There have been many highs and lows this week.
Some really amazing highs have happened this week.
The appraisel for the house we are buying went off with out a hitch which means in 2.5 weeks we are going to be the proud owners of an amazing house that we love so much that every time we visit and have to leave the kids cry and say that they don't want leave. Only a few more weeks and we will have the keys and we can move in and then we never do have to leave (except to go to school and work).
Another outstanding and most fabulous high happened this week. I was offered a promotion, permanent employment and a raise on Thursday. I have been working for this promotion since the day I walked into my job. Everything I have done has been in effort to strive to get to this place. It's so amazing to finally see that day realized. I get to be Team Lead over an amazing group of individuals who I already know quite a few and really like. Hopefully the feeling will be mutual. Another part of this high is that not only did I get a promotion but the job I am getting was previously done by a good friend of mine who also got her own raise and promotion. I am so proud of both of us and I couldn't be any happier and I think our employers are really lucky to have us.
Another high, my mother (who I would like to mention is the absolute best mother that ever walked this planet and I don't know where I would be with out her .. actually I do and it's just too scary to think about) found a great daycare near the new house for the kids to go to. How is finding a daycare a high you asked??? Well the great thing about this daycare is that it's right on my way too and from the new house from work, it's CHEAPER than what I am already paying for daycare and they have extended hours from 5am to 6:30 pm so that if and when I need to work some overtime with my new job I will be able to go into work early and stay a little later and not have to worry about the monkeys. SCORE!!! Did I mention it's CHEAPER??? Oh and my mortgage is going to be cheaper than rent, and getting the new raise .. it's like getting 3 raises in one month. Should make life a lot more liquid!!!
It's definitely been a one of a kind week because along with these amazing highs .. there have been some devastating lows as well. Emotionally I have been torn this week on behalf of several of my dear friends.
I found out that a very dear friend of mine had lost his 22 year old cousin in Iraq last week. What a tragedy and shame. I have been praying for him and his family ever since. So hard to lose a loved one, but I want to say thanks for that young mans service to his country.
Next I found out early this week that my friend and co-worker had found her husband dead that morning of unknown causes. Just out of the blue she got up one morning and he was just gone. It was just such a shock to all of us. The visitation for friends was this on Wednesday night and he looked so distinguished in his dress greens (he was a retired SFC from the US Army). My heart is with my friend because I know tomorrow she will bury her husband and best friend and she's in another state and I can't go and show my support but I hope she knows my thoughts and prayers are with her.
As sad as both those losses were there is another that has just rocked my world and my heart this week. Another friend of mine lost a child she loved very much. Her 16 year old cousin had a rough break from the start. He lost his mom to an illness when he was 11 and he came to live with my friend and she raised him along with her son for 4 years. The troubled boy just never was able to get over all he had been through losing his mom. He ended up in foster care for the last year. This week he was found dead by his best friend. He had commited suicide. i can't think of any loss that can be more tragic and more senseless than that poor lost kid taking his life because he felt he didn't have any other way out. As a kid I battled depression every day and battled suicidal thoughts more than I would care to admit. I was so lucky though I had two amazing parents that fought for me on every pass. They pounded it in my head that suicided was senseless and selfish. I never knew why they were so adamant about it until one day as a grown up my mother confided in me that my parents were told by my psychologist when I was 9 that I was a prime candidate for child suicide. I cried for hours after hearing that. Luckily though my parents saved me. I so wish that my friends young cousin had the same kind of influences in his life so that someone could have been there to keep him from making such a desperate decision.
I'm not sure yet what I am supposed to have learned from all of this week, I know there is a lesson in everything if you just look hard enough you will figure it out. I'm still working on figuring them out though.
