So things have been pretty crazy here lately....not always in a bad way...just busy.

I went back to work after a 5 month leave of absence due to medical reasons...I started the beginning of this month...March 1st to be exact.  So I have officially put in 2 full weeks back to work...they changed a lot while I was gone...still trying to adjust to some things....not to mention when I got back, like my first full day there with my superviser I had to deal with a lot of "shit" that had gone down before I went off on medical leave...which I did not like...but it was dealt with and now it is just over with and I am moving on and not dwelling on the hell that place can sometimes seem like.  I'm trying to learn how to balance school, work, and family...all full time actions in my life...

Since I have been back to work I do not really get to spend a lot of time with my family (and with some members of my family I think they may still feel that is too much time in their world...) I miss my babies...Rera and Josh...I do not get to spend time with them after school like I use to...I do not get to help with their homework or anything...I am here to help get them ready for school in the morning, and to sit with them for the 20-30 minutes it takes putting them to bed and watching them fall asleep...they are so precious, and I miss them soooooo much when I am at work. Then with school...I have had 2 online courses and one campus class...it has been killing me trying to keep up with the school work for all my courses and work 8 hours and spend the little time at home trying to help Carol so that it doesn't all fall on her...though a lot of it still does fall on her...I wish I could help more than I do...sometimes it seems like my help isn't really help at all...though she says otherwise...I love my baby girl dearly...she is so precious to me. On top of those 3 classes I have another class that is starting tomorrow...it is a late starter class and only lasts 3 months instead of 4...but I thought I was having trouble keeping up with 3 classes worth of work and my professional life and my family life...add another class to it...YIKEEEESSSS....

Anyway...On Sundays we play D-N-D...Mike (sweet guy that has been friends with Carol's older two girls for a long time) comes over (he is also a coworker, he works in the gaurd shak at my company), and Jim and Lynn stay home, and Carol, Mark, and Me all sit down and for a couple of hours we play the table top game and just enjoy time together with family and friends...James takes the two little ones and they play their version of D-N-D which is really nothing more than a cartoon of their choice played out in real life in James room...they act out the different characters like pokemon, or princess peach, and stuff like that...they have fun with it...So Sunday for the last half a year or so has been like family night around here...

Today has been kinda tense...actually the last couple a weeks has been...so I am looking forward to all of us just sitting up here together as family and friends and B.S.ing our way through a couple of hours having fun and not stressing on anything...So let me get to that and you get back to whatever you feel you need to be doing  and we shall meet up again the next time I am needing the space to ramble on....

~Mel~