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Good Morning MMC!!!! It's going to be a warm dreary day today in Central Indy. We are getting a little bit of rain right now but it looks like it will move out before long. My goal for today is to get the outside decorations down. There is still a little bit of snow on the ground but it shouldn't be to bad to work in. I hope everyone is having a GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I will try to get one on here.


I love her name!! She sounds so sweet. Can you please post a picture of her? xo



Thank you, CM3!! This will be my first place where I can actually put a tree in front of a window =) xo



How exciting!! Good for you :dance: Congratulations, Seawaters!!!!



Get some rest, my friend. And take good care of yourself!!
 
You are so thoughtful to put your family first. And you are lucky to have a wife to help in that decision and to support you in that. Soon you will feel a lot better about it, especially when one of the kids hits a homerun or wins the Pinewood Derby and you are right there!


I know I made the right decision, but I am a little sad about it. I hate my job right now, and I would be free of that. I turned down all that money, where we could have financial freedom for the first time ever. We live paycheck to paycheck right now, it is painful to know the amount I gave up.
My family comes first,and I let him know that in the first interview. I want my kids to have everything, but what fun is it if I am not there to enjoy it with them. I have given up so much for them, and sometimes it is a fight with a stubborn 4 y/o, and a 7 y/o who won't listen. I stepped down from my position 4 years ago to stay home to raise them, I am pretty much back in that position now but I wouldn't trade that experience of being Mr. Mom for anything.
 
Those lack-of-caffeine headaches aren't worth it. Drink up!


Good night, everyone!

Let's hope I can fall asleep. I have the worst headache that I've ever experienced. I swear my vein is about to pop out of my temple! I think I did it to myself from severely cutting back on caffeine. I drink way too much pop for my own good. I substituted it for mostly water today and now I think the lack of caffeine is catching up to me. Tylenol certainly isn't doing the trick!!

Sleep well & sweet dreams. I will catch up tomorrow!
 
I got my phone call around 6pm.

I got the job!!!


But...



...I turned it down, if I took it I would have been working 12-9 Mon.-Fri. and 8-1 Saturday mornings. I would have missed my boys growing up, my father wasn't there for me after my parents divorced, and I wasn't going to let that happen to my kids. I want to watch them play baseball games, Cub Scouts, and whatever endeavor they decide to do. I was teary after I hung up with my interviewer, I really wanted this job. I want to maybe even need to change careers, the money would have made us comfortable, maybe even very comfortable, but time with my family is more important. He understood, and told me if I change my mind to call him.

Everything happens for a reason.
Then you absolutely made the right decision. I made a similar decision a few years ago, and I never regretted it.
 
I had learned from my mom how money is not everything. She said this from experience. Her family went from riches to rags when she was growing up. When she was really young her family was very wealthy and had a beautiful home in California. They even lived in the same neighborhood with one of the Little Rascals! When her dad tried to expand his business it failed and they were poor, not homeless, but just struggled a bit. She said that money didn't mean a thing because her family was happy with or without money. Not to say anyone should go homeless at all but the way she taught me is if you have a roof over your head, food on the table, clothed (you get the picture) and most important, family time that will define happiness! She said her family did a whole lot together and were always on the go. She had a good life growing up and money wasn't the key factor for happiness. No matter with all this said, I know we all still want to get past that "paycheck to paycheck" mode! I know we would like that as well! I want more money and happiness both!!! But we just make the best of it! :D

I feel confident that something will come along for you with a little more money and the desired hours you want. Maybe this place that wants you will call you back with what you want! Good luck to you!

Thank you for the kind words.
I am lucky to even have the option to turn down the job, I know a lot of people are out there struggling right now, and my family and I are lucky with everything we have attained. We may not be rich or even comfortable, but we have a closeness that is more important than any of that. My goal is to find a new job because I am miserable where I am at, I never fully discovered how miserable I was there until I was on vacation.
 
You are so thoughtful to put your family first. And you are lucky to have a wife to help in that decision and to support you in that. Soon you will feel a lot better about it, especially when one of the kids hits a homerun or wins the Pinewood Derby and you are right there!

My son won the Pinewood Derby last year, but I missed it because I was working. :-o
 
Good morning,

The PCB's have hit me hard this morning, I guess I haven't been paying attention to them with the whole job thing. I really am missing Christmas today, I have one of my DVR recordings on, the tree is lit for one of its final days being up. I will be heading to work in about an hour, of course I don't want to go, but my hours have been cut, and I am not scheduled tomorrow, so I need to talk to them and see if I can get on the schedule.

I hope you all have a great Pines Day.
 
Good foggy, chilly morning, everyone. I have a teachers' meeting after school today, so I will not be home until after 3 p.m. I have been coming home immediately after the bell rang. This morning, the pain has been pretty bad. I think it is because of using my arm to write on the board and the pain is centered right on my right shoulder blade. I just took some pain pills, but I won't be able to take anything again until I get home.


Dawg, I hope the results for Snowball are good. CM3, I also hope that Wish will improve more and more. Our animals are so important to us all.


Made, have you ever read Woodsong by Gary Paulsen? It is really good. He tells about getting ready to race in the Iditarod. I learned a lot about animals from that book. Have you ever read Hatchet?

Xmas, I have been thinking a lot about you and how proud I am to call you friend. You are a special dad.

I wish I had time to rest before going into school. I really need to practice being retired!!! LOL!

Where in the world did Carl get a clock that strikes 13? So cool!!! I had a moment to stop in before getting ready for school. The decorations are gorgeous, and the gold sprinkles on the fired Twinkies really add to the festivities! Way to go, Carl!

TTYL
 
Don't do it. I just hurt my rib again by trying to clean. I thought since the bump on my rib went down in size and because it wasn't sore anymore that I could lift things and clean like I always do. Now I am paying the price!!

I hope you are better now, jennifer!
 
Hey everyone! Busy day at work..glad it's over..Now we have Jordans' birthday party tonight..A year ago today we were at the hospital and I my life changed forever!! Will post pictures later of the party.Hope everyone is doing okay..My PCB"s were bad today but should get better as the work week goes on!

Happy Birthday to Jordan!
 
The rules changed when I was a junior in college!!! Today was fun for the kids. They were really glad to have me back. One of the subs I had did not do a good job. She took apart the packets I had copied so she could give the pages out individually. Grrr. I give out the packets so students will have everything for the week in their priority folders. So I had to spend a lot of the day putting the packets back together. Plus, she didn't even complete half the stuff that should have been done, so we are starting off behind by about a week.

Good luck in going back to school. If I could, I would be a perpetual student. I love school!!! The extra education will definitely help!

Me, too!
 
Made, have you ever read Woodsong by Gary Paulsen? It is really good. He tells about getting ready to race in the Iditarod. I learned a lot about animals from that book. Have you ever read Hatchet?


I haven't read woodsong yet but it's on my list. I loved Hatchet. It was one of my favorite books when I was younger along with My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. I never realized that there was follow up's to hatchet though. So when I found them at half priced books I made my sister buy them for me for Christmas. There's still one more out there that I don't have but my library has it as a kindle book so I signed up for the waiting list for it last night.
 
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