Red Thread To China 2007

I am not sure what is going on with my job. This is the story...sorry it is so long.

When we adopted Levi we knew that I would have to use all my vacation and personal time for this year when Levi had his surgery and for his physical therapy and my employer was on board with that up until I gave my notice last month. Since finding out that Jerry would be deployed in Oct. and that he would need to go to 2 3 week trainings and a 2 week class starting July 6th, I have had to ask my employer to reduce my hours to part time so that I would be able to take Levi to daycare each morning since my hours ( 5am-1pm )do not permit me to do so. Well needless to say that they would not do that, so I had to give notice. Everything was fine until last week when HR informed me that I would be forced to pay back half of my vacation because I was quitting mid-year. That made me so mad. Under the circumstances my supervisor asked via e-mail that an exception be made due to why I had to take the vacation and Jerry being deployed, but I again got a big NO!! So I just casually suggested that I might have to go to the Dept of Labor because of that and another issue of being the only person on site not paid as punched. Well all of a sudden I am deemed a disgruntled employee and told they might have to let me go because I handle large sums of money at work. So now I am just waiting for the axe to fall and get fired. After 13 years at this job I will be getting FIRED!! Can you believe that? I have done everything asked of me by my supervisor, worked all kinds of crazy shifts, and even done the bosses job to cover his butt, and this is how I am treated. It justs makes me so angry!!! I guess my employer (a fortune 500 company) is not very patriotic after all.

Just look at him, he is a natural born cowboy!!! LOL We had so much fun on the pony ride, he didn't want to get off.

Look at me I can stand at my chalkboard and color!!! I am lovin' this foot. It's digital camo just like my daddy's Army uniform. It even has the United Stated Army Emblem on the front. I support our troops and that includes MY DADDY!!!!

He is all over the place now!!!! I might just loose some weight WOOHOO!!!!!!!
Enjoy

Good news, Levi gets his prosthetic foot on Friday!! We have waited 3 months since his surgery for this day to come. And now it's here....WOO HOO!!! We are so excited for our little man to finally be able to do all the things he wants so desperately to do. Now if we can just get him potty trained before we bring his sissy home. He just seems so uniterested in it. You can talk to him until you are blue in the face and 5 minutes later he pees his pants. He just doesn't tell us he has to go until after the fact. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I haven't had to do this in such a long time, I can't remember how I handled it before. I am hoping that once he can walk he will learn to use the potty better.

We received the referral of our daughter today. We will name her Mylie Jaide Desta Maxwell. We may delete Jaide, but are just not sure at this point. Desta is her Ethiopian name and it means happy or joy. We are already so in love with her. I keep looking at her referral picture and thinking is she really ours? Happy happy day for us at the Maxwell household.

They let us go home yesterday afternoon and Levi was just a little upset that he didn't get to take it home with him. They needed to do some adjustments and when we went to leave they took it off of him and he snatched it back and said "my leg". We had to explain to him that he would get it back in a week or so after they fixed it. He seemed ok with that. The only problem we saw with it is that the second leg has a tendency to fall off, I don't know if it's because his leg has shrunk or just the design, but the other prosthetist took a look at it and said he would talk to Mr. Dwight when he got back. He is supposed to call us on Monday with the date to come pick the finished product up, sometime at the end of next week. We are so excited because he really wants to walk and getting so very independent.