted 2 big bags of potatoes and was shocked when that's what we got. With 6 of us regularly and extras now and then it really doesn't last all that long and they were a great price. He also got to pick what can of coffee we were going to buy. When we had those things mommy was more than happy when he wanted to look at the movies that were right by the Easter candy so the Easter Bunny could pick up some much needed chocolate. When it came time to pay he was distracted by the till while I put all the Easter candy on, then he helped. The cashier was great and bagged the candy for me - this was at Superstore where you are suppose to bag your own - so that the little Prince didn't see it. When we paid he even helped me make sure everything fit onto the stroller so we could walk home. I did get funny looks having a 3 year old and a stroller. Silly people, the stroller isn't for the kid - it's for the groceries. You can't seriously expect me to carry home all that heavy stuff and keep an active preschooler away from the road knowing that my hands are full. I have baby rings on the handle of the stroller that we unhooked one end and he held them nicely and at times the clip to lock the stroller together nicely, all the way home.
It was a great shopping trip with him today.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Relaxing
That is what my morning was like today. Very relaxing. And yes I did have to get all my kids up for school. I woke up 45 minutes later than usual by a little voice informing me "I have to pee mommy". I turned on the light and went back to bed. A couple minutes later my little prince came and joined me in bed so I turned on Treehouse and all was good. That seemed to have woken up the Princess who said she wanted to wear a dress to school. No big deal. I figure there is no more sleep in mommyland and with only 10 minutes before the alarm went off I wasn't too worried. The boys were awake enough to talk to me when I opened their doors. Their was no battle to get either of them out of bed. They ate breakfast and made their lunches and didn't fight. They got out the door to school and 2 of them had to be called back to get books they had forgotten. Little Prince wanted to play the wii so he did while I looked online for jobs. We had snack and played playdoh. Daddy called and wanted to have lunch together seeing he had an hour break today so off we went. Now we are home and it's quiet time - and he is being really quiet so I don't dare disturb him.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Wonder
A sense of freedom finally. At least for a little bit that is. Today, with my doctors note in hand I let my company know that I no longer work for them. The doctor took me off work until after they close. It's amusing about how a company as big as the contracted one can look at all the people here at my company and say they no longer will have a contract here. They don't really give us any real reason though except it's definately not because we are sending it to where people only make $2 an hour. Yet it's amusing how after the announcement of our center closing they opened a brand new one in Costa Rica - just in time to take all of our jobs. But that's not why they closed us. They won't come out and say anything to us about the real reason for leaving. My center had the best customer satisfaction scores - we made the people happy. Even when they were frustrated not to be calling Canada most of the time they call and to finally get someone here, we made them happy. Now, the customers will have way less chance of getting Canada and they won't be happy. They won't be happy when they can't understand what the agent is saying. They won't be happy when things are done to their accounts without permission. They won't be happy when find out that their company has pulled this many Canadian jobs. They won't be happy when they don't get the savings. They will be happy though when they switch companies. Yet, it's all business why they pulled the plug on our contract. It has nothing to do with customer satisfaction and for the fact that their customers liked us up here in Thunder Bay. For this they can go knowing that they have definately pissed off a huge chunk of their customers.
For now, they did do a good thing, I get to spend some time with my children. Much needed quality time. While of course looking for other employment on the side. I get to play with play doh, colour, play with legos, play ninja turtles and transformers, play in the dirt, play at the park, take my Little Prince to the library, do all the fun things I use to be able to do all day. They have also made my oldest Prince very happy - he gets to sleep in an extra hour. For these things I thank them for leaving us.
For now, they did do a good thing, I get to spend some time with my children. Much needed quality time. While of course looking for other employment on the side. I get to play with play doh, colour, play with legos, play ninja turtles and transformers, play in the dirt, play at the park, take my Little Prince to the library, do all the fun things I use to be able to do all day. They have also made my oldest Prince very happy - he gets to sleep in an extra hour. For these things I thank them for leaving us.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Princess Keona
Tooth number 1 for Keona is officially out - and to think I didn't know it was loose because she never said anything. She did tell me she never checked for a whole week and it wasn't loose but today it hurt when she ate so she came home at lunch. Well the second tooth is loose - but not as loose so should be coming out soon also. She feels extremely proud she holds a first for the family. She is the first child to loose a tooth before her 6th birthday - only by 4 days mind you. She doesn't want Timothy to take that away as she gives a smug grin to her oldest brother who thinks he needs to be #1 for everything. She is one excited little girl.
My princess has also managed to get 3 birthday parties out of me. Not sure how that happened but it did. Her friends one is a Hannah Montana one next weekend with a slight twist if boys come because well you know boys, they may not like that. Parties are fun and what the hey it keeps everyone happy and i've learned to do it well on a tight budget.
My princess has also managed to get 3 birthday parties out of me. Not sure how that happened but it did. Her friends one is a Hannah Montana one next weekend with a slight twist if boys come because well you know boys, they may not like that. Parties are fun and what the hey it keeps everyone happy and i've learned to do it well on a tight budget.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
The Children's Place
They say when you have great customer service you tell one person and when you have a bad experience you tell 10. Well I had great customer service and am going to tell whoever wants to know. Imagine this 2 parents, 4 very excited kids and the mall. Around us is many other children and parents, for it's the last Friday evening of summer and everyone is in a rush to buy back to school stuff. The childrens/youth clothing departments in every store are busy, every children/youth clothing store are busy, and the BTS and office supply departments in stores are busy. Sales people are going crazy trying to keep up and help everybody. Some you can tell are on their last strings and others look like it's a walk in the park for them.
