We are all so blessed in many ways. This weekend was just another way of showing how hard work and dedication pays off.
On Saturday, I (Jessica) got to go shopping. Since we had to go to the Mall an hour away to pick up my ring from repair and we also had some left over money from the wedding, so Cody decided it was time to "update" my fashion-less wardrobe.... Holy Moly has anyone over the age of 25 seen the latest fashion trends to buy? I am pretty sure it is the exact same fashion from 10-12 years ago.... Only if I was a teen again... Anyways, it was fun to get to spend the day with Cody and Kaiya going from store to store and getting what I wanted/needed and picking up Panda Express for lunch (no we dont have one close to us so we get it occasionally).... We also bought Cody some new shoes and Kaiya few things from the Childrens Place.
On Mothers Day we got to spend the day just hanging around the house, going out to lunch and being a family. It was nice, we took Kaiya for a bike ride and walked the neighborhood a few times and truly enjoyed each others company... As we were walking and talking I couldnt help but feel truly blessed. We all know at times we dont have it easy and that relationships, parenthood and work can at times be stressful, I realized that all the hard work and effort that we put into our daily lives does pay off eventually... It may take some time but it is truly worth it in the end.
I am a blessed mother of 1 child and 1 dog and I couldnt be happier with the way my life has turned out.
Love, Peace and Happiness
Jessica
Monday, May 13, 2013
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Early Mothers Day Surprise!!!!
So as I am in the Kitchen making one of our favorite weekly dinners (cheeseburger macaroni) in walks Cody. He comes straight into the Kitchen and hands me a plastic bag from the PX (post exchange). So I ask him "what is this", he replies "your mothers day gift"... Yes I got it early. So I begin to open it up and and I automatically see one of my most favorite things.....
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Yes he picked it out all by himself, as I pulled the large bag out of the plastic bag I knew it was coach. I kept saying "how did you do this with out me knowing" he replied "don't worry about it and keep going their is more". So I opened the large bag to find the matching wrist let wallet inside, I said "you shouldn't have" he said "keep going there is more on the side pocket". I open the side pocket to find a tanning gift card.
I couldn't have been more surprised last night that he took the time and effort to pick this gift out for me. All along I thought he had a late formation and would be home soon, part of that was true, his formation ran late but he also went and picked out my mothers day gift and gave it to me early. He knew he wouldn't be able to hide it in the house and he didn't want to keep it in his car. I don't care what day it was given to me on, it is still amazing and special. I am one lucky wife and mother.
Happy Early Mothers Day to all Current and Future Mothers!
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Wedding
Most of you know that my amazingly best friend of 10 years got married this past weekend. I couldnt be more happy that she found such an amazing guy. Here's the story....
Lindsay and I met 10 years ago at a church camp (surprisingly neither one of us still go to church... all that often) anyways.... We have never lived in the same state, yes this is true. The phone and internet have been our constant contact with one another and the occasional hey I am coming to visit.
10 years later I found myself giving the Matron of Honor speech at her wedding, I truly winged it since I left my thought/typed out speech at the hotel. I couldnt believe that my best friend was married, as am I. It didnt seem that long ago we were at camp hanging out late at night, texting on our cell phones and having friends sneak into our room at night with pizza... These memories I would cherish for the rest of my life.
The wedding was amazing, she looked stunning. I was shocked to find out that I would be the one to get her dressed in her amazingly fitted and stunning gown and to have the privilege to see her first in it, to take pictures all teary eyed with her and seeing the wonderful women she has grown up to be. I will always have that with me as long as I live. No amount of rain that we encountered or freezing cold wind could stop us from having a good time, and the awkward noise Cody made and he blubbered out his vows to Lindsay. Lindsay and Cody's family welcomed me with open arms and embraced me as one of their own family members for the weekend. My parents came into town to help me with Kaiya at the wedding and I couldnt have been more blessed since she was totally out of her element and my own husband could not attend with me.
I am truly great full that Lindsay and Cody have found each other and that they have a love and passion for one another that is undeniable.... Cheers and toast to them for a happy life they will live together... I love you both so much.
Lindsay and I met 10 years ago at a church camp (surprisingly neither one of us still go to church... all that often) anyways.... We have never lived in the same state, yes this is true. The phone and internet have been our constant contact with one another and the occasional hey I am coming to visit.
10 years later I found myself giving the Matron of Honor speech at her wedding, I truly winged it since I left my thought/typed out speech at the hotel. I couldnt believe that my best friend was married, as am I. It didnt seem that long ago we were at camp hanging out late at night, texting on our cell phones and having friends sneak into our room at night with pizza... These memories I would cherish for the rest of my life.
The wedding was amazing, she looked stunning. I was shocked to find out that I would be the one to get her dressed in her amazingly fitted and stunning gown and to have the privilege to see her first in it, to take pictures all teary eyed with her and seeing the wonderful women she has grown up to be. I will always have that with me as long as I live. No amount of rain that we encountered or freezing cold wind could stop us from having a good time, and the awkward noise Cody made and he blubbered out his vows to Lindsay. Lindsay and Cody's family welcomed me with open arms and embraced me as one of their own family members for the weekend. My parents came into town to help me with Kaiya at the wedding and I couldnt have been more blessed since she was totally out of her element and my own husband could not attend with me.
