Gingerbread House

Since the fire and the loss of my daycare, I’ve looked long and hard at what I want to do to make a living. I think I’ve decided that I don’t want the pressures of being in daycare any more, or being self employed. I’d like to work and then walk out the door and put it behind me. I want to know how much is coming in and not worry about parents ditching me without notice and leaving me without the ability to pay my bills.

I’ve been looking at how much technology has changed since I was in accounting and a network administrator. I see a lot that is familiar, and I’m a quick learner, so I think I’ll be o.k. I don’t know much about the big switch to digital. And I saw a term the other day, KVM, that I’m clueless about. But as far as software, it looks like its just newer, updated versions of all the programs I used to use, which should be no problem.

Now I just have to get up my courage to take the leap. Not easy after working from my home for ten years.

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I’m back, hopefully permanently this time. The floods were more devastating than you could ever imagine. So many without homes, including my mother. God spared me and the kids this time from that sort of loss. It’s a bittersweet thing, though, since so many in my neighborhood have nothing. I only live a block from my mom.

On my mind today, aside from hopefully moving forward with my life with out any more tragedies, is thanking those who’ve helped all of us in our little town, and especially the people who have helped my brother and I with our mom’s mess. I’m thinking of giving them a little token of our appreciation. I’d like to make little personalized gifts for them to show them how much it means to us. I just with I could thank each of the hundreds of volunteers, red cross and salvation army, who brought us water and hot meals each day as we were cleaning out homes, pulling up carpet, tossing furniture, in an effort to dry things as quickly as possible so we could save as much of all the structures as possible.

I guess the thank you’s we said along the way will have to be enough. I personally plan to pay it forward if I can when someone else is in need.

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Not glamorous, but it’s what I’m doing right now. I want to make up a bunch of those bic pens covered in microbeads and fastened on by double sided tape, but I’m having a hard time finding a good, reasonable source for the beads. I want to put them in my craft booths this fall as a low priced item to draw in the younger crowd so maybe their parents will spend a little time looking. I also find the more low priced items I have, the more lookers I get no matter what age group.

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Er…….tax rebate, I mean? I haven’t replaced our t.v. yet with a good, usable one. I’m thinking of getting one of those superthin ones with the lcd mount kits, if I can afford it. If not, then I’ll just get the best I can. Of course I could do the responsible, grown-up thing and pay bills with it. But I never claimed to be responsible or grown up, now did I?

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I’ve posted so much about the fire, I thought I’d show you my favorite part of our new place.

Isn’t it wonderful! We love to use it. Little Man wants roasting sticks to roast marshmallows. I’m not sure we should be roasting anything in a gas fireplace, let alone marshmallows.

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