Sunday, October 26, 2008

I'm Scared

Paul will not have a job in 6 months - they are off shoring his job to India. He is training his replacements now. They want the training to be done by Jan 1 but are saying Paul still have 5-6 months left where he is now. Sooo Paul is looking for a job. This is the first time in his professional career that's he's HAD to look for a job. He doesn't even have a resume! Well he does now, he wrote it this weekend, but before Saturday he didn't.

We are most likely going to have to leave MI, which in turn means we will lose the house. We'll have to walk away... This is killing me. I love this house and so does Paul. We finally have a place of our own and have put so much money and time into getting it the way we want and we're most likely going to have to just walk away from it.
So as I said, Paul wrote a resume this weekend and is going to start sending it out. I've found 3 places for him to send it to so far. We're looking into Charleston, South Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina; Cambrige, MA; Bentonville, AR; etc. Guess which one my mom is voting for?! LOL Of course Bentonville would be Wal-Mart. The only thing with Bentonville is we KNOW he would have to take a 20K paycut but we also know the cost of living is a lot lower there.... It's still scary to think of making 20k less we are used to. Bentonville will be our last resort.
I'm so jealous of Cooper. He has know clue any of this is going on. He gets to live his life, be a baby and has everything he needs and wants with no worries. Awww, to be a kid. I spent so much time trying to grow up to only want to be a kid again!! The irony LOL
Best case - we can stay here, Paul makes the same amount of $$ and we keep the house. (this will NEVER in a million years happen)
So realistically -
Best case - we have to move outta state, Paul makes the same amount and we sell/rent the house
Worts case - we have to move outta state, don't make as much and lose the house
Yea, our choices aren't looking so good. Oh joy... can't wait.

I was tucking Paul into bed just now and he looks at me and says "I hope I can always provide for you and Coop." and started crying.

sobbing

I was proud of myself for not crying with him and just comforting him but damn that was hard. I don't know how to help him. He's having such a hard time with the work situation. This is the first time in 25 years that he's had to look for a job. He doesn't even have a resume! He's so afraid that Coop and I won't have everything we need. He's worried about not finding a job with equal pay to what he is making now. If he doesn't make what he's making now then we WILL lose the house and that scares and upsets him. If we have to move out of state for work then we'll most likely lose the house - there's no way we can sell our house for what we owe - our only hope of keeping the house would be a renter but the rent would be so high I doubt that would happen. He's also worried about the moving costs if we do have to move.

I said everything I could think of to reassure him that we're just fine and we always will be. I told him that we'll always have everything we need as long as we have him. I told him that I was frustrated because I didn't know how to help him and he started crying again and told me that I was helping him so much just by being here. crying love

I love this man so much and I hate seeing him hurt like this. I don't know that I've ever seen him like this. Sure, I've seen him cry, but nothing that compares to what happened 20 minutes ago. He is such a wonderful husband, father, man. I just wish there was something I could do to take the pain away. crying crying

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Coop's Blog

See here for Cooper updates... and lots of pictures!

http://raisingbabygreen.blogspot.com/

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Eclipse

I'm 100 pages into this book and so far I'm a little frustrated.

I hate how Charlie is pushing Bella towards Jacob. If she doesn't want to see him then she doesn't want to see him! It's as easy as that. Why doesn't Charlie just leave her alone.

So now I'm at the point where Bella is with Jacob. Edward went to hunt so she went to see Jacob. I hate that she's sneaking around to see him. I feel like she needs to make a decision, Jacob or Edward... She can't have both. I mean they are mortal (or is it immortal hehe) enemies. She can't have both!

But I can see that this book is going to be a tug of war. Bella is going to bounce back and forth between Jacob and Edward throughout the book.

That's brings me to another thing!

Edward doesn't bash Jacob. He doesn't call him names, doesn't make fun of him, doesn't put him down.... Jacob is ALWAYS calling Edward names and talking trash about him and his family. Which is my mind means that Jacob is essentially putting Bella's family down.

Bella is so dead set to become a member of their family, how can she stand to be around someone who is always putting them down!?!?

These books are driving me nuts!!!

Twilight and New Moon

I have read both of these books. Here is my review (Spoilers alert)

I absolutely love Twilight. I read this book in 48 hours, all 450 pages! I loved every part of this book.

I was extremely disappointed in New Moon. I felt cheated throughout the whole book. After Edward left - 50 pages into the book btw - I actually walked away from the book for a day. I'm still pissed that Edward was gone for 450 pages. I loved when he came back and they were in Volterra. I was completely thrilled when the Volturi told him that Bella had to become a vampire. I must say though, I'm still pissed about this book....

Friday, October 10, 2008

Knitting

Today I learn to knit!!! WOO HOO!!! I am super excited about this. My first project is a scarf and I can't wait to get started.

Coop and I are walking to Ms. Lynn's at 10 and Grandma Alice is going to meet us there. Grandma Alice is going to teach me to knit while Ms. Lynn plays with Coops, of course! lol

I also have a new blog, one just for Cooper. You can see it here -

http://raisingbabygreen.blogspot.com/

Enjoy and wish me luck with my new adventure!