Can you hear it?

do you hear them this morning, the birds chirping, the air is lighter, people are becoming happier, please say that there is no more snow. I am optimistic in that spring is about ready to  burst through. It has been a long winter!

So looking forward to my flowers

And just being outside and being warm and having deck parties and having the kids play until I have to drag them in at night because of it being a school night! I am so ready for the change of weather and a change in life... I continue to pray to see what God has in store for me...

This is a beautiful weekend in the celebration of the Rising of Christ - what a beautiful weekend it is going to be!

I hope everyone is doing well and is as excited about Spring coming as I am....

Have a beautiful and blessed Easter weekend!

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,

Say it Ain't S.N.O.W.

tell me I didn't hear that word on the weather forecast this morning. C'mon - it is almost April, where is Spring. Can you believe this time last year it was 80+degrees... oh the joys of Cincinnati weather. I refuse to wear a winter coat - I am so done with them and I know the boys are too.

We are headed into volleyball tournaments for the boys team I coach with the help of Mindy! We finished with a winning season - I am so excited for them. They actually are starting to have fun and have used the things that we have taught them. Tomorrow we are going to scrimmage them, 3 on 6, so we will see if my knee survives :) - We have learned that if we bribe them with something then they play better and they have a goal at the end.

Whatever works right LOL

I hope everyone is doing well. It is the weekend at least, but yet another busy one!!!

Stay warm and do the S.N.O.W. dance so we don't get any. Ha, Ha, Ha.

Have a GREAT weekend!

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,

Decisions we Make

sometimes making decisions really sucks - you know! Especially when it comes to families. We have all made bad decisions, I am the queen of bad decision making, believe me. I just bring this up because there is an employee here whose father is having a triple bypass surgery as we speak. Well, this employee uses his vacation days as he gets them, he never saves them and because of that decision he isn't at the hospital with his dad because he can't afford to take a day off. It tears me up because I want to say go take the day off we will pay you for it, but I can't. Because others have had to use vacation days. It is just a consequence of using your vacation hours as you have accrued them.  You should save them for something like this is all I could tell him.

Speaking of decisions: I often wonder about decisions of owner's of companies. We had this in depth conversation about it yesterday at lunch. If you are an employee for a company and you help build it, you work your ass off for years, you pour in sweat and tears and time away from family, when the company is sold, do you reap any of the benefits of that or does the owner keep it all. This came up because a co-worker of mine went through it as we all have and she was saying that she was expecting to get something and got nothing. I am torn in that yes you did work hard for the company, but the owner has such a huge personal risk in that no one normally sees. They just see the work that they do and not the risk that the owner has to go through. Not to say that there shouldn't be some type of reward for those employees who have worked there maybe more than a certain number of years. But then there was another co-worker and he experienced the opposite where the owner shared some of the earnings, not by any means 50-50, but the owner did give the long term employees something - I think it makes the employees feel appreciated and make them realize the decision they made to work for that company was a good one, and the owner realizes that he wouldn't have been getting all of those earnings if it wasn't for dedicated employees. I know there are arguments on both sides - it is interesting to hear people's opinions of it. I don't care either way. I have been on both ends of it.

I guess I will find out soon, as our company is probably going to be sold at the end of the year. Makes me kind of nervous if I will have a job next year or not. I know, I complain a lot about it, but it is a job and I have Catholic tuition to pay :) BUT yet, today I have to make the decision of when I am going to Australia - ugh! It is just hard because I have never been away from the boys, including Steve that long - and I don't think we can swing him going with me.


Decisions, Decisions, they suck sometimes.

Ugh!

Happy Thursday!

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,

1st Day Of Spring - so they say!

can you believe that it is really the 1st day of Spring. If it weren't for the sun shining you wouldn't know it, it is so cold.... Ugh!

March is almost over - I can't believe it, well, yes I can. We have been so busy for the past 3 weeks with volleyball, soccer and baseball starting, with homework and coaching and with just being with family and friends - it has been craziness.

So I have this opportunity at work, you know the place I don't like :), but our CEO in Australia wants me to come over for a visit to see how they run their facility over there. Well, I know it is nothing like over here, because Australians don't work, they live their life and have a great balance of family and work. One co-worker told me that they (she works in Australia) get 3 months off work paid for working at the same company for 10 years!! I am so moving there LOL

Any way, so I am presented with this opportunity. Several things are standing in my way:

 - Time away from the boys, ugh - it would be like 10 days
 - I HATE to fly, really hate it. So for me to be on a plane that long just thinking about it is giving me
anxiety
 - Finding the time to go, Steve is traveling, end of school year activities, sports activities, I don't know if there is going to be a perfect time.
 - Did I mention, I HATE flying!!!

