Here we go again!

Ok so I kind of disappeared from the blogging world there for a while but life is good and I'm hoping to get back up to blogging speed, once a week for now. 

As you know I've been quilting the past few years and even purchased a long arm quilting machine.  Well after Christmas I went and got a business license.  I don't have my official certificate but I do have the go ahead to do business.  The official certificate should be arriving at any point.  I'm in the process of putting up a website and blog/gallery for the site.  All I can say is its fun!!!  I don't plan to make this a full time job.  I'm figure I might as well offer my skills to others and if possible get paid a little to do it too! My business is called The Winding Bobbin.  More to come on this as it develops.

Family is good.  I keep seeing how big Spencer is and realizing I'm out of the baby stage.  I don't know if I'll be back there again or not but I do miss some of it.  Though I think I'm going to miss the toddler age more.  Its so funny to hear what Spencer has to say and how he plays.  The other day he was saying the word stupid at the lunch table which is not allowed in this house.  I scolded him and he stopped.  A few moments later he told me his stomach said a bad word.  I asked him if his tummy needed to go into time out. He said yes, grabbed at his stomach and pretended to throw it away from him.  What was really odd was watching him watch it float away up to the ceiling.  Next he started to whimper, almost in tears, that it wasn't coming back!  So I said to call it back and pretended to watch the invisible stomach float back toward him.  When it got close he grabbed it and you could see the look of relief on his face. 

We've had a nice change in Chris's work.  He has been absolutely hating his job for the past few months.  It was just getting worse and worse.  They were even threatening his job if he couldn't get his crew to turn out the appropriate numbers.  That's understandable but Chris just couldn't stand the way they were so demeaning to him and his employees -actually the whole department.  For example Chris was told a couple of times he'd have to threaten the jobs of his best employees, just because they had one or two bad days and we're not talking major problems.  His best employees were getting fed up and wanting to quit.  Chris knew there was a better way but just couldn't get the support from management above him.  So they just kept going in circles.  Eventually some changes were made and Chris was kind of a floating supervisor helping where needed. He would come home telling me about how the other side of the building doing the same kind of work but a different department treats their employees better and are still able to keep the work standards high.  Well he lucked out.  A manager from that side of the building saw that Chris was just kind of a floater and picked him up to be a supervisor on his shift.  Chris is still doing the same work but feels good about what he's doing.  They have a much more positive and logical way of managing their crews. He may still have to threaten employee's jobs but it is when there is a real problem.  Its interesting how a different perspective can make such a difference in the same work.  I really like how pleasant he comes home from work.  I hope it continues.  He's still looking for full time work but now it feels like we can hold out until he can find it.  The last few months were spent trying to handle one week of UPS at a time, doing his best not to quit since he had a family to support.   What a blessing!  I still feel sorry for all those people under the other management.

And Oliver has been our photographer lately!