This is going to be an exciting month! I believe that I have spent all but 2 days since my departure from the hotel with my sisters and Lily. Lily hasn't been to Kistachie National Forest, so Rebecca wanted to surprise her. It was such a day. Our Trip to Kisatchie The next morning I was so tired, sore, and still had sand in my mouth. I see on my phone, "hey do you want to go to a magic show?" Well NO. And then we went to a magic show. Scott was off the weekend, and we honestly didn't do much besides grocery shop and watch sports. I went to church on Sunday, and we napped. A lot. I did spend most of Friday combing through job postings, and submitting my resume. Monday morning at 8:30am, I got a call wanting me to come in and put in an application. She ended up giving me my assessment test and doing an interview. I start tomorrow! I am deceased. I prayed so hard for this, and I am praying for strength to be able to do this. It is nothing that I have done before, but I am pretty teachable, so we shall see. I wish that I would have kept a journal from my first day of working until now. I am nowhere near where I need to be learning all of this, I have never been in finance before, I had no idea how much legal stuff there was to learn, you have to have a basic business math sense, and you have to be professional and tight lipped about what goes on in your office. How do I have this job? I do like it, as I said I have a ton to learn, but it is starting to make a lot more sense. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, so I can't talk about anything that goes on or who comes in, BUT, I will sneak out that a woman (that I know) came in pretending to be her own (made up) twin sister. This is going to be fun :) :) I did have another first this month (as an adult), I got into my first car accident. Nothing major, I was just scared and wanted my mom, lol. The cop asked for my DL and registration, I was like, is that in my glove box? I was driving home from work, the Jeep in front of me stopped, I stopped, and then boomshakala, the SUV behind me did not. She admitted fault, and the insurance check is in the mail. I don't really have much of anything to tell, didn't get to see the family much, aside from Sundays at church. Lily makes me proud: Jacob makes my heart swell. Scott and I are in an ongoing battle over who should get to put their keys next to the light switch. We have called a truce, and decided that whoever has to leave for work the earliest gets the spot. He leaves at 5:30am, I don't leave until 7:45, but his days off rotate, and I am Mon-Fri. Tomorrow is my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL That is all I have for now! Send happy thoughts and good vibes to one another. People need more love in this world.
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Granted we never plan things well, the fam and I were going to take Lily to Longleaf Vista, and let her go see the water at the Bayou. Easy peasy. It was not easy peasy. We were there for hours, we hiked, we waded, and on two different occasions, I had to crawl upward on my hands and knees. On the way there, Rebecca asked "are you excited for your surprise?", and Lily goes, "uh mommy, there are just trees...." We walked the trails, then climbed the steepest set of manmade stairs in the world, then climbed down another trail, only to go up another one of these butte things! Bailey and I before, and then after the adventure. After two hours of sweating, walking, climbing, and crawling, it was time for a highly nutritional lunch of kale and grilled chicken. As you can see....... We were on the road again! I was so excited to see her face when she saw the water. Lily wasn't having it. She didn't like the algae. I lost count of how many times my flip flop fell off and floated down the rapids. So we then ventured off to find "the place that Bailey and Dylan go to". Also, do you see what Lily is doing? On the way back this is relevant. She stops to pick up every stick, run her hands against every branch, and makes little piles in every available pile of sand. We walked for what seemed like hours. There were trails, there were bridges, and in some places, there wasn't anything. Just prayers and ravines. Finally....I saw the hill of sand! There is no graceful way to get down this thing. I consider rolling, lol, but I never would have lived that down. I ended up just kind of digging my heels in and surfing down. Completely exhausted from a) hours of walking, b) being fat and out of shape, and c) I did not bring the first Diet Dr. Pepper, when I reached the "beach" area, I just plopped on the ground. Hard. Big mistake. My hip.......popped. I wanted to cry out loud, but I didn't want to scare Lily. Or more importantly get made fun of by my sisters, haha. It still hurts 2 days later. I have been having trouble with it for about a month now, I can't lie on my back or sit comfortably on the couch. Straight back chairs for me. And yet I go plopping down with all my weight on the dang hard ground. Whut. I should suffer. Anyway, we all made it to the water, and Lily loved it. I told her we needed to make a video of her swimming for her Daddy. One day I will remember to turn my phone sideways before filming. Paw prints from what could only be a grizzly bear.... I meant what I said about this hill. There is no way up. When you step, you slide back down. You sink more in. Lily weighs like 40 pounds and made it, but still struggled. When she got to the top, I told her to catch my keys and my phone. "No!!!!"....and off she ran. Okay, cool. It was terrible, ya'll. I was not only concerned dying here, alone, miles from the nearest road with no caffeine or Cheese Itz, and then I knew I had at least a couple of miles walk to the car. But I made it. It was ugly. Once we all made it, we just kind of stood there, like damnhell, we have to walk all of this again. When we got to the part after we crawled over the ravine, there was a fork and we could go back the way we came, OR, followed the arrows nailed into the tree. Nothing could have been as bad as the trip there, so I voted that we followed the trail. So maybe I was wrong. Maybe it was ALL uphill and we all died. Maybe Lily stopped 3,333,444,222 times to pick up sticks, and make sand castles. Finally, we saw the light. It was the highway. We were a good 20 minutes from the car, but at least somewhere that people could find our bodies. It wasn't so bad until Lily fell and scraped her knees. She doesn't do blood. We had it all planned out when we got to the car, we were all going to shake off the sand, change clothes, put my shoes in the trunk..... We did none of these things. We got to the car, slapped a Band aid on Lily, and high tailed it out of there. I did manage to get a ton of pics which I will add to my website. Lily had fun, we got to bond, and the weather was nice! I give it a TEN! |
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