I am truly great full that Lindsay and Cody have found each other and that they have a love and passion for one another that is undeniable.... Cheers and toast to them for a happy life they will live together... I love you both so much.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Niece No.2 and Nany No. 2?
Yesterday was a wonderful day for my family, we welcomed another little girl into our family. My sister had her 2nd daughter around 8am. She is healthy and happy and she couldnt be more blessed.
I am proud to say that I am an auntie and a mommy, but this leaves me wondering if what I say I want is what I really want.
I have been going back and forth of whether or not to have another child. Kaiya is 2 and if we were to have another she would be 3 by the time the baby is born. We have finally gotten Kaiya potty trained to the point where it is diapers only at night and she is a total mommies girl. How do I go from one loving (terrible) 2 year old to 2 under the age of 3, work full time and everything else that I do.
I started off saying I never wanted kids, then I met my husband and what was meant to be was meant to be and we have 1, I rack my brain at the fact how rough that pregnancy was one me and the time that was spent in bed with morning sickness and everything else... Do I really have what it takes to have another one?
Only time will tell, for now, I will bask in me Auntie sense and see what life brings me.
I am proud to say that I am an auntie and a mommy, but this leaves me wondering if what I say I want is what I really want.
I have been going back and forth of whether or not to have another child. Kaiya is 2 and if we were to have another she would be 3 by the time the baby is born. We have finally gotten Kaiya potty trained to the point where it is diapers only at night and she is a total mommies girl. How do I go from one loving (terrible) 2 year old to 2 under the age of 3, work full time and everything else that I do.
I started off saying I never wanted kids, then I met my husband and what was meant to be was meant to be and we have 1, I rack my brain at the fact how rough that pregnancy was one me and the time that was spent in bed with morning sickness and everything else... Do I really have what it takes to have another one?
Only time will tell, for now, I will bask in me Auntie sense and see what life brings me.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Birthdays
Today is Cody's 23rd birthday. I cant beleive it, we were talking last night and he stated that when I say that I sound like his mom.Not that its a bad thing, we love you Kera.
I met Cody when he was 19 almost 20. The first thing I said when he told me how old he was was "thats my brothers age". Now we can laugh at it but before it was shock to me. I love my husband but to my surprise I didnt know that that day would have changed my life. I am 2 years older then him and at times it can be a challenge, but that is what I signed up for.
I can only hope that he has a wonderful and amazing birthday and I love him dearly. I cant wait to spend 23 more birthdays with him and hopefully many many more.
Yay for getting older!
Jessica
I met Cody when he was 19 almost 20. The first thing I said when he told me how old he was was "thats my brothers age". Now we can laugh at it but before it was shock to me. I love my husband but to my surprise I didnt know that that day would have changed my life. I am 2 years older then him and at times it can be a challenge, but that is what I signed up for.
I can only hope that he has a wonderful and amazing birthday and I love him dearly. I cant wait to spend 23 more birthdays with him and hopefully many many more.
Yay for getting older!
Jessica
Monday, April 15, 2013
Frustrations at Work
As I sit here and read over my e-mails at work, I have this one person who works for one of our clients and who just so happened to work where I work now, I cant help but wonder how people get off talking to others the way she does.... Well let me back up here and start from the beginning..
So I started working as a temp last July at a survey company (I absolutely love my job), it was only supposed to be for 4-6 weeks, that turned in to 8 weeks and upon me being here for 3 weeks I was asked if I would perhaps like to stay on full time if it could be arranged. I went home and thought upon it and talked with my husband on it and decided that if the offer was right I would love to stay and we could do so many more things with the dual income.... Well the girl who I was temping for made it clear that I was just a temp and so on so forth, so did the girl who I could absolutely do with out on a daily basis. Well 10 weeks later the girl decided she could "finally" come back to work. The arrangement I had made was that once she took the settlement offer to leave that I would come back... It took roughly 8 business days for this to be worked out.... Well lord and behold both girls are friends, go figure.
The first girl who used to work here hired the new girl who, well lets just say didn't tell the truth about her being pregnant and what not to the owner, was working for not even 6 full months before she took maternity leave and in I came as a temp. Which is was I fully intended on being until I was approached with an offer I couldn't have refused.
Ever since the day her friend left it has been a nightmare... everything has turned from being her fault to somehow being mine and she is trying to deliberately get me in trouble with my boss and lets just say she has a very terse tongue that is going to ultimately get her into trouble. I have received e-mails monthly about my inadequacy of doing my job and being unprofessional to reply to her demeaning e-mails. Well after the first 10 of them our boss's had a sit down and it didn't end well for her. She had a un-paid day off to think about her attitude and could return with an apology and to not let it happen again... Well the apology e-mail was more of a blame it on her boyfriend and her "personal" issues... Blah Blah Blah...