So we venture to the mall when I got off work - in a thunderstorm I may add - because the boys need jeans and the winter outerwear is out in Children's Place and it will get scooped up as fast as it hits the shelves, especially when people are in stores anyways. We walk into the store, I head right with my princess and toddler and Brad heads left with the big boys. Keona was easy to dress, everything was right there. She gets her snowpants, coat, hat and mitts -- the only pair of mitts that will fit her -- there was no buying an extra pair today. I see how Brad is making out and he wasn't have such an easy time. I head over to the toddler section as a sales lady goes to help him. I was sad as the toddler snowpants aren't in yet so Timothy gets nothing today. I prefer to buy the whole outfit at one time to make sure it goes together well. Good news though, they haven't gotten any in so it's not just that they are sold out. Back to the big kids department and it isn't such good news there -- all the snowpants to fit Alex are sold out. The lady tells us to buy the bigger size and she will take our information and call us as soon as another box arrives with his size. I do agree to this, although not with total certainty, it's not the way I like to do things. Zachary gets his outfit and finally gets gloves he can put on. We leave the scarves behind but ask for neckwarmers. The lady gets right on it and gets us 3 that the kids liked and we are set for winter - almost.
The boys need jeans though. By this time the two younger kids are getting restless and we can watch things start to unravle before our eyes. The lady was awesome though and picked out jeans for the kids right away. Then got us another pair in the same size so they each had 2 pairs - what we wanted. Alex also got a couple sweaters while Zachary was trying on jeans. A couple minutes before the check out fun begins we get news from the backroom, another box has been opened and it's big boy snow pants and there is 1 pair of size 10 in it. We scoop it up right away and NOW the big kids are set, except for boots, which is fine. We check out all our items and leave, before a total meltdown occurs.
The sales lady was AWESOME and really helped us out. It was a wonderful experience and we will definately be back in that store when the toddler boys winter stuff is all there.
So we venture to the mall when I got off work - in a thunderstorm I may add - because the boys need jeans and the winter outerwear is out in Children's Place and it will get scooped up as fast as it hits the shelves, especially when people are in stores anyways. We walk into the store, I head right with my princess and toddler and Brad heads left with the big boys. Keona was easy to dress, everything was right there. She gets her snowpants, coat, hat and mitts -- the only pair of mitts that will fit her -- there was no buying an extra pair today. I see how Brad is making out and he wasn't have such an easy time. I head over to the toddler section as a sales lady goes to help him. I was sad as the toddler snowpants aren't in yet so Timothy gets nothing today. I prefer to buy the whole outfit at one time to make sure it goes together well. Good news though, they haven't gotten any in so it's not just that they are sold out. Back to the big kids department and it isn't such good news there -- all the snowpants to fit Alex are sold out. The lady tells us to buy the bigger size and she will take our information and call us as soon as another box arrives with his size. I do agree to this, although not with total certainty, it's not the way I like to do things. Zachary gets his outfit and finally gets gloves he can put on. We leave the scarves behind but ask for neckwarmers. The lady gets right on it and gets us 3 that the kids liked and we are set for winter - almost.
The boys need jeans though. By this time the two younger kids are getting restless and we can watch things start to unravle before our eyes. The lady was awesome though and picked out jeans for the kids right away. Then got us another pair in the same size so they each had 2 pairs - what we wanted. Alex also got a couple sweaters while Zachary was trying on jeans. A couple minutes before the check out fun begins we get news from the backroom, another box has been opened and it's big boy snow pants and there is 1 pair of size 10 in it. We scoop it up right away and NOW the big kids are set, except for boots, which is fine. We check out all our items and leave, before a total meltdown occurs.
The sales lady was AWESOME and really helped us out. It was a wonderful experience and we will definately be back in that store when the toddler boys winter stuff is all there.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Here I go
Starting Monday I am employed full time. Monday to Friday with the occasional Saturday thrown in. I have some people who are giving up parts of their days to watch my kids. I still have spots that need to be filled though. I really don't want to hand my whole paycheque over to a babysitter because that would be totally pointless. Why can this be the month my sister doesn't work and live with us? She's doing very well for herself though and i'm proud of her.
Nothing new on hubby except he has one of his specialist appts in a couple weeks. Mabye we can finally get an answer, really not holding my breathe on that one but we can all hope. I often wonder if he will ever get better. I'm good at convincing myself he won't and then it will be a big shock when he does. If he can stop going numb and can control his pain he can go back to work. I want to say I can then be at home with my son where I belong but I might like working in the outside world and maybe that is where I will belong. I love being a SAHM but maybe it's a good time for me to move on. I do wish that hubby could be a SAHD until he could go back to work but that would really be dreaming. I love him dearly and he can be a good dad but patience is definately not a strong suit for him. Someone needs to convince my dad that he should be retired so he can babysit his grandchildren. At least I get him on his days off - for gas money and tic tacs. The tic tacs of course are for my baby -- he has already learnt that when granddad shows up his pocket rattles and out comes tic tacs. My son will have the most fresh breath ever.
Nothing new on hubby except he has one of his specialist appts in a couple weeks. Mabye we can finally get an answer, really not holding my breathe on that one but we can all hope. I often wonder if he will ever get better. I'm good at convincing myself he won't and then it will be a big shock when he does. If he can stop going numb and can control his pain he can go back to work. I want to say I can then be at home with my son where I belong but I might like working in the outside world and maybe that is where I will belong. I love being a SAHM but maybe it's a good time for me to move on. I do wish that hubby could be a SAHD until he could go back to work but that would really be dreaming. I love him dearly and he can be a good dad but patience is definately not a strong suit for him. Someone needs to convince my dad that he should be retired so he can babysit his grandchildren. At least I get him on his days off - for gas money and tic tacs. The tic tacs of course are for my baby -- he has already learnt that when granddad shows up his pocket rattles and out comes tic tacs. My son will have the most fresh breath ever.
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