March has been a crazy month.
Just a breif overview of everything that's happened. Joel got a job. Hailey and Emi are now in kid care 3 days a week. We finally went hiking. I biked to work on a bicycle. I've had to learn how to ride the motorcycle. We planted our garden but now it's actually starting to grow! We had our first fire in backyard. I went to the Er for a potential appendicitis. Joel gets to wash his clothes at a laundromat.
Joel got a job. Even though he wants to be welding, I'm sure that he enjoys his job most days. He currently works for a construction company here in Vegas. No he's not doing construction, he's one of their diesel mecahnics. Think of it as Joel gets to fix big boy Tonka Trucks. he comes home exhausted and usually covered in black. I didn't want that in the house, so he gets to strip down outside on the back patio then head straight to the shower. Good thing we have a big backyard and no neighbors who can look over the fence.
This is one of the fun toys Joel has enjoy working on.
Hailey and Emi are now in kid care with two friends since both of us are working. I told Joel that he wasn't allowed to start looking for a job until I found kid car arrangements that I was comfortable with. The day care places here are expensive and they are a child mill. Luckily an on friend from high school doesn't live to far away, she has the same aged kids, and was crazy enough to say she'd watch them 2 of the 3 days a week. The other girl has kids the same age as well and offered to watch them the 3rd day that I work. Fortunately I only work 3 days a week. That being said, my base pay goes toward kid care. I think of it as each of us getting something. My dad gets a dental assistant. I get to get out of the house and associate with others and have social interaction and work. Those watching my kids get to have play mates for their kids as well as bring in a little much needed income. I pay a lot for my sanity. Luckily Joel makes a good decent wage that this works out.
We finally went hiking. Not Wymoing or Colorado mountains, but Red Rock in Las Vegas works. We purchased another kids carrier. It's not the fanciest and I wouldn't take it on super long hikes, but it works for now. Emi enjoyed it for a while but then got tired and cranky. I don't know how kids sleep the way they do and in the positions that they do.
We wore her out pretty good. No nap and only a few minutes in the carrier before we woke her up to look at the big pack of male bighorn sheep.
I biked to work but then Joel got a job so dropping kids off killed my morning commute time. I was super excited for this. We got our bikes tuned, I purchased a bike rack and pannier set. I could bike to work in 25 minutes. It was a good work out, but I've only done it once. :/
I've had to learn how to ride the motorcycle since we swap who gets to drive the blazer aka pick up the kids, who needs the car seat. This has been scary for me. The first day Joel was teaching me I was trying to get the clutch and gas figured out. I almost ran into a rock and a mail box. It was a big mail box, so it would have hurt! But I didn't crash. Joel will drop off the bike on Monday and Tuesdays after he gets off from work then he goes and picks up the girls in the blazer.
We planted our garden but now it's actually starting to grow!
We had our first fire in backyard. Hailey liked it but said, "hot!"
We were going to do a double/triple date with friends going ice skating but life got crazy as it usually does, so Joel and I ended up being the only ones. We saved the ice skating for another time and went ring shopping instead. I've never liked many of the rings I've looked at, but a client suggested designing my own. Oh wow, that's a whole different world! I've never really been excited about rings... till now.
We learned after washing Joel's clothes once in our own washer that he gets to wash his work clothes at a laundromat. I feel sorry for anyone who uses the machine after him if he forgets to wipe out the black ring of diesel and oil.
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