yet again... another year is almost over and thank goodness!!! this has been one of the most craptastic years thus far. or at least the last 3-4 months of it were. it all started with ainsley's pageants. she was always the youngest in her division, there were so few in her group that when she did place it was always last place. three different pageants, all the same results, 2nd runner up. i say that's what started our streak of bad luck. after the pageant fiasco then came matt's job. on oct 9th he was wrongfully terminated with no warning, no apologies, no sympathy. that was an extremely rough day. within an hour of each other we both were delivered 'hard to swallow' news. from there everything was just a downward spiral of one bad thing after another. he was denied unemployment, we had DSS called on me because branson got a black eye as a result of a tossed toy in his room, my own MIL was threatening me with calling DSS on me after i was informed that a nurse broke HIPPA and was telling ainsley's private medical information. yet thankfully this all turned out to be a lie and yet still my MIL tried to run her mouth. we went back and forth with her for i don't know how long. thank goodness she's gone now!!! we were finally approved for medicaid and food stamps. something i never in my life thought we would ever have to use! ainsley gained so much weight in a matter of a few months. started scooting, sitting, eating like a big girl by herself, riding in a big girl carseat, holding her bottle and is now working on pulling up. branson turned 6, jaxon is now potty trained and matt starts a new part time job wed at food lion not to mention got a second call back from family dollar for a management position. the food lion job seems very promising in they said he wouldn't be in part time long and they had big plans for him but just couldn't tell him what yet. so we'll see. my parents are officially divorced and i rarely speak to or even see any of them anymore. they only cause trouble & drama. i had my 10 year high school reunion in october. ainsley's first Christmas is around the corner and my babies are going to have a great Christmas! so i hope the last month of this year will end on a good note. 2013 will be bringing some surprises, haha that's an understatement!! but i just hope it's better than 2012 has been.
i wrote this post 2 years ago and kept adding to it or seeing if i actually followed through with my new year goals. 2012 goals some i did, some i didn't. i managed to gain some really great, amazing, TRUE friends this year that are better to me than my own family. here's the goals i made last year
..so now with all of that being said i'd like to add a few new ones...
(2011 wrote for 2012)
next year we will have 3 kids, boy i never saw that one coming when i wrote this blog last year. but i'm excited. i also never imagined my aunt nanny wouldn't be here either to share it with us :'( hopefully the new year will also bring new job opportunities for matt. we've both had it with his job! i just wished we could move to tn and several things would be solved but that requires attempting to sell the house again and he just doesn't want to go through that right now :(
-- haha yeah the new year definitely brought new ops with his job, he no longer had it!!
--- all of my cleaners will now be homemade! no more store bought cleaners, washing detergents, etc. i'm truly excited to try this!! they'll be safer, less chemicals, natural and less $$
-- this lasted for quiet a while. i made my own detergent for the longest time and really enjoyed it but with 3 kids it just became too much bc i was always washing and running out.
--- i'm going to try couponing. i'm going to really do some research and see if i can accomplish it. with 3 kids we just might need it! i just hope matt knows he gets to stay at home with the other 2 kids while i go if he really wants me to do it correctly ;)
-- yep never happened!
--- breastfeeding... i will 100% give it a real, full, hard out try!!! i wasn't able to with branson, barely was with jaxon so this time i should be set and ready considering all of my diet changes i made prior to becoming pregnant. plus i'm going to be a selfish prude and not allow anyone to be able to keep her bc i'm breastfeeding. i REFUSE to listen to the fighting over keeping her. that drives me insane!!! nothing worse than just having a baby and people already start asking when they can keep them. WTH idiots?! and well they sorta can't if i'm breastfeeding. so HA! oh yeah, not to mention the amount of benefits to both of us.
--i gave breastfeeding my absolute best effort ever!! we went for 3.5 months but her reflux was just so bad we needed another alternative for her. and i did manage to refuse anyone to keep her for the longest time and the first person to keep her wasn't even family hahaha. she was someone i trusted MORE than my own family!!! (thank you again for that btw!) but my mom has kept her once and matt's mom kept her twice, both of which we're 100% against my will!!! but the good news, she won't be keeping her anymore, ever again, much less seeing her again haha.
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