You would not believe how much has changed/occurred in our lives in the last 3 weeks.  All of these things feel like they are worthy of individual posts, but I just don’t have the energy to do it.

I spent my first week away from Reed.  I was working in Katy for an audit and couldn’t figure out how to have childcare during the day, so Reed stayed at home with Randy.  I’m still nursing him so I had to pump extra bottles for weeks in advance.  The part I didn’t account for was the fact that I would have to keep pumping (and storing) while I was in Houston.  What a pain!  All in all Reed was fine and I was fine.  Randy is so involved already that he had no problems at all.  Reed was in very capable hands.

I sold the XTerra.  I bought that car right after graduating college and it was the first car I had bought for myself, and the first new car I had ever owned.  It was SO good to me.  I owned it from June 2002 to September 2009 and put 2 sets of tires, 1 new battery, and a set of brake pads on it.  That’s it.  It was a sad day when it left our driveway.

I got a new job.  I’m still working at Tesoro, but I’m finally out of audit.  Some people love audit and want to do it forever, but I am not one of them.  It’s a great starting place and you get to learn tons about the company as well as meet lots of people, but I never felt like I was contributing to the operation of the company.  I really needed that part.  The way I got my new job is the best part.  There had been an analyst job posted on our intranet, but I didn’t apply for it.  A mommy friend of mine really pushed me to meet with Louie (the Director) and see if I would be interested.  I tried to meet with him the Friday I was to return from Houston, but we didn’t finish on time and I wasn’t back.  I met with Louie on Tuesday Sept. 8.  He urged me to apply and said they had already selected a candidate but that if I was interested in applying he would re-open the position.  He did, and I did the same day.  I interviewed on Thursday and was offered the job on Friday.  Needless to say I accepted.  I started the new job right before we went to Vermont for vacation and can’t wait to really get started!!

I will make a separate post about Vermont and the new things Reed is doing.