12.02.2007 at 8:33 pm
decorated and redecorated
we decorated, and re-decorated the mantle and hearth in the den this weekend....
here's the before:
and the after:
and janie got to decorate her own little christmas tree:
yeah, notice that her tree is right beside a dresser drawer full of clothes, but not in a dresser. janie's tree is in the living room that also houses all of her toys, but no real furniture. the rest of that dresser is in the garage.
but we are making progress....
chris starts working tomorrow in mississippi. he got a call from a friend today and they asked how he was doing. through the conversation, he let them know he had been laid off, but he had been able to get lots done in the house.
and as soon as they heard that he was laid off, they offered him a job in pascagoula. he'll be working straight though the 19th of december, and after that, who knows.
since he is starting tomorrow, he doesn't have time to take his travel trailer down there and set it up in a lot. so, he will be driving back and forth every day.
that's over 100 miles one way.
i don't know how he's going to do it.
drive over an hour and a half to work one way, work ten hours, then drive another hour and a half home.
i just don't know....
he was worried that i was upset with him for going back to work.... how can i be upset him for going back to work? his job is the reason that we are able to have this house..... he has worked so hard for me to have what i want.... and for janie to have so much.....
how could i ever be upset with him for that?
this past tuesday was the day that he got laid off from the last construction job he had. and i had planned on buying janie a vtech v.smile gaming console for Christmas. when he called to tell me that he had gotten laid off, i decided that maybe she didn't have to have it for Christmas.... i could push it off for a while. i mean, fifty bucks is fifty bucks.... and it wasn't like she wasn't going to get 20 other toys, right?
i told him tonight, while we were sitting outside on the deck, enjoying the unusually comfortable december weather, that i had not purchased the game for janie...
"well, i guess you can now," he said with a smile.
"yeah. especially since jami has already bought her two games to go with it," i laughed.
things will be fine. we are both going to have to change our lives around a bit. he won't be able to do as much around the house, because he will be spending so much time on the road, and i am going to have to pick up the slack. my biggest fear (besides all those really scary fears that all wives have about something happening to their husbands... but we won't talk about that.....) is that i won't do the laundry for a couple of days and he will run out of pants to wear to work...
*L*
yeah. i know.
pitiful, huh?
we will be fine. this isn't the end of the world. this is our lives. this is how our lives will probably be forever. we just got a reprieve there for a little while when he was able to work so close to home.
the problem is....
we both got so use to it. it might be a challenge when he really does have to go away to work for an extended period of time.
that's when i'll post an entry full of typos and psychoticness because i am typing through a stream of tears.
yeah.
xoxo
tell me i'm beautiful...
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