Our new/old normal

1st of all I turned 38 years old July 29th, so that happened. Bethany and Jude were really cute and they keep on loving on me and wishing me a happy birthday.  Bethany had a better time with it then I did I think. 

We are just finishing Summer here and I for one am glad to see it go. It's been a summer with a lot of question marks. First, Cindy's employment ended at the beginning of the summer. Her wonderful para position was over and in order for our master 'plan' to work out Cindy needed to find a full time teacher job for next semester (or as soon as the right one came around). Cindy worked hard getting her teaching license transferred over to Texas and she has been feeling the itch to get back behind a desk. 

The summer started out a little slow, Cindy had a few job opportunities but nothing really panned out until..... 6 DAYS UNTIL THE START OF THE SEMESTER! This excellerated all of our plans and forced us to get all of our planning enacted very quickly. 

1st, Cindy's new job (Coble Middle school) is looking like a a wonderful fit for Cindy! She has completed her first week, the meeting/planning week. The first bridge that we had to cross is the timing. Cindy's school gets out at 4:30 and I have to be at work at Whole Foods in Colleyville (40 mins away) at 3/4 pm. Makes this a impossible task for us both to be employees full time. So something had to change. Cindy's job makes more sweet moola than mine so we considered me going part time or even finding another job... But my insurance and benifits are too great here so we tried

to find another option. One option that we really never wanted to consider is to but the kids in daycare to cover the 2/3 hours of job overlap. We hated the thought but in order for us to have a decent amount of money flowing in and keep our great benefits we had to look into it. Cindy found the Children's courtyard in Mansfield. It was a little expensive but would be a safe environment for my babies. So, with that all being said in order for the daycare to take place we had to get another Car. We, with the guidance of Pappy, found and purchased a brand-new Dodge grand Caravan within about 3 hours time. AWESOME!! With one day to spare we got everything ready for D-Day, Cindy's 1st day of school

So here's were we are at...

Monday - Friday Cindy works at school 8:30-4:30, I watch the kids at home. I take the kids to daycare around 3pm and go to Cindys school to switch cars (so Cindy has the car seats). I then go to work. At 4:30 Cindy goes to day care to pick up the kids, takes them home and take care of them through the evening. I get home around 11:30 and hit the hay. Then we get up and do it all over again!! Crazy but it works. I feel blessed that my boss lets me have 2 days  off during the week so the kids only have to go to daycare 3 times a week. The kids after 1 week of daycare are staring to get use to it. Bethany is liking it more than Jude but it's getting better.

We are making it a point to go to church every week and have mama/dad time as well so please don't feel sorry for us,  we are blessed beyond measure!! GOD IS GOOD!!!

So how did I find time to write this blog you ask...  I'm on my lunch break, time to go make some more BBQ!