Baltimore jobs, msbelle??

well I have meeting with boss's boss on Wed morning which I hope will give me a better feeling for the chances of staying at current company. And that is the first choice.

I used my standing desk for actual standing for hours today to stay awake because jet lag. And I foolishly scheduled a training session on a complicated topic this afternoon, so I asked everyone to snap their fingers in my face if I trailed off to stare into the middle distance while leading the training.

The air conditioning keeps going out in my work building, so I'm having regular conversations with my coworkers like "Is the building hot, or am I dying?"

Wow, msbelle! Good luck!

I am spending a few days with Mom and tthe the nephew. This wasn't what I had planned at the beginning of the summer and periodically I checked to make sure the dates I requested off would be dates my nephew would have free. And they were until his other grandma wanted to see him and this weekend was the only one that would work.

But it's ok. Matthew came up with me and we did early birthday shopping for my nephew. I got him a kit to build a small table top trebuchet. My brother will probably kill me because I keep getting him things that need to be put together but my nephew had no ideas for his birthday other than "electronics". He desperately wants a tablet or a phone . Almost every other kid has access to something like that or a gaming system and he just mainly wants to play games.

Mom's birthday is tomorrow but we had cupcakes and presents tonight. We played Uno amd Exploding Kittens, which Matthew impulse bought today and it's fun. Tomorrow we are trying our hand at Chickapig again. It's a funny little game we were playing all wrong.

I'm worried about my nephew. He is about to turn 11 and he just seems so frustrated by his schedule. Granted he was able to go to some really cool summer camps amd spend the summer in NC but he hasn't seen his parents in a month.

This summer he has done:Tae Kwan Do camp, pottery camp, kayak camp, 2 week sleep away camp, gone to Florida, and another outdoor day camp this week and he'll be going back to Florida. All thar is awesome especially going to Florida and being at the beach and seeing my dad but there hasn't been a lot of downtime for him.

What he really wants is to stay home and be lazy for a few days. He rarely gets a day when he doesn't have to be someplace or do something. I know when he was in NC he had to be on the swim team even when it got the point he hated it. He had something every day after school and most weekends. I think he needs more downtime or unstructured time than he gets.

He has anxiety about things and I know with his family history he is more likely to have depression. I worry my brother isn't going to notice signs in time My brother ignored when E was getting burned out on swimming for a long time. At the end he was able to only do it 2 or 3 times a week but he had to do the swim meets. But it got to the point E was crying before every practice before anything changed.

I just don't want E to have issues or problems that need to be addressed and they because my brother or his GF don't take them seriously in time.

I'm being the calm waiter to msbelle's ... not. It's a really great house, y'all. I got to do the honors of being her drone/proxy & touring it in person. *totally boasting because seriously, an awesome job to have*

Fingers crossed.

I hope it all works out msbelle. Sending lits of ~ma your way

msbelle! That is so exciting. Go you with jumping in with both feet!

I'm sorry about the anxiety over your nephew, askye. Kids are over scheduled and get grumpy and overwhelmed by it often. Mostly it is good to keep them busy with a variety of activities. There are way too many of them that do nothing except play video games or watch tv. My 9 year old nephew here would much rather play Minecraft all day than do the swimming, riding, camping, and other activities his parents have him doing. But he ends up having a good time and makes new friends. His parents also have him doing regular school type work daily all summer before he can game. Most likely because she is a teacher and knows the cost of getting out of that routine all summer.

It's such a hard balance between keeping kids active and over scheduling them.