Only real men wear pink.....thats what I told him anyway!

Michingan unemployment at 12.9%? This woman?....Standing strong!

Low and behold this mama found a job. I guess you all were right when you said,"you'll always be able to find a job" So I got another contract just in the knick of time. I will be returning to the same NICU that I worked at last summer. I have an 8wk contract set up and will be siging up PRN staff after that! IT couldnt be more perfect.
Over memorial day I was in the U.P. with the boys and Deb. I went to a freinds wedding where Kyan was my date. Mick stayed in A2 to continue study for the BAR. We looked fashionly aswome I have to say, me in my hot pink dress rockin some heels and him in his matching pin stripped suit with pink shirt and tie. Oh and did he rock out his mohawk that night!!! I will post pics soon. We met up with Grandpa Brian and Auntie Wind AKA Anniwin LOL at the Deyounge Family Zoo and had a great time seeing all the animals. Im still not sure how that man was able to start a zoo, literally on his front porch. HHMMMMMM? Nolan really liked the reptile room, I think we were in there for a good hour. It really stunk so I kept trying to get him to come out, only to return a min later to stop him from whailing. Two words to sum up that child...Independent and Determined. His on going theme...."Self". Yes that boys must do everything him "Self". The boys ended up staying up north with Deb so she could hit up a wedding tonight. My parents will be taking the boys over this weekend. A shout out to both our parents, you guys all rock!! Thanks to you all for taking such good care of the little men so we can continue our hecktic lives!!!! XOXOX The boys have been away from me since tuesday aftenoon and mick since last friday! Mick is a bit affended that the kids are having a blast with the grandparents and not too concened with talking to him in more than 30sec blocks. All Nolan usually whips out is a "Ba Bye, Love you!" Im sure the reunion with the Ky and the Pie will be more than exciting for them on Sunday afternoon when they get back. I know Daddy is excited to see them, oh wait He bought tickets to the Stanly Cup series tomorrow knowing that the boys were comeing home....hhhhmmmmm? Hey Hey Hockey Town!! GO WINGS!!! I will be crossing my fingers for Grandma Debbie as she makes the 7hr trip back down with them in her back seat!!! Good Luck Deb, youll need it!
Well this is my last night at HFHS, I have one week off and then will be starting back up on June 8th. Unfortuanalty I will have to commute for 8wks, GR is 2 hours form A2. UHG!! Oh well, its a job! I will just be living at a cheep hotel a couple nights a week. UHG!
OH.... I CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT MENTION THIS! WE FOUND A HOUSE.....THAT WE BOTH LIKED!!!! Its beautiful, build in 2006, walk out ranch, maple floors, cherry cabinets, cathedral cielings 3bd 2.5bath just to name a few and.... I LOVE IT! Im trying not to get too attatched until its in our possession (ok, too late, I know) Anyway I love the room it has to offer 1875 finish sqarefeet and the walk out level has an additional 1875 with like 10ft cielings for a grand total of 3750 sq feet!!! This house is perfect because the walkout isnt yet finished so it will give Mick something to do, we all know how he loves endless projects when it comes to the house! LOL I will post picks once this baby is ours. Hope you all are enjoying the begining of your summers! I already know its going to cruise by for us. June Already????

Where we are at.

We are all moved out of the house and into our sublet. Well, all but the patio set and grill, which the renters have agreed to have us pick it up later. Who would have know all our stuff wouldn't have fit into the storage unit? I guess we will need to take more than one trip to Grand Rapids when it comes time for the big move. Currently we are in the rental the whole famdamily including the mother in law. Have I mentioned this woman is wonderful? Well she is, and thank goodness we have had her over the past few weeks. The kids are doing great with grandma with the exception on Pie not allowing her to do ANYTHING! "Mama do it" "Daddy do it" If we aren't there he of course lets her help with anything, thank goodness. Mr. P is still practicing mastering the art of potty training, today as I cleaned Kyans fish's water Mr. P must have gotten excited by the running water. Yeah he peed all over my foot! Ugh as if dirty fish water wasn't enough! Hopefully over the next month or two we will be diaper free. Kyan just completed a 2 week course of abx for an ear infection. We took him back to the ENT after his right ear was draining puss. Turns out the right ear was infected, hence the 2 week course of abx and the left tube, is falling out. Falling out?! Great! Glad it cost over 4k to have the stupid thing put in just to have it fall out 2 months later! Geeze, I wonder if I find it once it falls out if I can return it for a refund? Well at least the tube in the right ear did its job buy draining the fluid and not storing it in the inner ear making the kid def again! Kyan is getting ready to finish up his last days of preschool. Now that we are in Ann Arbor it is so nice driving him to school, its only 2min away!!! The location of the elementary school to our new house is a huge factor in the hunt. We still haven't found that perfect house yet. Partly because my husband and I don't agree on ANYthing! I'm sure we will someday, just hope that day is sometime in June or July of this year! Mick started his BAR review today, so he will continue to be busy with boring law stuff for the next 2 months (oh' I think that will be true for him for the rest of his working days) He takes the exam on july 31st. I on the other hand only have a few working days left. My contract ends on the 31st and I was told there will be no extension offer. Because the economy, there is no agency help needed UGH! I just hope I can get a job somewhere! Wish me luck in my search, I only have 2 weeks to find something.

