Many Changes

I've recently changed a lot in my life.

Charles and i moved in together, we moved to Paso, I got a new job.
started playing WoW again.
gonna get my CNA next month.
and after a year with the company i get to go through the nursing program.
at their expense.

I like that a lot.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years

Congratulate me. I just got engaged.


YAHOO!!!!

First Day of School

Yesterday morning, my 4 year old and i, walked to the end of the culdesac to wait for the bus to pick him up. He was ecstatic.

"Look Mommy Birds" and "Look Mommy you found a plane!" "come on mommy, let's find the bus!"

finally the bus came, he climbed right on and his new bus driver showed him where to sit, put his seatbelt on and went and strapped herself in.

He said "Come on Mommy! the bus is here it's time to go" and I had to respond with "This is a bus just for kids honey, I'll see you when you get home from school. I'll wait right here"
with this fake bright and cheery smile. the look on his face when he realized that i wasn't going with him... well, it made me very sad. As soon as the bus was was out of sight i cried my way home. i sat here with my cell phone in one hand and the house phone in the other all day, waiting from a call from the school saying something happened.

Finally at 2:00 i went back to wait for the bus. The bus driver drove up, handed me his things, said "Bye Cristopher, see you tomorrow!" he said "Bye Nicki!" and we went home.

Apparently all of my stress and worry were for naught. His teacher sent a note home with him saying he had a great day. That she couldn't wait to see him tomorrow.

He kept trying to leave and take the bus again last night. I guess he had a successful first day of school.

UPDATE

HeH

I got a call from my boss over there a couple of weeks ago. saying... "richele, why haven't you returned my calls?"

basically i have my job back except they're training me to do something else and i only work weekends.

i get to be a cold food prep cook.

hard work. lemme tell you.

things with the little one are getting smoothed out.

i really wish i could afford to stay home with him and help him through everything. but at a month and a half i'm out of reserves already.

hope the childcare question gets solved soon.

hmmm well that's it.

pretty much.

oh what a wonderful life.

well, i talked to my bosses about the fact that until i found reliable and appropriate child care for my son i had to either change my hours of availability or i needed to go on a leave of abscence. my boss told me to go on a leave of absence. so for the past week and a half to two weeks, i've been working on that. i filled out the paper work for the FMLA and i've been working on finding child care for my son.

on friday last week i had a meeting with the lady who works with eligibility for head start which is an excellent comprehensive plan for preschool age children. She and their disability specialist came by today to talk to me some more. they are going to work with cristopher to appropriately place him in one of their programs. they also work with the school system to provide transportation to and from some of the special programs they have there as well.

as we were talking options today i got mail from compass group. (the company that owns morrison management.) I'm just going to go ahead and type out the letter i got.

Dear Richele,

At this time we regret to inform you that you do not meet the requirements for Family and Medical Leave due to :

X do not have a year's service with the company.

To meet criteria for eligibility you must have worked at least one year for the company and have worked 1000 hours prior to the leave.

Therefore your employment has been terminated. Should you have any questions, please contact your unit manager.....


the rest of that was not relevent. but of course i immediately burst into tears and had to ask the head start people to leave. Crying in front of people has never been one of my favorite things.

I'm more than a little bit upset at the way things have turned out. but seeing as how it's not illegal for them to do this all i can do is look for another job. This is going to look horrible on any job application i fill out.

I've never been fired before. I'm finding this to be a humiliating and very personal experience.

I'm wondering if other parents with children with some special needs have had similar experiences.

well, i have an appointment tomorrow to take him in for a physical to be sure he's in good health.

thursday i have an appointment with the school system to get him into PEEP great speech and language program.

i wonder if i'm eligible for unemployment now... huh i'll have to check into that.

and i'll be 36 tomorrow. happy birthday to me.

yall have a good day. i'm going to go drown my sorrows in butter pecan ice cream.

update on the Bleh day

Wow yesterday truly sucked. I started off the day, as you know, finding out that the backyard had caught fire. i finally got the whole story.

My son David (12) was watching cartoons at 10:30 tuesday night. he glances out the back window because he see's funny light. He runs upstairs shouting for grandma that the back yard is on fire. My mom runs down, grabs the hose and proceeds to put out the fire. with some help from the pipes in the sprinkler system that melted and we had no idea were there under the deck. there was water spurting out of them as well... My son is a hero of course. If he'd actually been in bed asleep we probably wouldn't be here anymore. the fire got about a foot from the air conditioning unit in the back of the house. so... Thanks David!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a phone call on tuesday while i was at work. asking me to go to my sons preschool after work on wednesday for a meeting. so i show up and bring Charles with me. I'm not going to go into the details of the meeting, just the result. Friday is Cristophers last day at the center, they can "no longer meet his needs" and blah blah blah. kinda sucked. a lot. i cried on and off for hours. I'm not exactly sure what comes next. wait and see i guess. wait and see.

well, its time to go get ready for work. I won't be home til after 7 tonight. I have my first day of school today and i'm both excited and fearful. excited because i want to move forward with my life and feel successful, fearful because i'm always a little nervous in new situations. i don't do well with change.

Bleh!

for the last several days i've been having issues with my internet.
I can't get to the VU site at all at www.venorultimus.com. i can't get to my email half the time. the other half of the time i can. and half of the time Google doesn't load either. :( but the rest of the internet works just fine.

now for the scary part.

Last night there was a fire in my backyard. i haven't actually seen the extent of the damage myself. i'm just barely out of the shower. but it was apparently pretty scarey and messed with the pipes. i'll update later. but that's it for now.
gotta go to work now.


have a good day.