My Bokeh Life

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Jake vs Tree

In the sad, sad story of Jake verses tree, the tree wins. There's no other way to say it, Jake ran into a tree last Thursday. I think it's pretty obvious from the picture what part of his body he hit the tree with. He got a concussion. He had every symptom, the fixed eyes, blurry vision, slurred speech, headache, etc. The next morning he said he was feeling better and wanted to go to school. But it didn't take long before I got a phone call at work. He said some of his symptoms were returning, so off to the doctor we went. Doc said as long as he continues to get better, he'll be okay! Plus, no broken cheek bone. We made him go home and rest and by the end of the weekend, he was feeling better. Thank goodness!

This pic was taken a couple days after it happened and doesn't due the swelling justice. I'm sure he'll have a fantastic black eye soon!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Changes around our place

The new year has brought some changes our way. Last Friday, X Factor was moved to another home. His problems proved to be too great for our family to handle. He was still throwing things at Ellie's face and hurting her. We were also having great deal of other behavioral problems with him. It got to the point where we couldn't do anything as a family. Wayne wasn't coming home after work. Jake was hiding in his room. Ellie starting acting out and against him at times. And I was going crazy. Once I realized he was having such a negative effect on us as a family, I asked that he be moved. It was time to put my family first. It was sad to see him go, but it needed to happen. I feel good about my decision and it has already proved to be what our family needed. At this point, we don't plan on taking another placement even though our license doesn't expire until the end of March. I have mixed emotions about this. Some days I'm okay with it and others I'm not.

Just after the new year, I accepted a position as an office assistant for a company that does developmental therapies. It's going okay. It's very part time, just one full day a week, but right now I am working 2-3 full days a week while the main gal is recovering from having a baby. The one day a week would have been a nice supplement to foster care, but now that we don't intend to continue that, I need to find more work. I applied with FedEx this week. So we'll see what happens there. I think my current job has great potential and the staff is amazing, but I'm doubtful that the potential will come soon enough.

And as you can see from my previous post, evenings have been busy with hunter's ed. I'm sooooo happy this was only a two week course. It was fun to take it with Jake. It was nice to have that one on one with him. He is such a great boy. I can't believe he is 14 now! That's right. His birthday was last weekend.

For his birthday, we took him out to eat to the restaurant of his choice. He chose Primos, the all you can eat pizza buffet. Afterwards, we went to the RV show and did some dreaming. We had a good time.

I'm not sure what changes will come next.....hopefully our house selling!

Friday, January 27, 2012

Hunter's Education

Jake and I have been taking hunter's ed the last couple of weeks. Tonight was our last class and test. We both passed!! And they gave us these wonderful orange hats. I can't say that I'll every use my license for hunting, but thought the class would be good since we like to target shoot.

Jake 98%......Christine 97%
I don't think I'll ever hear the end of this one!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

I reached my goal

I reached my goal of growing out my hair to 21" long......and even more importantly, I won the bet with Wayne!

It only took me 18 months. Not too long since I had a short cut when I started and had at least 3" cut off over that time. I've already been looking at new haircuts. I'll post what I end up doing. I don't plan on going real short again, but maybe something just below the shoulders.