A Monday for Moments

I had a moment at Micks graduation. As I watched him walk over the stage, all I could think about was the times over the past three years when I could have been more supportive.
I had a moment when Nolan had enough of sitting through the ceremony and decided to chuck his blowpop over the balcony hitting a woman 2 stories below.
I had a moment when I was told I will no longer have a job, one I was expected to have until our move in August to Grand Rapids. Besides the crappy housing market, the crappy economy finally hit home. How does somebody in my field have to worry about a job?
I had a moment when I took one final walk through the house we called home for the past three years. Nolan's first room, Kyan's stars on his ceiling, the family room downstairs Mick spent countless hours refinishing making it as perfect as possible. I didn't cry, but had a moment.
I had a moment when I walked in the door after not seeing the boys in what felt like forever. With the move and working I was only seeing them for what seemed like minutes each day. I have never seen Nolan's eyes bigger than they were that morning. As he did a big dance from half way down the stairs when he first saw me, he took my cheeks in his hands and said,"Mommy.....my friend!" and pulled me in for a kiss on the lips. What a moment!
I had a moment when I woke up to a flooded bathroom in the house we are subleasing. I had an even bigger moment when I walked down stairs to find the kitchen underneath the bathroom flooded along with falling drywall...OH WHAT A MOMENT!
I had a moment when I thought about how lucky I am to have Deb as a mother in law.
I had a moment tonight when Mick gave me a wonderful kiss goodbye before I left for work.

He DID IT! I couldn't be smiling any bigger!

On the road again.............

I attempted to bask in the sun today during nap time only to be disappointed by the clouds, ugh! The weather has been wonderful. The kids have been loving the outdoors especially my Pie Pants. Its so awesome how they can go outside and entertain each other. Well at least Mr. P entertains himself. Kyan on the other hand thinks he lives at a resort with 24 hour a day entertainment! Ugh just go play!!!!!!!! The neighbor kids (part timers) have been coming over and playing in our back yard with the boys. It caught me off guard but was so cute when Morgan rang the bell and just stood there. I guess I was suppose to know she was "here to play" Ok come on in!!! The kids are 7 and 9 a bit older but keep the boys on their toes and completely entertained! They also serve as role models. Jordan was standing on our fence and fell, caught the back of his shirt on the top of the fence and ripped a board down. Basically he almost hung himself, ouch! Watching it made me cringe, but not a tear from that boy. Now, when Kyan hurts himself what used to be cries and tears is now a brush off the old knees and, "Im tough, just like Jordan" THANK YOU Jordan! Kyan need to see that!!!! Of course all this friend making had to start happening right when we are about to move :( Mick always says I look at the glass half empty. I admit it, I do! So yeah, we need to be out of our house by May 15th! Talk about a hussle to pack and move. Mick graduates on the 9th so we will be busy with company coming for that. The packing process has started once again for us. So where are we moving? Um, oh yeah forgot that part! Not sure yet. We have not found a house yet in GR. Well, one we can agree on that is. We will most likely sublet a pad in AA for the remainder of the summer so I can finish up my Contract at Henry Ford. We do have our eyes on a duplex that would be nice. Build in 99 both sides 3 bed 2 bath with approx 1700sq ft each. By scooping up a property like this our morgage payment would be cheap, I mean dirt cheap. As long as the otherside is rented. PJ and Jess are talking of moving to GR so they would make wonderful tenants! PS Get your butts packing Jess, I dont care if you are 38wks prego!!!! We have come to terms with this to save save save to buy a home we really want instead of something mediocre. Its a shortsale property so it may take some time. Then, we can move again in 2 years! Whats wrong with 8 times in 6 years? Wish us luck! If we don't find anything, I did snatch a load of boxes from sams for packing. We could always just duck tape them all together, we could probably get over 4000 sq feet of living space!!!!

