I feel like I just had a post talking about what a crazy week it had been.. but I feel like the whole month of August was completely CRAZY (and even that might be an understatement)!
We started apartment hunting because we had 7 bats in the span of 3 weeks. Got a few of them out by myself (boys are such weenies), called Animal Control for a couple, and Bubba helped me catch a few (then we had to get a booster for his rabies vaccination). We were pretty upset when our landlord said he wasn't going to do more than buy a can of caulk and fill some gaps, and since we hadn't re-signed our lease, we started to look. I don't care for the place we live... I guess it's a roof over our head, but I feel like for $600 a month, we can get a lot nicer and bigger place. However, it's extremely hard to find apartments that allow pets! I love my kitties, but they're making this search hard!
Then, at the beginning of the month, we found out that the Child Care Center I was working in would be closing. The building we were in had major damage that would cost too much money for the Parish to repair, so they, along with the Catholic School system in La Crosse and the diocese simply decided to discontinue the Early Childhood portion of their school system. I felt awful for my families.. there are very few centers in La Crosse that take infants... let alone children under 2. I wasn't worried about finding a job myself, I just wanted to make sure that my families were taken care of.
On that note, I have been looking for jobs like crazy. Thankfully, I had an amazing boss who gave wonderful recommendations, so I was a shoe-in for any job I applied to. I interviewed and accepted a position, but then an even better position came up at Gundersen Lutheran hosptial's childcare center. I was so excited because so many of my kids were going there (I'll be a toddler teacher, so I'll have some of the kids that I had as infants!) so I'll be able to see a lot of "my" families! It was hard to call the other job and tell them that I was accepting another position, but they were very understanding. I'll be starting next Friday, so it's going to be nice to have a few days off to go home and be with my family and my mom who is still recovering from the surgery she had a few weeks ago.
Oh, and to make things even more interesting, my car is breaking on me! I had to replace my front struts and shocks... so that was about $700. Thank goodness I won't be getting paid monthly at my new job!
Wow, what a novel. Anyone who reads all of this gets a cookie... haha.
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