I feel like this summer is breezing by.. way too quickly. WAAAY too quickly.
I got 5 rejection letters from the school district. One for the position I wanted at Denali, the 3 openings at Anne Wein, and the opening at Hunter. (Hunter and Denali are very close to my house and would have been HELLA convenient.) I have like 15 more applications out there in the wind... one at Arctic Light on FT WW, one at T-Brown in North Pole, two at Joy, two at Watershed, I feel like there's a bunch more that I'm forgetting. Clearly, since that's only 6. lol... anywho.... hopefully I at least get an interview somewhere... soon. sigh
Yesterday was AYP, a yearly music festival out at a park in Ester (like 20 mins outside of town) and we try to go each year, but we don't always make it. We had a complete BLAST, and the kids LOVED it. We took Cookie and she was living the doggie dog LIFE out there. lol It was a good time! Craig came and said hi, Tierney and Andy were there, Heather and Don showed up towards the end of it with their two horrible bratty dogs (they said they couldn't find a babysitter. UHM, leave them home alone?! they're DOGS! They both have KENNELS for a reason...) and we saw Lindsay and Jon and their two littles, who I adore. It was super fun, except for Don's dog trying to attack every other dog and being an asshole. :-\
We ran into Job and his mom out there, some of you probably remember that we watched him for the summer.. I think it was last year? His mom has lupus and his dad is a transitioning MtF who lives in WA. Interesting family! They were very easy-going when we had Job last year, which was nice. That kid has to be 4 now, still in pull-ups. He didn't seem to have developed much since last summer... I had always suspected there was something a little bit wrong with him, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Seeing him again sort of reinforced that, as he doesn't seem to have grown much at all... language skills are very rudimentary, doesn't seem to be capable of listening, still in pull ups. Anyways, I hope he'll be okay. He and Milo played with bubbles and danced and ran around together. It was cute :)
Kasin brought his friend Desi who lives around the corner from us, she's a really sweet girl with kind of a weird home life.. her parents obviously really care about her and want the best for her, but I don't think either one of them works, and sometimes she asks if she can stay late over here because she's afraid to go home on days when her dad has been at the bar for a long time. She says he gets mean. :( I've talked to him on the phone a few times and would have never guessed, but obviously that isn't the sort of thing you pick up through a couple casual conversations asking if his kiddo can ride along to go somewhere or if she's allowed in the pool, etc. Anyways, she practically lives here half the time, and she went with us out to Ester for AYP and she had Kasin had a blast. They climbed up this cliff face and explored this little cave in it, there was a playground and lots of dogs and a giant slip n slide, they had a good time. :)
Man, switching gears- I need advice for how to deal with Kasin and his weight gain... maybe I'm just freaking out too far in advance, but he has gained a LOT of weight over the last 6 or so months, like 20# ish, and he's only 9, and he's only 58" tall. He currently weighs 104lbs. He's NINE!! He's always been big for his age, his Dr estimates that he will be 6'4" as an adult, and when I expressed concern at his Well Child Check up in the spring, his Dr said he thought he was gaining appropriately. However, he was like 97lbs at that appointment. He looked at his growth curve on the charts and said that he was still gaining as much as often as he always had, so he wasn't concerned. However, now it seems like he's getting really chubby and not getting any taller... I know it's the general grow out and then up pattern, but if the UP part doesn't happen soon, I don't know what to do.
Milo is really really thin (and his ADHD meds make him not hungry, as well) and so I'm always trying to fatten him UP, which means there are little cookie snack bags and gold fish and salami and ramen and lots of peanut butter and other fatty foods around the house for Milo to have, but it's IMPOSSIBLE to keep Kasin out of that stuff at the same time. I push fruit and carrot sticks and yogurt, but he is ALWAYS hungry. Today, he's had a HUGE bowl of frosted mini-wheats, carrot sticks, grapes, yogurt, applesauce, a bowl of ramen noodles, a giant cookie that Ross brought home as a treat for the kids, a peanut butter and honey sandwich, and at least one nutri-grain bar. It's 3:25pm. That seems like plenty of food for a whole day, to me. lol
Any advice would be welcome. Be polite, though. I told him he was no longer allowed to buy soda or candy at the gas station without express permission, but I already caught him once with a bottle of Mello Yello soda (it's like Mt. Dew, YUCK) which I have previously told him he is not allowed to have (because that's way too much caffeine AND sugar.) which makes me wonder what I haven't caught him with... ugh. Honestly, we are in full swing with the sneaky, bossy, pre-teen nonsense. He is making me INSANE! It's getting harder to get him outside to play, too, which sucks... that being said, though, he swims most days and basketball season just ended, he'll be playing again in the fall, and he practices at the school ground pretty regularly, and jumps on Aiden's trampoline and rides his bike around quite a bit... we also do a lot of walking, to and from the school to play and to and from the library. Now that he has a phone he just sits on his bum and plays games on it until I hassle him to go do something else.
Anyhow.
In other, TMI news, my MIA period showed up, finally. I had an IUD put in after I had Milo, around 2 mo post-postpartum, and I've pretty much had non-stop spotting and/or bleeding since getting it in. (Yes, for 3.5yrs.) Every now and then it would stop for a week or two before going right back to spotting or full on bleeding. Not awesome. So when it didn't show up for 2 or 3 months, I was sort of panicked, but also too busy to really worry about it. I DID take a couple of pregnancy tests, but they were both negative, and I figured I would just roll with it and see what happened. So, glad that's finally back... I wonder if it'll stay back.
So, I reallllllly need a GOOD job, soon. I don't want to waste my time applying for positions I'm not going to get, and I really want a teaching position here in town, so I'm tempted to just wait and see what happens with the remaining applications I have out, but it's slow going and I have until mid-august before I can be SURE that I'm NOT getting anything.
I can reapply to be a sub with the district in August, which I will probably do if I don't get hired, but I've heard it's a bitch of a scheduling conflict, because none of the schools do building subs anymore, so you have to get online and fight for openings every mornings... I don't look forward to that. But it's $18/hr, which is more than I've ever made anywhere.
We are really getting over our heads with rent, shit keeps coming up that prevents us from paying... and Ross is seriously just not concerned at all. He just doesn't even try to pay rent. From his perspective, if he can't pay it ALL, he shouldn't bother with it at all. So he just doesn't pay anything. I'm only making about $1400 a month babysitting, but I don't get it all at once.. I get two really small paydays every other week and another smallish one on the alternating weeks. This Friday, I'll get $350. Then the next Friday, I get $420. Even if I put ALL of my money towards rent, which I honestly CANT do, it's not enough to catch up from where we are. We're too far behind.
Stress. Job. Now. Please. K Thnx.
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