everybody's working for the weekend....

so i date myself...LOL!  here's to Friday!  yeah!!!  work has been nutso crazy this week...insanity. 

so today I find myself thinking about the cute kids.  do you have one?  i always thought i did, but mine are getting older now.  heck, my 11 year old is 5'7"+!  definitely no longer cute...it's an adult size!  so i find myself thinking about cute.  when does "cute" end?  at what age?  if you are tiny, can you be cute longer? 

hmmmmm...............................................

just another manic monday....

so the weekend was good.  relaxing.  didn't do much.  stayed in bed late saturday, or was that sunday?  i don't remember!  lol!  so today is monday.  work is good...very very busy.  i don't have much planned this week.  thinking about vacation.  are we going to take one this year, etc.  trying to plan it.  we've never taken a vacation as a family in our 18 years of marriage.  so maybe this year?  :)

TGIF!

I don't know about you, but I'm soooooooooo glad it's Friday!  What a week!  I cannot wait to sleep in tomorrow.  I have to work some, but I fully intend to stay in a bed...as long as possible!  The house will clean itself, right?  ;)

racism....the ugly side

Yesterday i was confronted with a bout of racism regarding an issue with someone in my family.  Yes, shocking.  Seriously, it shocked me.  Apparently she was on a bus in Chicago, there were no seats available and she was told to hold her four week old daughter, rather than leaving her in the carseat/stroller setup.  I guess it was blocking the aisle?  In any event, there was an elderly woman nearby with her cart with wheels - but she wasn't asked to close the cart.  When my family member announced this on Facebook she was met with sneers of, "that black bus driver", etc.  WOW...I was shocked.  Yes, it was strange and rather backward that the elderly woman was not asked to close her cart.  That my family member was asked to hold her infant daughter in her arms (which is clearly not safe).  But the backlash was amazing.  Over 30 comments on Facebook to her issue.  I guess I knew racism still existed, of course I did...but to that extent?  :(

and away we go!

So...first things first...an introduction!  I'm Noël, wife, mommy, customer service representative, person!  :)  I'm in my mid-40s, I live in Central Virginia and I work 40+ hours at week outside the home.  I am married and have 4 kids. 

I recently started a new job and my hours are weird.  Not awful, just weird.  9:30am to 6:30pm.  I don't love this, but I love having a job!  Took me 9 months to find this one!  WHEW...  But i'm loving it so far!  (In fact I'm on my lunch break right now...LOL!) 

I'm working hard on finding balance between an employer that wants OT every week and kids and life and me.  Hard to even type all of that! 

Anyway, first posts are always the hardest.  So let's call this one DONE!