Baby It
May 10Well our 20 week ultrasound has come and gone and we’re still no closer to knowing whether we have a boy or girl joining our family in September. He or she had their legs together in a frog-like position so there was no way of knowing. My doctor did say we’ll try again next time, but I’m sick of getting my hopes up to find out only to get nothing. Our next appointment is June 7th and maybe we’ll find out then, but who knows. Everything else is looking good though regarding fluid, heart rate, size, etc.
Randy started work today doing the safety training. He officially starts his position tomorrow and will be working from 6am-10am M-F at first and then once he’s proven he will actually work and show up they will bump him up to 40 hours with his hours from 6am until 2pm. I love that it’s a first shift job and NO WEEKENDS = YAY. He can get mandated to do overtime on weekdays but we’re OK with that. He’s also starting a few dollars above minimum wage, which we are VERY excited about considering he’s been trying to get a job since October.
Now I suppose I should go to bed since he’s already there and I get to play taxi in the morning. Luckily, I get to go back to bed after though. Sleep = awesomesauce.
Job Found!
May 03As the title says, Randy got a job today. It’s at the textile factory as a production worker. He starts off at PT with 20 hours a week and moves up to FT after the probationary period. It’s only about 3 miles away so it’s incredibly convenient for transportation purposes. He went and took his drug test immediately after the interview. One drawback is that for the first six months you’re immediately fired if you miss a single day, no excuses (my mom worked there back in the 90′s and our house burned down so she missed the next day while looking for housing arrangements. They didn’t care) and I’m due to have the little one in about 4 months. I just hope I go into labor when he’s not working. If I do, at least I have my MIL to be there and the hospital is less than five minutes away so he can be there after. Right now he can’t be picky, especially with a very sketchy work history and 2 felonies on his record. He’s ecstatic about finally getting a job and I am too. It’s not perfect, but you need to start somewhere and this is his somewhere. I’m proud of him and hope that he escalates from PT into FT sooner rather than later.
I also had the condition that once he got a job we would go get the blazer. We worked out a deal with my mom to trade her our 2 door sunfire for her 4 door blazer (the transmission went out in it a few months back) so we can have a vehicle that is more ideal for a family. I hate the tiny trunk, the lack of space and hello, 2 door =/ carseats. She was going to give the blazer to my 20 year old brother after he got a job under the stipulation that he had to pay to get it fixed, but he’d rather have a car that requires no work. The car also only has 109,000 on it, the blazer has over 200,000. I don’t blame him and I’ve been itching to get rid of this car since the day I got it. As far as I know, it’ll be used by both my brother and sister to get to/from work or wherever since my dad has the primary vehicle in the house from about 5pm every day until roughly 8am. It makes it difficult to work around that schedule.
Tomorrow’s plans include going to the zoo and Randy’s going to work some more on getting the junk transmission out of the blazer. He’s been wanting to work on that for as long as I can remember. Such a gear head. We save so much money since he does all the mechanical work on our vehicle. He doesn’t want to do it as a profession though because it’ll take the fun out of his passion. I see where he’s coming from.
We Moved!
Apr 24As the title says, we found a place and moved since I last updated. Our primary struggle was finding a place that would allow us to move in without verification of income because we’ve been surviving off of income tax returns, student loans and grant money from college. We have enough to pay everything, but ovbiously landlords want to cover their behinds.
We managed to find a trailer park where they were understanding of our situation (moving closer to parents, job seeking here, parole, etc) and they agreed to give us a shot. I think offering the security and first month’s rent the next day certainly helped that too.
My MIL even stayed at our house before we moved for 3 days to help organize/pack because Randy is horrible at organization and I’m 19 weeks pregnant right now and can’t exactly be helping to lift anything heavy. Luckily I like my in-laws. ^_^
We live about 5 minutes from Randy’s parents and about 10 from mine in the back of the community. We have a pond off to the left of us and the creek runs directly behind us. It’s $700/month for 2 bedroom but it includes everything (propane, electric, water, garbage) and is perfect for our family of 3 and will accommodate our expansion in September as well. I’m glad I never got rid of my apartment sized washer/dryer because I hate laundromats. Oh, we also have a really large shed for storage.
Otherwise Randy is continuing on his job search and I have 3 weeks left of the semester. I’m trying to keep my work load balanced so I don’t get overwhelmed trying to finish all the papers/projects. 2 classes are completely done so far and 1 other one has some light work left. I have a final still for psych, need to work with my group to write a suppression motion for criminal procedure and have a final paper for English to write too. Bah. Baby steps baby steps.
Next weekend we’re going to the pond for a family picnic with the in-laws. Fun times indeed.
