Change is in the Air

Change is wonderful. I LOVE CHANGE. Ask J, I love to rearrange our furniture, I love to change up our decor, I like to try new things, explore new places.... change rocks. J made a BIG change today, he got a new job! It pays a little more than his last job, we get affordable health insurance, AND my favorite part.... he will be home for dinner EVERY night! His schedule goes something like this: every work he works from 5:30am-5:30pm and he has a set schedule. He works Monday, works Tuesday, off Wednesday, work Thursday, off Friday, work Saturday, work Sunday, off Monday, off Tuesday, work Wednesday, off Thursday, work Friday, and off for the weekend.... and then you start all over again. He's excited, I'm excited... and Boogie is ALWAYS excited! I guess you can tell when I'm excited in my blog posts because I do THIS! LOL!


The only not so fun part about this new job is that we're having to change up our vacation plans. We originally had planned on taking a week long vacation in Gatlinburg with a day trip to Knoxville... but now that he no longer works doubles on weekends with week breaks in between that just isn't possible. So. New plan. We'll leave on a Sunday night after J gets off, spend Monday morning in Knoxville, Monday evening in Gatlinburg (with a fun dinner at the Melting Pot!), and Tuesday will be spent in Pigeon Forge and driving home. Justin will work Wednesday, be off Thursday, and then work on Friday. That night we'll drive to Asheboro, stay the night, and then wake up on Saturday morning to spend the day at the zoo! Then we'll drive to Concord, stay the night, wake up and spend the day shopping and then drive home. It's definitely more driving, and not what we were hoping for in a vacation, but it will be fun nonetheless!



What else is changing? Boogie took 2 crawling "steps" today... and I missed it. Lamesauce. So hopefully that means she'll be mobile very very soon! She's also on the verge of cutting her second tooth! You know what else all this means? I've had a cranky, tired, non-sleeping baby this week! This whole sleep thing is hard. I'm stuck in the middle of wanting to just co-sleep and enjoy the baby cuddles and lovings I get... and wanting to somehow get her to sleep in her own bed, in her own room. It's a tough decision. I'm not a fan of cry it out methods, I hope to find a method that won't involve so much hysterical tears and crying. The way I see it... no matter what happens, she's not going to be sleeping in my bed forever. Someday she will want her own space... until then, I'm just along for the ride!


Guess what else is changing? THE LEAVES. No, really. It's not a drastic change yet... but a tree in our yard is slightly turning and there were leaves in our yard today! That means FALL is just on the horizon! Hallelujah! I can't wait!


I'm changing in many ways as well... I don't feel much like writing about it though because I'm not exactly sure how to put what is changing in my life into words. But it's good. VERY good! So... anyways, I'm going to leave you with some of Boogie's 8 month pictures. 8 months... hard to believe!

Handling Changes

We are in our second weekend of Justin's new shift (doubles on the weekends, two 5-hour shifts during the week), and I think it's going fairly well. I spend the majority of the weekends at mom's, we work on crafts, love on Elah, and just enjoy being over at Nene's. It's definately strange being without Justin from basically Friday night- Monday morning, I guess in a way I'm experiencing a little bit of what a single parent goes through. Honestly, God bless all you single parents... I don't know how you do it! Elah is a great baby, but it's nice to have someone to hand her over to when her daddy gets home from work! And now that he works until 8 pm and has to be back in bed by 9pm to get enough sleep for the next day, there isn't much time in between for him to do much to help on the weekends. It's not so bad when I can get to mom's house, and really spending the day with Elah alone isn't bad at all, but I think we all know that everyone needs a break here and there! I can usually manage about 30-45 minutes to myself by putting Boogie in her door jumper, and our dear friend Christa is sharing her son's jumparoo so I'm sure that will help as well!

The plan for weekends was for me to have microwave, quick, easy food for dinners, but I'm not enjoying that so much... so I threw (well, not literally) Elah in the moby for a quick nap and I sauteed some zucchini, yellow squash, onions, and multi-colored bell peppers with a mesquite flavored chicken breast... and as soon as that's done I'm going to have it over quinoa! It's wierd cooking for one person, but most likely I'll have leftovers for Justin to have when he gets home (although he's not a fan of quinoa) or leftovers for tomorrow night!

Now that Elah is fast asleep on my chest, I think I'll go try to get some laundry done...but how much you want to bet she'll wake up as soon as I open that laundry room door....?