Its been a while...

Hello my friend.

I appologize for my absence and plead your understanding.

Its been a while because there's been so much, without the words or time in which to express recent events.

He's had a job, For a little over two weeks helping an pending-in-law in NJ. Off this week and hopefully just until the first of the month. Horray. I'm estatic, it's a job and income, and a little bit of security.

I'd like to think it's helping, even though the cost of everything else is increasing. Asi es la vida. Only so much complaining one can do about things when it's out of my control. It's a supply and demand kind of world. I'm just over the income bracket for a lot of aid. Lucky though that I did get the grand from the hospital for the $13k+ I owed that the medicaid step down program wouldn't cover. Although recently got a letter from a lawyer about the tests (radiology) bills from March. I called about 3 months ago with my medicaid information and apparantly the office didn't do their job. I'll handle that when I have the time to call. You know lawyers, only open 9-5 M-F. I'll call next week.

The kids are growing so fast. Both up late at night recently. I'm less strict I think when their father's home. I had Kara Shae going to bed at 8:30-9:00pm every night (she's an early riser at about 5:30-6:00am) and Liv to bed between 9:30-10:30pm depending on the movie we watched before bed to wind down (she usually sleeps until I wake her to get ready for the sitters'). Kara Shae thinks Liv is the funniest thing. Wants to play with her and touch her, and Liv won't give her the time of day besides complaining that her sister is touching her. Kara isn't really crawling yet. She's pulling herself using her arms, but doesn't quite get her chub-a-lub legs under her. I'll have to put a picture of the girls on here, a recent one so you can see my little precious natural disasters. I say that in the most loving way. They love to play and I love to play with them, but the living room and Liv's bedroom look like a tornado ran through the house. *smiles* Liv's pretty good with trying to help clean up, when she's in the mood.

Liv was singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star last night and I couldn't help but almost cry. Its the little things that satisfy me sometimes. She's a darling. She doesn't know all the words, but she gets through the whole song. Some words are still hard for her, seeing she's not yet 3. But she does the best she can and I love her for trying. I have to encourage her growth and it's wonderful to see her try. She's such a shy girl normally, I'm glad to see her so free sometimes.

Kara is a ball. Her fuzzy little blonde head. Her chubby little physique. She's so curious and laid back most of the time. She's happy rolling around on the floor and watching her sister play. Hearing her laugh is unbelievable. I am so blessed with these little two little girls. I can't wait until Kara's a little older to play more with her big sister. We play now, but it's limited do to her age, but Pat-A-Cake is one of her favorites. Both kids love to sit and hear Mom read a story. Very attentive.

Father's day morning 2 trees fell in the yard between my house and the neighbor's house. Luckily Jim had already torn down the roof of the back porch otherwise there would have been more damage. Hopefully the contractor hired to remove the trees will come today, it's been raining this week so it's been put off. It missed the main house structure. about 3-4 more inches and it would have ended up in Kara's room (where she was sleeping) and through the kitchen. We were very lucky. The recent thunderstorms have had lots of trees down in NY. The neighbor's house was barely missed too. Unforetunately we haven't had a chance to get the zoning map to see who's property the trees are on. We're splitting the cost of the contractor for the tree removal.

At work I'm only at 26% sales. It's better than last month. I'll keep working on it, but I'm not sweating the small stuff. Missed Tai Chi again this week. Too tired after work and Liv wanted to play. How can I say no to that little girl when she says, 'Mommy p-ay me.' It's been 3 weeks since I've gone, but according to Sis we didn't miss much. I'll have to start practicing again at home what we've learned so far so the next time I go I won't have forgotten everything.

Neice is 12. Wow. Can't believe it's been that long, she's responsible, intelligent, beautiful. She's great with the girls and I appreciate her enthusiasm to see them.

I have to go now, Kara is up and wants to play. Thanks for reading. Thanks for your patience and for always beeing there. Thank you for taking time out of your day for me.