Day off

I was to sign the contract to the house for twelve months today, but it was not to be, as my landlady's boyfriend who writes up the paperwork asked to reschedule twice now.
On the upside I am enjoying a nice long leisurely afternoon with my children.
We have walked the park, talked, read and watched movies and played with Kiki, our parakeet.
My bestest has been gallant fixing up the light fixtures in the house. He reassured me today that he would be with me for the long haul and that he was honored to just have the opportunity to be with me. No man has ever spoken to me in this fashion. It is without a doubt, the reason he is my bestest😉😍😍

Ride home

We have been working the consumables mostly and in the morning I had two co workers ask me for a ride home.
One is a girl named Summer (not her real name) and the other a mother figure to me, we will call her Carla.
Summer lives a ways out but gave me five dollars for the ride. It's an unpaved county road but I was rewarded with the story of her ongoing custody battles and being shown and given two baby piglets to hold. I didn't even know piglets could have red eyelashes!
My bestest rode with me, ever cautious and concerned about the distance and the recent rains which could have gotten my vehicle stranded in the mud.
Carla lives closer to town and is a dear lady who can massage your neck or hand in the most invigorating way no matter how tired or beat up work got you.
I got my children for our weekly overnight and am happy and grateful for it. We took some more things over to the new house we are moving into and watched movies we borrowed from the library.
Tomorrow we will go back to the house to sign the twelve month contract.
They want to meet early so I will be lucky to get my kiddos up and out of bed by then. Love it :) :D

Call in

Last night I called in sick. We are put on   a "five strikes and your out" system. They call them "occurrences". I am at 3.5 occurrences and with this call in o will be at 4.5. We do have the option to buy an occurrence back with something called protected paid time off. I have about fifteen hours worth of it so I will be alright.
Today is father's day and I am spending the afternoon and evening with my kids bc my soon to be ex husband is working. He works fresh cap, second shift and deals mostly with the meat department. It's raining, lightening and everything else out there. We r crammed in my little studio apartment right now but will be going to work on the new house a little later where we will meet up with my bestest who is an awesome handyman, thank God.
My ex is rude to me a lot and it hurts, I tried making a plea to him so we can co parent peacefully but he seems to be very bitter about that things still. I pray God will work things out so we can be good parents to our kids.

The move

Today my bestest (friend, boyfriend, lover, intended) and I went by the new rental house I have just leased for fifteen hundred dollars down. