It's cleaning Wednesday!!!

Ok, so I cant believe I am actually saying this but a couple of weeks ago we finally broke down and hired a lady to come clean our house. Billy & I refused to do this for a long time. We are only 30 years old and shouldn't have to pay someone to clean for us. After one frustrating weekend of cleaning all weekend and sitting down on Sunday night feeling no more rested than we did Friday night we decided that it was finally time to hire someone. Since we are 30 years old and are very capable of picking up after ourselves and doing some things around the house we decided to hire half a maid. She comes every other week and only does the "deep" cleaning such as base boards, tubs, windows....etc and we do everything else! It is much easier knowing that all we have to do is pick up after ourselves every night, wash our own dishes and clothes. I love walking in the house on Wednesdays after she has come, it feels so refreshing! Speaking of....she came today!!!!!!

Decisions......decisions......

Did anyone see the news last night? Well, if you did you would have seen that Social Workers finally got some positive publicity! That doesn't come very often! Normally you only hear of us on the news when a child has been abused or on a show like E.R. or Grey's Anatomy where you see the social worker dragging a child away kicking and screaming from their mother due to some form of suspected abuse. If you didnt catch it and you are interested you can read it here.

Contrary to most of the media's belief, there are rewarding areas of social work to work in. I currently work for The Department of Human Services (DHS) in the licensure department. I go out to group homes, shelters, adoption agencies and child placing agencies that we (DHS) place our kids in that are in custody and make sure that they are in compliance with the standards that are in place. This seemed like the perfect job when I took it. Don't get me wrong, it is a great job but at the time I was so burned out with being the "front line social worker" and the less people I had to deal with the better! Little did I know but I would soon miss interacting with the clients.

I have been offered a position within DHS in their Adoption/Resource Unit. I would be doing home studies, which I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to do, working with foster parents, conducting trainings and recruiting foster parents for Scott county. This sounds like the PERFECT job for me and usually I would jump on it but for some reason I am real hesitant.

As most of you know, Billy's job is less than pleasant. He has got several of things in the "works" but no on paper offers. When he was laid off in August he applied with a company. He had several phone interviews and then a couple of in person interviews. About the time the interviewing process was over, their business slowed down and they were able to hire any one. So in the mean time he gets another call from another company he has previously worked for asking him to apply for a position they have. So he does. He heard from them last week and they said that they are currently reviewing all the applications and they would call him back with a interview date. So we are waiting on that call he gets a call back from this other company saying that they are able to hire now and they want him!!!! He is excited but tells them about this other offer and they said ok well if you don't want the design job and you want to stay in quality then we will make you our Quality Manager.....as if the decision wasn't already hard enough! So I said all that to say that Billy has 3 verbal offers and not a clue of which one to take!

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we make our decisions! I think mine would be a lot easier if we weren't both changing jobs at the same time. As you know with a small child and this time of year the odds of her being sick and needing time off are high.

There is something about a sleeping baby that you have to love. Especially this sleeping baby.....
It scares me to death to know that I wont be able to save her from experiencing this cruel dangerous society that we live in these days. As my friend Amy says, "I just want to put her in a bubble."

Playing with her laptop that her Uncle Bubba & Aunt Emily gave her! She LOVES it and thinks that she is so grown when she plays with it! I have actually played several of the games on there. They make me feel smart...haha!

We had a lot of fun tonight. We played with legos, drew on her easel that Santa brought her and splish splashed in the bath tub. She is growing up way to fast! She even called me "mom" several times instead of mommy :(

Please continue to keep Billy & I in yall's thoughts and prayers. We have some very important decisions to make in the coming weeks and are nervous that we are not going to make the right ones. Thanks!

Signs

So after talking to many of yall about deleting my page and yall telling me that I was doing the wrong thing yall got me wondering. I receive a text message this morning from a number that I wasn't even sure who it was and when I found out who It was she was not even aware of what is going on. The text message read:

"1 Thessalonians 5:22, Avoid every kind of evil. Have a great day :)"

Those of yall who really know me know that I am a biggie on "signs." Just a small reminder that HE is always with us and steering us in the right direction! This is all the conformation that I need!

Sleepy Head....

It looks like I was not the only one who was sleepy this morning. I got her out of bed, changed her diaper and clothes with out a fight. She didn't even do her usual calling the roll asking "where's daddy, where's sadie grace, where's mimi, where's gamma and the list goes on and on and usually starts over at the end! This probably isn't a good thing, but she was so sleepy I left her here for about 10 mins while I went and finished getting dressed and she never even moved. She looked so sweet and comfy it made me want to call into work sick and let her sleep in! God love her!!!

Going Private.....

Just want to let everyone know that in a couple of days our blog will be going private. If you would like to follow us and keep in touch send me your name & email to KimberlyIReed@Bellsouth.net and I will add you to the list of people who will be able to view it. Its really sad that people have to go to such great links to keep "haters" & jealous people that have nothing but evil intentions out of their lives.

Also, last night I deleted my facebook page. I have been thinking about it for a while and I finally got fed up and just did it. I have had several people text and ask me not to do it because they love all of my pictures and my comments. I hated to do it but it was what I had to do and what is best for me right now. For those true friends that have nothing but good intentions you can follow our blog and I will update it as if I was updating facebook.

Hope you all understand!

The Reeds