8 week already....

It's been 8 weeks since Quinn's birth. Time has gone by so fast. He is growing so fast. He's cooing a lot and smiling a lot. He loves to see Rayne too..as soon as he sees her, he starts smiling. Rayne is still battling with her eczema and it's so frustrating for her and us. She is so itchy. Spring is so hard on all of us. Allergies really bite. I hope Quinn does not suffer with them. Everything on the home front is okay. We have our good days and our bad. Rayne has been a bit better with her attitude. She hates being sent to her room so that is working for now it seems. That and I added another rule that if she is disrespectful or doesn't obey, then she gets to earn her next meal by doing chores. We'll see how that goes. She seems to think that she doesn't have to listen all the time..she can selectively listen to us. Yeah right. Anyway...

Biography stuff

I left off at moving to Alaska..yes Alaska...and the generosity of some friends to take me in for a time after my move. I started working at McD's which we all know I hated with every fiber of my being. Hated it. I had to get up at 4am to be there at 5:30 and I hate mornings with a passion. But I loved being in Alaska and was having so much fun with my friends. I remember one of the friends..the one that helped me drive the Alcan highway, bought a camper so I decided to clean it for him to thank him. It was really dirty. But I love camping and it was a cute little camper. I don't know whatever happened to it though. I can't remember. I'm sure he must have sold it. Both my friends worked at the airport in Kenai at the time, so it was kinda fun to fly to Anchorage some times for really cheap. I remember there was one time that the airline had an annual dance and we got to fly to Anchorage and stay in the hotel there and they served awesome food and it was really fun. It was so weird to see how the sun never really sets in the summer time. It was still very light out at midnight. And still like dawn at 3am. But it's good that it only lasts during the summer, because no night can get old. Just like very little daylight, which was the case in the winter. I remember the sun barely got above the short treeline in the winter and only for a couple of hours. I would get up to go to my pizza delivery job at noon and the sun was just getting up to the tree line and then it was set again by 4pm. That got really old, really fast. So did the bitter cold. Have you ever had to go and start your car every 2 hours so it would start in the morning? It gets old. Kind of like getting up with a baby I guess, lol. One time I got up for my shift (we took turns) and I fell asleep on the floor in the living room and when the next shift came, the cars were still running. Needless to say, he didn't have to do his shift, lol. When the temperature finally gets warm enough to snow...it's Tshirt weather over there. That's an almost 60 degree rise in temps. It goes from 30-40 below zero to 32...it's crazy. And when it snows...it doesn't just snow a couple of inches...it snows like 3 feet at once. Alaska is a place full of new things if you have never been there. Extreme weather, extreme days/nights, awesome fishing...it's just a whole other world up there. I would love to go back some day. Never to live..the winters are too harsh..but to visit...that would be awesome. It's so beautiful in the summer. And the moose calves are so cute..and there are twins a lot. Man those things are huge. I have been very close to a bull moose for a very very short time..I immediately got back in my car and drove away. Well I think that's enough for one night. Quinny keeps stirring.

Happy Mother's Day

To all Mommies out there. Does that mean we all get the day off...completely?? Yeah right. I wouldn't do that to my children. So for the updates first...Quinn is still doing great...aside from having Thrush and passing it to me..so we are dealing with that. It's not comfortable for Mom I can say that..hopefully he isn't bothered too much by it. He is still sleeping fairly well at night..some nights he needs to nurse more than others. Rayne is still really battling with her eczema and wheezing attacks. She woke up in the middle of the night with a wheezing attack and itching all over so we had to give her some Benadryl. I wish she could outgrow this junk. Or that we could figure out if there are underlying food issues or something. It seems to be every spring though that it gets really bad. Dave and I started classes again..yay. And we each have to make up for having the first 6 weeks off for Quinn's arrival. Double yay. We are still working on Rayne's behavior..she had a couple of good days and some not so good moments today and tonight.

And now for the biography stuff.

So I wrote about the college stuff last time. Now for the after college stuff. Right after I decided to go live up in upstate New York on a dairy farm with some friends for a while. We were supposed to save up and take a trip to Europe together..but my 2 friends were dating and they decided to get married instead and start their life together. So hmph. I stayed up there for 3 months and worked through a temp agency at a paper mill. There was a very nice young man that worked there..however he was somewhat obsessed with me and I didn't care for that much. He sent me flowers all the time and made "jokes" about how we were going to get married. It actually got get get very old and he was SO upset when I told them all I was leaving and moving back to Wa. State. Oh well...I hope he's happy today. So after that I decided it wasn't for me up there..although I love Northeast..especially Vermont..it's beautiful. I moved back to Wa. State and back in with the parents. I rode a train from Plattsburgh, NY to Pasco, Wa..3 days and it was wonderful. I had time to think and read and it was SO beautiful going cross country and not driving. I wish I had the camera I have now! So when I got back home I got a job as a preschool teacher at Kindercare and loved the job. I worked in the 3 and 4 year old room and eventually became lead teacher in there. I worked a lot of hours and really did love it. I loved all my kids and we had a lot of fun. I decided to go on vacation after a little over a year and decided to go see some friends in Alaska. It was SO much fun..I had never been there before. I LOVED it up there. In fact, I loved it so much...I decided to go home, put my 2 weeks notice in and move to Alaska. Before I left from my vacation I had acquired a job at the McDonald's up there and went home to break the news. Of course the parents were none too thrilled with rash decision like that, understandably..but I was stubborn and had made up my mind. So I moved to Alaska 2 weeks later. My friend flew to Seattle and met me there to help me drive my car on the Alcan highway to Alaska. That trip was a blast. We pretty much drove round the clock aside from a couple of short breaks. One of the breaks was at a natural hot springs that was so awesome. It felt so great we had to nap in the car..we were exhausted. The lakes on the way were a aqua marine color, which I now know to be because of the minerals in the water from being a glacier fed natural body of water...aren't I smart?? I again, which I had my camera I have now. At one point when we had crossed into the state of Alaska there was massive rainbow that stretched all the way across the sky. I tried to get pictures..but couldn't fit it all in. I have no idea where those pictures are..packed away somewhere. Someday I will do a scrapbook. So 2 incidents occured on that trip...one being my friend driving too fast around a corner with gravel and we ended up in the ditch..thankfully we weren't go THAT fast and we weren't hurt and there was a truck that came by shortly after and towed us out. And then in Anchorage..the friend of mine rear ended someone at a light and I believe they totalled the guys old icky car...that was not fun. And then we finally made it to Kenai, Alaska. That's when I started getting really nervous and doubting my decision to move there. But once I met the people I was going to be staying with, I felt better. They were really nice and welcomed me into their home. It's weird that their kids are probably all grown now and the youngest was only 4 when I was there. Man, time goes by so quickly. I think I will leave it here for now..I'm tired of typing.