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.