July 14, 2008
I'll tell you after he's served his notice where he worked - and you'll get right away why this place wasn't a happy place to work.
Wait, wait, don't tell me - you want to know if he got a new one first?
HE DID!!!!!!!!
After all these years, he found a job he wanted and the job wanted him right back. (Well, 5 months of interviews later. No, not kidding.) He starts in about two weeks, and if I were any happier or prouder? I'd frigging explode.
For those who are curious - he's an IT SR. ADMIN. The new job bumped his title, but he was already doing the work at soul-sucking job. His long-term dream is to be a robotics engineer, and he goes to school part time for it.
Oh, and one more thing - the new job, like the old one, has the hours he wanted - 6AM to 3PM. He likes being home in the afternoons to help homeschool, take classes himself, putter on the house, and throw the ball around.
Excuse me while I sorta float around for a while 
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July 11, 2008
That wasn't easy to hear.
I don't want to be that person. I don't want us to be that family. I think of myself, of us, as open. Curious.
Isn't it strange how wrong I am about the person in the mirror?
A couple of years ago, we started putting up walls because there was so much pain and anger around CD's depression. As much as I vented, there was that much more I couldn't - wouldn't - say.
And I never realized that even as we healed, the wall obviously didn't come down. Although Bear has many friends and is really social - the truth is that we seem happiest these days when we're the 3 of us, whether piled on the couch with Sara watching Mythbusters or walking along the river with our ice cream cones.
This can't be healthy. But I'm not sure I know how to let go, let in. I tell myself we're just a close family, and maybe we are. Yet...
Even after everything becomes all right again, it isn't over.
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