Aug 25, 2006

So here's the deal with Jeremy's job. He had gotten the first offer on Tuesday from a company he would actually want to work at. The job was good, the pay was good, and the benefits were really good. The last four days, he's been waiting for an offer from another company that he was not as excited about working at. The only reason he would take that job was if the pay was obscenely good and all his friends took the job, too. Now this second company has always been a bit sketchy. Jeremy interviewed with them right after the layoffs and they have been dorking around for the last 6 weeks. Strike one. Strike two - they have difficulty understanding time zones. The company is based out of CA and the first set of interviews were scheduled at the wrong time because they thought Colorado was in central time. And then Wednesday night, they called at 10:30pm to tell Jeremy that they almost had the offer ready. When they called, they thought it was only 8:30 (?). And strike three was really the last straw. Today Jeremy got offer. The pay was a bit higher than company one and the benefits were worse. But the kicker? All six people on his team had to accept the offer, or no one got a job. Is that even legal? Jeremy hated to be the one to decline, but he talked it over with the two people on his team that are his friends and they agreed he had to take the job that was better for him. So long story short, Jeremy accepted the offer at company one and will start working sometime in the next 3 to 11 days. Yay!

Now we can buy Jeremy's new computer and we don't have to get divorced. Double yay!

7:05 Drop off. Ariel was asleep in her carseat.

7:10 Or was she? Ariel woke up and joined us at the table for waffles. I didn't feed her any cereal because I still think she's constipated. I did start her on a bottle that she took a few swigs from.

8:15 After finishing her bottle, went down for a nap for real.

8:30 I loaded the boys up in the double stroller (Jeremy stayed with Ariel) and we walked to the post office. I was able to mail one eBay item, the other two people (including my $66 diaper nut) haven't paid me yet. Stupid cheap eBay.

9:00 Get to Post Office. Nothing exciting happened there.

9:30 Get home. Ariel was still sleeping and Jeremy was willing to stay with her, so we got in the car and headed to Alex's preschool for Meet & Greet day.

9:50 Quick trip to the credit union so I could deposit my two checks from my paying photography customers (and Becky). Yay!

10:00 Alex's preschool. We checked out his room and his teachers. I'm really happy that Adam's baby preschool teacher from last year will be teaching Alex's class, she's a lot of fun. Apparently there are a lot of high energy boys in Alex's class. He's either going to be playing kitty house with Zoe and Anna or he's going to turn into a higher-energy boy (oy-vey).

10:40 Left for home.

11:00 Home. Jeremy's update - Ariel woke up at 10:15 soaking wet from head to toe. He washed her off and dressed her in her dry outfit (Mom, you MUST renturn those size 2 diapers, they barely fit around her legs and I'm having leaking problems that can't possibly be all my fault). They hung out for a bit, then Jeremy gave her half a bottle and some cheerios.

Some pictures so I could try out my new plexiglass. You can't see the glass, but you can see Ariel can't bunch up the fabric:





11:30 Ariel had lunch, bananas and oranges and finished her bottle.

12:15 Jeremy left on an exciting adventure to meet with our finacial advisor.

12:30 Exciting outing to Wild Oats. I had to buy some yeast so Alex and I could make challah. I also bought some fresh salmon for dinner tonight. We'll see if Alex eats any, last time he said he didn't want to eat anything that was swimming in the ocean. I guess that's what a semi-vegetarian ends up with for kids.

Both kids pushed around the kid carts and I had to keep putting back all the random stuff Adam was pulling off the shelves (like cheesy-poofs and canned fruit cocktail). Ariel was in the bjorn and eventually fell asleep, probably to escape all the yelling I was doing to herd my kids.

1:15 Home - Ariel stayed asleep in the carseat and into the house. I got Adam down for a nap.

2:00 Started making challah with Alex. We used the bread maker for the mixing and rising. Alex poured in all the ingredients (you can also see his super short haircut. I was holding I-don't-want-my-haircut Adam and couldn't see what was going on with Alex):



2:15 Right as the mixing was done, Ariel woke up. She had a bottle.

3:15 Alex and I got the dough out of the machine and braided our challah. Then it had to rise AGAIN in the oven. I can see that I need to make a bigger batch so we only have to do this once a month. I didn't realize quite how labor intensive it was. And of course as we were finishing this step, Adam woke up in his grumpy way.

3:30 Jeremy got home, and took Ariel off my hands to I could hold Adam.

3:50 Finally baked the challah.

4:00 Pick up.