O.k...so here it goes, my first attempt at blogging. I am a single mother of a beautiful 12 1/2 year old girl. I envy all my other friends blog sites where they can blog and add pictures as their children are starting to grow up. That would have been a lot of fun...guess I should have waited to have kids..lol So we will just do the teen blog thing and all you younger parents can see what fun lies ahead of you.
This year brings a lot of changes for our little family. After 9 years with the company I work for (McKesson) I will have to seek other employement opportunities soon. We were told in October of 07 that the company had decided not to renew the lease on our building and move our business unit to the corporate headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia. Unfortunately this is not a time in my life that I can leave Arizona. My mother was diagnosed with Urachal adenocarcinoma last April and is not doing well. I need to be here with her and assist her as the cancer has spread and is taking it's toll on her. I will more than likely be employed till July 11th, possibly through the end of the year but I have not been given my exact end date yet. The plus side of this is that I will get a decent severance and can spread my wings and find something new to challenge me.
I am also going through the steps to have the lap band surgery in hopes of losing weight. I've gone through the 4 month plan that Aetna requires and am now trying to get everything submitted for approval. I'm hoping that this starts rolling as I want to get it done before I no longer have insurance. Everyone cross your fingers. This would be a great thing for me.
Bryten turns 13 in May...I will officially have a teenager...not that I'm excited about that because I'm not. I can't even tell you how many times I've heard, "but I'm a teenager", or "I'm a pre-teen" or "when I turn 13". AHHHH!!!! So all of a sudden this magical #13 makes you this new person? All of a sudden you should have a cell phone, contacts, a myspace account, yada yada yada. So she has none of these three things yet. She is definitely not ready for a cell phone, and the Myspace thing just aint happenin. In the last year I've gone from buying cute clothes, hair accessories, and toys to buying Hollister/Aeropostale, makeup, bra's, feminine hygeine needs, expensive shoes, and purses. I hope this next job pays better because I'm going to have to find a sugar daddy, rob a bank, or get 3 jobs.
So that is the downside however, I do enjoy helping my daughter look cute and there are some really neat things that appear to happen...like lots of questions. Remember when your little one's would say..but why?, what's that? Well the questions get a little bit different right about now. It does lead into some pretty interesting conversations. I hope that Bryten feels comfortable enough to continue talking to me about these things. I love that she is still a momma's girl even though she is entering into the more independent stage of her life. She loves to cuddle with me, play games with me, sleep with me, and she really is a sweet girl. So even though I may complain about these new changes that are happening. I really am proud to call her my daughter.
Other than working full time, raising a "pre-teen" (as she calls it) and taking care of mom, life just couldn't get any better....well maybe that's a lie. Losing 80lbs, mom getting better, and finding my soulmate would make things much peachier.
