I do apologize for the crickets over here.
Blogger switched up their page and I dont even know if I am posting this correctly?? (partially my reason for procrastination.)
Excuses aside- we have been so busy. I know I say that every time I have been in between posts. So this is my best attempt at a little synopsis tonight.
By the time I finish my shift on Saturday I will have worked 5 days this week at Kissui... which may not seem like a TON but if you consider the fact that I have had Kenley every day besides tomorrow then yes... yes it is.
Regardless of how little or how much I am there, I love that place so much. While we were home for three weeks they were super short on girls and I felt extremely guilty. If I didnt have a million things to do and take care of while I was there, I would have been on a flight home early. So since I missed out on all the action Im doing my best to make up for it since Ive been back. I dont know what I will do with myself after we move and I no longer have Kissui.
Actually,thats not entirely true... I do know what I will be doing with myself...
Our first week at home was dedicated to getting all of my ducks in a row at Sonoma State. It was stressful to say the least. I went to orientation as scheduled and left completely devastated. It was truly a sign of the times in the CSU system. There were no classes. The classes that were offered in the fall that I NEEDED to take each had 30 person wait lists. My options? Take one of them in summer school, costing me $1,300, missing Gavins graduation and being away from him all summer... along with being in the class all day every day for a month with the expectations of all the grandparents chipping in to watch Kenley. Sounds horrible right?... So I didnt do it. Instead I came home... and thought things over. I reminded myself just how badly I wanted this, how hard I worked to get to this point and the fact that I couldnt just give up now. I decided to sit down and shoot an email to the department chair who I had seen at orientation and clearly remembered me from the two classes I took with her before. I was able to quickly catch her up on my life when I saw her and where I had been (she "wondered what had happened to me" haha). She quickly repsonded to my email saying she would talk to some instructors for me and would at least get me into the class that SHE teaches and suggested that this would be a good semester for my internship. So worse case scenario she had gotten me into her class and I would do my internship.
Doing a couple classes at a time wasnt exactly what I had pictured though. I was ready to get all of my eight classes over with in two semesters and graduate a year from now. So this busy lady was at Sonoma State not one, not two, but three days in a row... bugging teachers and trying to squeeze my way into two more classes... and Im ecstatic to say that it worked. Persistence does pay off, people!
SO...I am taking Physiology of Exercise (scared for my life about this class)... Biomechanics (also worried about this) Individualized Assesment and Programing (the department chairs class) and my internship as the assistant strength and conditioning coach for the mens and womens golf team (SOOOO excited about this one!!!!) My coach, who just so happens to be one of my favorite people on the planet, was nice enough to let me in on this awesome opportunity. Thats 15 units of crazy busy... but I am beyond ready. Just missing a few ducks for that row I mentioned...
As we prepare for the big move, we are faced with a couple daunting realities. With me in school full time, Gavin working full time and all of Kenleys grandparents working full time it doesnt leave many options for her care during the day. I hate the very thought of being away from her so much to begin with, but trusting her in the care of someone else causes me concern to say the least. She is on two different wait lists for preschools but we havent been promised anything. Tuesdays and Thursdays I am in school from 8am to 8pm. I dont know how that will work... missing her dinner time? bath time? bed time? Especially after a whole day of being away from her to being with????? I know all of these things should and will fall into place but for now its looking slightly hectic.
Next on the list is finding a place for us to live. Both Gavins parents and mine have been nice enough to open their homes to us but we all know its best for our family of three to stay that way. We will definitely be taking them up on their offer until we can find something for ourselves and figure out a realistic budget. As of right now Gavin is looking at a UPS job in Napa until the Fish and Game academy starts in January and then who knows?? Petaluma is an ideal place right in the middle (plus I just so happen to love hippy little Petaluma.) We are going to need to get REAL creative. And by WE I mean ME since I will be the one in Northern California an entire month before Gavin. (Gavin walks the graduation stage June 16 but doesnt actually complete his degree until summer school ends on September 1st... I start school August 21st, you do the math.) We are giving up our place down here as of August 1st so we can get around paying an entire months rent/utilities and Gavin will be staying with teammates for the remaining month of summer school.
blah blah blah blah... this is all really boring but I think I might just be typing it out so I dont forget anything haha ;)
Anyway... our three weeks at home were so amazing that it took me an entire week to mentally adjust to reality down here. Pretty sure I mentally checked out of Riverside about three months ago.
We have a very busy month of June coming up as well and July will consist of Gavin and I just working like crazy and trying to save our every penny. Any tips on saving??? Im open to any and all suggestions.
Lastly let me just say how weird it is having Gavin done with baseball. He is really done and it is really... weird.
Im so proud of him. UC Riverside may not have ended up being the ideal place for him to play but he definitley made the most of it. To even make it to Division I baseball in college (especially in THIS league) is something that most kids in Little League just dream about. Very few understand the ligistics of college baseball and baseball beyond that is a whole other story... but what Gavin accomplished is amazing... and paid for his education! and to be a full-time student, graduate on time AND with good grades, work part time and be a father?!?....... no words.
There is FINALLY a light at the end of the tunnel.
And in three short weeks we will have a TWO year old. I cant believe it. Every day she still continues to amaze us with something new. It seems like her little vocabulary just develops over night. She is speaking in sentances, asks questions and knows her colors and abc's perfectly. She is working on her sharing and has been getting better about it the more time she has spent at Kissui with the other babies and at my friend Jills where she still goes on Thursdays to hang out with her two littles, Mae and Miles (below)
 |
| (Jill also sent me this hilarious/cute picture of Kenley) |
Like I said it will be a busy, but fun June... So Ill do my best to post even a LITTLE more than I have been.
On Friday I turn 24... yikes! Then Gavins whole fam will be here for his graduation... the following day we are having a birthday breakfast for Kenley (on fathers day) and then the week after that she will really be 2!!!
:::Did I mention that Uncle Mike will be staying with us for July??::::
Let the good times roll.
Love, Jess
