Hi

This summer has been very busy. And it has been very fast. WOW it’s already the middle of August!

Spent most of the time at my main job cleaning carpets and moving furniture in preparations for the fall. Got my building’s carpet done on Wednesday! just in time for the football team to move in. Traing started this week for the fall season. And next Friday the Freshmen move in with the returning students on Sunday. Classes start the following Wednesday the 26th.

But a lot has happened. Madelyn is almost 7 months and she is growing fast. She had her first plane ride and visit to Florida and the beach. We stayed with my grandparents. They were excited to meet their first great-grandchild! We had a blast. Jen and I also moved. . .again. We just moved upstairs and down the hall to a bigger apartment. This one is 1300 sq ft and we only pay 250 a month since we are caretakers. And that has been a trip in and of itself.

i work three jobs. My main one is where i am now, at the moment. It was my turn to open on Saturday, Jen works at ten so Madelyn will have to hang out with me at work for about an hour. I also work retail (where Jen is working today) and as caretaker. A lot of work. If it wasn’t for Jen’s help on the caretaking, I’d have flipped out by now. I have been ver tired lately to boot. I get home at 8:30pm most evenings and am in bed by 9:30 so I can get up at 4 to clean the apt lobby and set the sprinklers. And I am at NWC by 6.

for a while there was tension with me and Jen. a lot of it was because I would be very moody when I am over tired. It is hard for me not to respond in a snappy, pissy way. It would grate on Jen and she would return the attitude. And it isn’t her fault. But for me, I am not feeling upset, but it was as if my body was on auto pilot and doing an auto-response thing since I was so tired. Because in my mind, I wasnt upset or angry. We spent a lot of time in prayer and I confided in a friend about it and it has helped a lot. God has been working on me in this area. I am cutting back my hours at the retail job and Jen is picking up an extra shift. She makes more than I do so my cutting half my shifts and she picks up one extra shift a week, we’ll make the same amount. Plus we will have family day every Sunday. Also, when I am home and Jen goes to work, I try to squeeze in a nap while Madelyn is napping. A nap does wonders!

Anyway, I should go move the base of the carseat from my car into the work van because when I pick up Maddie, she and I need to go on the mail run.

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