Updates

Bruce is 11 month today. He is walking pretty good! He can stand up without pulling himself up with anything. It’s so nice to be able to set him down somewhere where you don’t want him on his butt, set him on his feet. Unless he does the arch his back, I want to be held thing. When I’ve been rocking him to sleep, I just started thinking "wow, I’m holding onto a toddler", His legs drape over me, it’s not the same little baby hold! I’ve truly treasured every moment and do enjoy the new milestones, except for the being able to climb up on one of our couches. We have flipped the cousin upright so he can’t get up there, means we can’t sit there either. I don’t know what we’re going to do when he can get on the other couch. I’ve joked saying that we’re going to have to put our furniture in storage and use bean bag chairs! I’m not too concerned about the walking like people warn me about. He’s been walking pushing things on wheels for months now. So I don’t know how it’s really going to be different, except maybe not getting ran into. Now when he grabs one of those toys, he runs. He doesn’t get it yet to not run into people or cats.

As for work. I’m trying to just do my job. The hard part is I can’t NOT do all the orders. I have noone to back me up, people’s cakes have to be done when they come to pick them up. Things seem to be slowing back down, maybe. Just like that we have 3 new people 3! ::rolls eyes:: It’s about time. MGR isn’t confident about the newest morning one. She doesn’t think she’s going to be able to keep up. I’m not sure if she’s just being negative. I work with her Sunday, so I’ll get my own opinion. Cake decorator starts next week I think. I don’t think she’s ever worked in a bakery. Just done cakes at home. The other one, is from the Deli. She’s currently taking Wilton’s classes, so she’s really interested, but we are not having her so she can decorate. She only has worked one day and it was with me. I couldn’t get her to stop watching me. I had to finally stop decorating so she’d do what she was supposed to be doing. I have a feeling she’s a hard worker, she’s going to work hard to get the minimal done, then play around with the frosting. The problem with our dept is that only one person is on staff. Noone is there to watch you. A lot of our people "play" back there. I was a little bothered yesterday. Right before my MGR left she had said that Kathy (front end MGR, who is always causing trouble), said "to light a fire under LeeAnn’s butt". My MGR said I’m working hard. WTH, I’m working my butt off, I only work 3 days a week, YOU need to deal with the other days, I can’t! Then I talked to this other MGR, we chit chat about our kids often. I told her "I know better than to that that comment bother me but I kinda wish MGR hadn’t told me that". MGR told her the comment and she agreed, she’s just sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. I’m working hard. You can only push people so far too.

The sucky thing is, really there are times during this stressful time that I could’ve gone in since Roger was home. I didn’t want to cause I’m not liking the place, I don’t want them to think they can use me, take advantage of me like they want. BUT I could’ve used that extra cash. If there was another decorator, I probably would’ve gone in to HELP out, not get bombarded with more work. Then, this I didn’t know, but we realized we needed some cash that we didn’t have, ASAP. I had to ask my mom if we could borrow it. We’d have it paid back real soon, maybe even in 2 weeks (so rain, go away). Luckily my mom had it. My parents are retired and my mom isn’t getting anything yet. It’s not like they have lumps of money laying around either. Then it just makes me think, oh I should’ve just worked more. Like being stuck between a rock and a hard place or whatever.