How things're goin'

I've missed Paige and Sylvie since they left, but I did as Paige suggested and visited meetup.com. There I found a couple of mom groups and have made it to one meeting so far, a walk around one of the malls in the area (as the weather was rainy and chilly). I was the only other person to show up besides the group organizer, it was nice getting to know her though and her two little boys who are 2 and 4 and just adored Jack.

I'm planning to go to a couple more meets this week, I"ll let you know how those go.


The night before last I remember having only one dream. Travis, Jack and I had just returned home from being out somewhere and Tubby came out to greet us from Jacks room. At first there was nothing surprising about this, tubby used to come to the door all the time to greet us when we'd get home.

Then I remembered Tubby was no longer with us, and I turned and asked Travis if he was seeing what I was seeing. He looked down and didn't say anything then said "I hope you are seeing what I'm seeing," and we were both so happy to see him and that he looked to be feeling much better. His fur was all clean and shiny and he looked like his old tub-a-lub self.
We called the vets office and asked how this could happen and they said that someone had picked Tubby to pay to get treated for his illness and Tubby had been dropped off home when he had recovered.

It was a happy dream.

I had written a nice long new story of Mr Tubbyloves grand adventures and saved it as a draft till I could get back to it. Something happened though and it's been deleted.....It talked about Mr Tubbylove's Great Seattle Adventure. His last and final. For those of you who don't know, Travis and I had to put our dear Tubby down, he was apparently suffering from Fatty Liver Disease. So while in my dream I was overjoyed and happy I woke up feeling pretty sad.

I didn't remember it right away, but had that sad feeling all day and couldn't put my finger on why I felt that way. Then just as I was getting ready for bed I remembered. I told Travis about the dream and we both got a little teary, me more than him of course but you know me....

Anyway that's how things have been, Travis and I are both very relieved that Travis got a new better paying job pretty much right away and we credit the find to our brother Theron. We owe him a steak dinner, hopefully one day we can return the favor!!!
Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure Jacks lower center teeth are coming it. He's young I know it but it does happen....Also he's had a growth sput length wise! He was one the first button on the excersaucer for along time and just the day before yesterday I had to boost him up to the middle level!! He's going to be taller then his mama, this boy!!!

But that's not saying much ;)

Paige and Sylvies' visit!

What wonderful people I have in my life that try to surprise me with visits during my birthday!! Paige and Sylvie flew all the way from Boston, nonstop, to surprise me for my birthday. Though I had been let in on that secret by someone, I had had a feeling I'd be seeing them soon anyway.
Also I didn't know when they'd be coming, so the house was a mess when they got here.

I'm so glad they came, the only thing that would have made it even better is if Theron had come as well. It was nice, we sent up a couple of webcam chats and it was like Theron was here, like old times. Laughing and joking around.....Paige and Theron were our closest friends when we all lived in Savannah, we used to play games and watch movies and stuff together often. Travis and I have missed them ever since they moved to Boston. What's worse is that they went and had only the most adorable daughter ever, and we only get to see her on these occasions.

I'm having a hard time putting into words the way I feel.

It was so nice having them here to visit it made me want them to move out here even more, I could just see going over to their place and hanging out letting the kids play together...I can see going shopping with Paige at the mall and doing arts and crafts stuff together.

*sigh*

I'm really very sad now that they've gone home. I know Paige and Sylvie will be glad to get back to Theron and Theron will be glad to have them home, and that makes me happy. But I'm going to be a wee bit selfish and wish they were all here.

I guess I just need to start meeting other people here. No one can take their place though, they'll always be the people we want to hang out with the most!! I didn't write this post to make them feel pressured to move out here, in fact I'm going to be laying off in a big way about that now, and hope Theron gets that job he's interviewing for on Friday.

I just want you all to know how truly lucky I feel that I have such people in my life that affect me the way you all do. I didn't cry when Paige and Sylvie got here (Travis had a really excellent cover story for not coming home till after 10) but I'm crying now and have been since you left, and will probably cry in snatches over the next few days.