Here we go into round 2 of the countless demeaning e-mails and now slamming other people we do business for and using her knowledge gained in our office to slam our customers and make her company seem so much better... well with attitudes like that, your company made a HUGE mistake in hiring you (personally saying). If I ever dared to talk to a client/customer the way she talks to just me, I would be fired no questions asked. I don't know what I have done besides take her friends job, which was given to me, I did not make the decision to let someone go I was simply doing my job and apparently it was better then the job she had been doing, apparently that has made her blood boil so bad but I am over it. I want to write her the most horrible e-mail and send everything to her boss and say look what she is saying and how she is saying it. I am ready to take a personal day at work and go home and de-frustrate before I call over and have a little talk myself with her boss and out her for all her B.S... Not to mention countless times I have saved her so called "ass" with thing she forgot or ordered doubly.
As some point I can understand that you may feel like you have "domain" over such a positions or company but if you no longer work there and have no intentions on returning why do you care and put so much effort into making someone look bad when they have done nothing wrong? I have had talks with my boss over this and he handled it the first time and I am certain he will handle it again. I don't want to get people fired or in trouble but when you work for a company and you are nobody important there then you shouldn't be doing this, you make that company look horrible and you just are plain ugly your self.
A word to the wise, the welfare line will get one person longer in the near future and it wont be me.
So I started working as a temp last July at a survey company (I absolutely love my job), it was only supposed to be for 4-6 weeks, that turned in to 8 weeks and upon me being here for 3 weeks I was asked if I would perhaps like to stay on full time if it could be arranged. I went home and thought upon it and talked with my husband on it and decided that if the offer was right I would love to stay and we could do so many more things with the dual income.... Well the girl who I was temping for made it clear that I was just a temp and so on so forth, so did the girl who I could absolutely do with out on a daily basis. Well 10 weeks later the girl decided she could "finally" come back to work. The arrangement I had made was that once she took the settlement offer to leave that I would come back... It took roughly 8 business days for this to be worked out.... Well lord and behold both girls are friends, go figure.
The first girl who used to work here hired the new girl who, well lets just say didn't tell the truth about her being pregnant and what not to the owner, was working for not even 6 full months before she took maternity leave and in I came as a temp. Which is was I fully intended on being until I was approached with an offer I couldn't have refused.
Ever since the day her friend left it has been a nightmare... everything has turned from being her fault to somehow being mine and she is trying to deliberately get me in trouble with my boss and lets just say she has a very terse tongue that is going to ultimately get her into trouble. I have received e-mails monthly about my inadequacy of doing my job and being unprofessional to reply to her demeaning e-mails. Well after the first 10 of them our boss's had a sit down and it didn't end well for her. She had a un-paid day off to think about her attitude and could return with an apology and to not let it happen again... Well the apology e-mail was more of a blame it on her boyfriend and her "personal" issues... Blah Blah Blah...
Here we go into round 2 of the countless demeaning e-mails and now slamming other people we do business for and using her knowledge gained in our office to slam our customers and make her company seem so much better... well with attitudes like that, your company made a HUGE mistake in hiring you (personally saying). If I ever dared to talk to a client/customer the way she talks to just me, I would be fired no questions asked. I don't know what I have done besides take her friends job, which was given to me, I did not make the decision to let someone go I was simply doing my job and apparently it was better then the job she had been doing, apparently that has made her blood boil so bad but I am over it. I want to write her the most horrible e-mail and send everything to her boss and say look what she is saying and how she is saying it. I am ready to take a personal day at work and go home and de-frustrate before I call over and have a little talk myself with her boss and out her for all her B.S... Not to mention countless times I have saved her so called "ass" with thing she forgot or ordered doubly.
As some point I can understand that you may feel like you have "domain" over such a positions or company but if you no longer work there and have no intentions on returning why do you care and put so much effort into making someone look bad when they have done nothing wrong? I have had talks with my boss over this and he handled it the first time and I am certain he will handle it again. I don't want to get people fired or in trouble but when you work for a company and you are nobody important there then you shouldn't be doing this, you make that company look horrible and you just are plain ugly your self.
A word to the wise, the welfare line will get one person longer in the near future and it wont be me.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Quotes
Today has to be one of those days where I was meant to be at home sick, its 78 degrees outside and I am stuck in an office dealing with not so nice "customers"... All I have to say is if the company was not happy with my work ethic or me, then I wouldnt have replaced someone who was already here...
Today I think I am going to post some of my favorite quotes- most of which a customer we work with has under their signature block on their e-mail. Its always nice to see them.
Enjoy
“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.” –Andrew Vachss
“When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.” – Chris Colfer
Today I think I am going to post some of my favorite quotes- most of which a customer we work with has under their signature block on their e-mail. Its always nice to see them.
Enjoy
“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.” –Andrew Vachss
“When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.” – Chris Colfer
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