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.