So it is a big decision to make, I'll continue to pray about it and see where God leads me.

I hope everyone is having a great 1st day of Spring!, At least it isn't snowing, not today anyway LOL

Happy Hump Day!

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,

Getting Beat Up

this has been a rough week - getting beat up a lot, mainly at work. From being told that I don't know what I am doing, to dealing with stupid issues from people - it has been a rough one and it is only Thursday - Ugh!

I found it rather appropriate this morning as I was driving in and talking to God to give me the strength to get through this day, this song came on!


"Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)"

I saw you standing in the middle of the thunder and lightning
I know you're feeling like you just can't win, but you're trying
It's hard to keep on keepin' on, when you're being pushed around
Don't even know which way is up, you just keep spinning down, 'round, down…

Every storm runs, runs out of rain
Just like every dark night turns into day
Every heartache will fade away
Just like every storm runs, runs out of rain

So hold your head up and tell yourself that there's something more
And walk out that door,
Go find a new rose, don't be afraid of the thorns
'Cause we all have thorns
Just put your feet up to the edge, put your face in the wind
And when you fall back down, keep on rememberin'

Every storm runs, runs out of rain
Just like every dark night turns into day
Every heartache will fade away
Just like every storm runs, runs out of rain

It's gonna run out of pain
It's gonna run out of sting
It's gonna leave you alone
It's gonna set you free
Set you free

Every storm runs, runs out of rain
Just like every dark night turns into day
Every heartache will fade away
Just like every storm runs, runs out of rain

It's gonna set you free,
It's gonna run out of pain,
It's gonna set you free

Happy Thursday!

Miss and love you dad ~ so  much.

Much love and happiness to all

I need a drink!

okay so I may have mentioned a few times on here how I hate my job, but who doesn't hate their job right. Today, I especially hate the position I am in, as I have to be the representative for the company and go to a funeral today for an employee's son who passed away at 8 months old! UGH!!!!... I don't do funerals very well anyway, and I hate doing the gasket thing and especially since dad passed away, I just don't do well at them. So needless to say, I will be a mess this afternoon, having to do this and just knowing...

Luckily I talked a fellow co-worker in to going with me and we will both be a mess as we are mothers and we just do not understand why things like this happen. I know it is God's will, but why must he take them so young. No parent should ever have to bury their child, ever!

So yes, after we deliver the food and pay our condolescenes we will be headed to the local bar to have a drink to numb it all. I didn't realize being in this position at work, that I would have to do things like this. I think I am going to have to ask for a raise if I am going to be the face of the company at functions, especially these type of things. Goodness!

I hope everyone enjoyed the last snowfall, that is right, I am confident that it was the last one of the season - Woo Hoo!... Spring fever has definitely hit our home and I am so ready to be outside again. It is suppose to be nice this weekend, so hopefully I can wash my car one last time of the snow/salt/yuck... and we can just enjoy being out and not cooped up. I can't wait for that first warm spring day to where I can open the windows up and let all of the fresh air in - I can feel it now :)

I hope everyone has a better Friday than I am going to have - enjoy your family and give your kids an extra big hug today.

Have a great weekend!

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,

Not sure how much soccer will be played

with the three little monkeys playing together: Lydia, Will and Logan and guess who the coach is - Sean! Goodness, what have we done :). J/K... It just worked out that Logan's last year coach was not coming back this season and Sean had signed his kids up to play in the same league. They were looking for coaches, so Sean volunteered. When he went to the meeting, he found out Logan was on his team without us even asking for him to be - of course the kids are SUPER excited. Probably because they think it is going to be play time all of the time. But Sean said Game On! Oh goodness.

March 1st - so excited that dreary February is over. I don't care if it rains the whole month of March but just to be able to say that makes me super excited that warm weather is around the corner. March is extremely busy for us, with me coaching Brayden's volleyball team along with Aunt Mindy, lots of games and practices between that and Logan's soccer - it is going to be a crazy month. Just need to take it one day at a time, one day at a time.

I hope everyone is doing well! I know I haven't been on here much but so busy. We have a big meeting today at work, big changes coming, once I find out I will let you know - my two big readers :)

Happy Friday everyone - enjoy the weekend. And have you noticed the days are starting to get longer - minute by minute. Woo Hoo.

Miss and love you dad ~ so much.

Much love and happiness to all,