I Should Be Studying

I should be studying (actually writing); instead, I'm posting to get a few things off my chest. (Cue sighs.) During the past few minutes, I've thought about several things that I thought deserved to be written down. Because I tend to lose random pieces of paper with "important" lists and musings on them, I've decided to post some of my musings here, where their insightfulness or short-sightedness will be forever accessible to our vast audience. ("Blogging: Never have so many said so little to so few." I'm not sure who said that first, but I like to think that the "so little" part doesn't apply to things people say about their kids.) Warning: This has nothing to do with our children.

Sometime during the next century (or two), there will be a war fought over weather. As more countries begin to "seed the clouds" to make it rain, and"fight global warming" to make it cool (like temperature-wise, not radical-wise), the effects of some countries' meddling will rain upon some other countries' parades. Other countries will not like it. War will ensue. What I find interesting is not the question whether people will or won't fight over the weather (they will), but whether people will fight for cold weather or hot weather, wet weather or dry weather, etc. In the end, people will probably fight for cold, hot, wet, or dry, when what they really want is a mix of all four. If this sounds like modern politics (a fight for extremes when what most people want is the middle ground), it is.

The future of warfare is not bigger, more destructive weapons; it's much more subtle. Countries with nuclear weapons don't attack with them (at least not with the intent being to kill large numbers of people). Countries without nuclear weapons strive to get them, and some, if not most that seek them eventually will get them (sorry Israel).

It's difficult to say what will happen when the majority of countries possess nuclear weapons. It seems that it will be in all countries' best interests to band together against the use of any nuclear weapons, lest most of mankind be wiped off the earth in a volley of retalliatory strikes. The most historically significant advancement in warfare will either become, in effect, a non-issue (if countries don't attack with nuclear weapons), or most of us (at least those of us living in countries that possess nuclear weapons) will be obliterated by it. In either case, there's no need to waste time worrying about it.

Back to the future: religion's grip on the human (and robotic?) mind will loosen; global cooperation among nations, even those now described as super-powers, will be the norm; wars will be fought over more rational and meaningful disagreements (like border disputes, trade wars, etc.); countries will avoid overt warfare because it is wildly expensive and because killing children (while overtly waging war) is both seemingly unavoidable and widely unpopular. Countries will still look for ways to ensure their survival by threatening the survival of others, but will do so only when they can not be held responsible. Think ant treatment: If you spray with Black Flag one hundred ants in the house, you've temporarily solved your problem, but until you treat with something that the ants take back to their nest to kill the colony, your ant problem will return year after year. Leaders of countries found to be waging overt war without the consent of the global majority will be deemed "uncooperative"; such leaders will be swiftly punished, removed, and replaced by cooperative leaders - this will be the primary use of overt warfare.

Of leaders, they will be chosen democratically. The days of the dictator are over. While individual countries will still harbor internal debates about the proper role and size of government, the primary division on the international stage will be between those countries pushing capitalism and those countries pushing socialism. The days of the communists are over.

Of armies, they will be smaller. Once borders are secured (they will be), and overt warfare becomes disfavored and more mechanized (it will), fewer troops will be needed. Because the economic disparity present between rich nations and poor nations has diminished, "cooperative" countries will be more able to assert effective control over uncooperative countries in their region.

Of subtle warfare, it's difficult to say what it will look like: Pollution seems too easily traceable; the same goes for internet and other electronic warfare; perhaps epidemic-disease-warfare would be effective, but I suspect countries will become more vigilant about screening those who intend to enter. I can't think of many things that could be done in good faith (or at least apparently so) domestically but which would nonetheless have serious negative repercussions abroad; weather manipulation is one such thing.

It's late, and I'm already sure to catch flak from Jen for posting this, so I'll stop. Beware, though, there may be similar ramblings in the future.

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IBM note pad $1000.00

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Multigrain Chips lite salt $2.99

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Love you Mick.....only one more week honey!!!

Happy Birthday Thing 2! Hope your taxes are filed!

Take 2 of last weekend...........

GOT EGGS??

Kyan playing in the back yard.

Home boy style, its cool to leave the tags on right?