it's been a few weeks since my last post and that is mainly because there has been a bunch of stuff yet nothing going on at the same time. With the Christmas approaching I feel terrible saying I am not really in the Christmas spirit... usually I get all giddy and excited but it hasn't hit me yet. WEIRD! Hopefully I can get into it with the wrapping of presents and my crazy family in town next weekend.
Unfortunatly I was part of the 570 California people that Washington Mutual/JP Morgan Chase laid off on the 1st. Yep, my second layoff this year! SUCKS but at least it's a working layoff so we technically have jobs until January 29. Helps with the holidays a bit but does add some stress of finding a new job along with several thousand other people! It never fails when I find something stuff like this happens!
I have found a new love in life, I really am enjoying my charity work. Now I am not wealthy so I can't be a great philanthropist but I can donate my time. Right now my garage looks like a warehouse with the amount of stuff Ihave. Kids clothes, adults clothes, toys... Christmas gifts. It's crazy and wonderful. Maybe someday we will win the lottery and I can quit my job and just volunteer and sit on boards and enjoy that aspect of life BUT until then I will settle for my few hours a week. I did take on a new responsibility, I am the Orange County Director of the Queen for a Day program. This program goes into pediatric cancer wards in hospitals and have a dress up day with the kids. Beauty Queens come in and crown the girls and fireman/heroes come in and dress up the boys. It's a fun day for the kids to be kids and not be sick. I am looking forward to the new year and getting this program off of the ground. I am also collecting items for my Personal Place Project, giving pillowcases with items in them to kids entering domestic violence shelters. Something that is all theirs and allows them to keep something safe and comforting with them. YEP.. I am WAY too busy. I am also going to speaking to a group of pregnant homeless women about the positives of adoption. That should also be a lot of fun.
Life gets so complicated yet is amazing at the same time. There are days that I feel like the biggest failure and others that I am on top of the world. Sure, I have an amazing husband and daughter (that informed daddy that he was 'in her heart' last night while he was at work), a nice apartment in a great area... I have a job (ok, so this is only applicable for another 50 days but whatever) and a great extended family... but sometimes I feel like i don't deserve it all, like that shoe is going to drop and everything will come crumbling down. AHHH. I hate PMS!
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"There are days that I feel like the biggest failure and others that I am on top of the world."
Girl! You took the words right out of my mouth... I think a lot of us feel this way.
You are doing amazing things with all of your charity work... it must come back to you tenfold to give so much of yourself.... tiring yes... but oh so rewarding I would imagine. You're teaching Krystina such wonderful lessons in the process too just by your example.
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