Funny how family becomes the best friends you'll ever have.

Thank you guys for being so wonderful!!!

Ok now I'm getting shmaltzy so I'll leave it
Hey Jessica, when does the school year end for you? You're moving out here right after right???

Happy Birthday to me.

Oh well the day started off nicely! I took travis to work and Paige and I had planned on going to the mall and her buying my birthday present. I got home and paige had made coffee and we started watching Moonstruck while Sylvie took her mid morning/afternoon nap. We got a phone call and it was Travis telling me the company he worked for is no longer.....As in he is no longer employed.

I'm waiting for the punch line of the joke, but it never comes. Travis asked me to come get him in about an hour as he needs to back up some stuff on his computer at work. OK I'll be there in an hour.

So now I seriously think my birthday is cursed!! I'm thinking of never again acknowledging my birthday ever again!! Bad things happen on my birthday, course there was a lull in between this bad thing and the last bad thing......Course the last bad thing was a really bad thing.....

Anywhoo, while we were shocked at this sudden loss of a job we both feel that this is just leading to an even better job with better pay and better benefits. So we aren't too worried, honestly I did freak out a bit but only on the inside. I figure we wouldn't have been moved here for no reason, we are here for a reason.

But why do these things have to happen on my birthday?
To illustrate how wonderful my husband is to me, his explanation:

Bad things happen on your birthday because when you were born it was the best day ever, it was the most wonderful thing to happen, so to bring balance back to the universe a few bad things have to happen.

OMG! How wonderful and sweet is my Travis!!!

It's been a couple days since I wrote the last, Theron one of our most excellent brothers in law found a job posting on a website called Craigslist and sent the link to Travis.

Travis e3mailed them and they called back the following morning....Travis has an interview tomorrow at 3. Fingers crossed he gets it!!!!

Hubby's jumped on the blogwagon!!

Hey guys!! You'll never guess what's happened, the man who said he'd never use a cell phone, the man who said he didn't need a blog....Has got himself a blog!

That's right folks Travis has started his own blog!! Wonder of wonders miracle of miracles...well maybe that's going a little far. But here it is for everyone to see:

http://theseattlebugblog.blogspot.com/

G'Day Mate

It's strange but it really struck me when Travis told me Steve Irwin better known as "The Crocodile Hunter" had died. I didn't believe it at first, but there was no real reason not too. I never met him nor had any desire to, but I feel like I've lost a friend with his death.

My thoughts are with his wifeTerry, daughter Bindi, and son Bob. May the memory and warmth of his smile warm you through this cold time.

Jacks first ever really real laugh!!!

Ok this was so totally awesome!!! Today is the first day of the long weekend of labor day, Travis was on the computer working on a Woot.com contest and Jack and I were sitting on the couch watching Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Travis decided to take a break, and as I'd seen the movie and read the book about a million times I sat Jack on the edge of the futon and was showing him the little dog on his excersaucer. It's a little clown dog on a squiggly wire that you can bend back and then let go and it springs back. It's hard to explain but you kind of get the picture......

So Travis sat down next to the excersaucer on the floor and pulled the dog back and let it go and made a "sproing yoing yoing" noise and Jack laughed!!! A really real laugh! Not just the little squeak of a laugh he was doing before (which was and still is very cute), but a real little giggle that lasted 5-10 seconds over a couple minutes every time Travis pulled and let go of the dog and made the noise....

It was totally awesome and it is now our mission to make him laugh like that every day!!! We are going to try to catch him laughing on our super awesome digi camera that allows us to make mini movies.....It's out of batteries right now. Travis also wanted me to mention we have styled Jacks hair in a Mohawk today and it looks super cute!!! We'll get a picture of that too!!!

And don't you know every time he laughed it made us laugh, course this isn't major news but it made me cry....I cry at everything, silly me......What a beautiful noise, I hope we hear it often!!