Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. Life has been very busy over here. I am enjoying the Financial Peace University class I go to every Monday night. Also work has been crazy. I am now on night shift and dayshift. My sleep and kid schedule is thrown for a loop when I have to work nights. I physically feel ill hopping back and forth. Hope is on the way b/c we have 2 interviews this week and we just hired 2 new people. We have contract help (who make $68.00 per hour) working our complete night shift and one of them just walked off the job without letting anyone know. Which who do they call. Me. I really need to work on being able to say NO. I just can't say no when I know there is no one else to work it if I don't. No one higher up notices any sacrifices made. They have had a proposal on their desk for raises for about 3 or more months now. They don't see the need. I was the only reason the lab lasted as long as it did without contract help. When I finally said No to working nights they had to hire them. I worked nights for 8 months staright. And for at least 1 of those months I had only 4 days off. Yes my paychecks looked great, but my kids took it hard. Jarrett became very clingy and cried for me every night. That hurt really bad. For those of you that don't know I am a (dayshift) department supervisor. I tried so hard to keep my department in order during this time. I can say that I didn't get any deficiencies during our 2 CAP inspections we went through during that time. When I was given the job the last supervisor had let the department go to pot and had 25 deficiencies that I had to correct. I corrected them all and tried to reorganize the department to make it easier on everyone that works in it. Well enough about work now lets talk about the kids:

I realized today that Brooke has never been to a hotel. She was asking today about if it had beds and a bathroom. She is extremely excited about our beach trip we are leaving for Friday. I haven't had a vavction in 13 years and Brooke has never been on one. Jarrett has but he was about 6 months old so of course he doesn't remember. I can't wait. I am already packed. I haven't packed Brooke or Jarrett yet. I will tomarrow. I had to sleep a little today since I am at this moment working a 12 1/2 hour shift. My plans are to pack them tomarrow and to bake cookies for our snack instead of buying a bunch of junk to take. We never stop at convenient stores except to go to the bathroom b/c with 5 people it would take forever and cost a fortune to pick out a drink and a snack. We always take an ice chest with coke and koolaid along with some snacks. We are going to destin florida. We will return Monday. I know it isn't a long trip, but it is way better than nothing. Jarrett is looking forward to digging a hole, and Brooke I think is looking forward to staying in a hotel the most. At least that is what she talks about the most. HaHa. Ashley doesn't say b/c she is a teenager. She is excited about going though. She probably is dreading the drive in the van with her siblings knowing her. I am trying to fix our DVD players so we'll at least have one to go with. I am going to clean them with a cleaner disk and charge them. I think there probably is with the charging. For some reason these have had issues with that. We will hoepfully take 2 of them and when one runs out of battery we can use the other for the remainder of the trip. We tried to use the car charger last time and it wouldn't work adn that was rough hearing Jarrett cry to watch a movie b/c he didn't understand why they work for 4 hours and then they don't. Well I better go for now. I'll try to post more later.

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