Today

Today was to be the start of vacation for me, instead I worked. Tomorrow I only get a 1/2 day off due to a mandatory meeting. I had to work today so that I could send an assistant to another store since we are starting to run short of assistant help and going to non-management keyholders. This way they can pay them less and require the same amount of work out of them. They will be turning all our assistants over to non-management keyholders by 2014 and reducing their pay 20%. And we wonder why they are leaving fast and furious? Wednesday I am planning on doing some calls concerning moving forward to bring home Joshua. Finding out what type of homestudy needs to be done(update or full), checking to see what kind of medical help we might be able to receive--or if our salary is too much to allow. Praying things will be as I need them to be. Hearing a weird sound right now on our roof, look up to see some small birds playing around our sky-lights. Surprised the dogs aren't barking at this as they tend to bark at everything else. Must be some good bugs up there. Taking Kaylee and a girlfriend to the movies on Thursday for a small birthday treat. She turns 12 on sunday. Hard to believe the time has gone that fast. Tyler is coming home next week, he could be home as early as Monday, but for sure on Tuesday as Bruce may need to go pick him up then. On Friday next week he gets his remaining wisdom teeth out (all 3 of them). We have his and a friend of his Eagle Court of Honor on the 18th and then on the 29th we move him to UW-Whitewater to begin the next chapter of his life--college life. He is looking to study Biology with an emphasis on Freshwater Marine. If all goes like he is planning, his senior year would be spent over in Australia. Can't wait to go visit him. It doesn't sound like he really wants to work at camp next summer, at least the last time we saw him. Chrislande is starting to come up with the funniest sayings sometimes. Tonight at dinner time she said something that with the look in her eye's was hilarious. You just never know where she learns some of this stuff. She is also starting to get very bossy with her little friends, need to watch this and curb that so sh doesn't have too much trouble. Yesterday I worked to do her upper hair braids to look nicer. They turned out pretty well I must say. Really like how long her hair is getting. I have been doing my version of cornrows on top/front and doing 2 strand twist on the lower back area and using beads on them. I think I have finally figured out how to do it so it doesn't pull her hair too much and thus have less crying spells. Still need to do in shifts as she doesn't like how slow I am when doing this. Even putting on the tv doesn't help out very much. Thanks for listening Lori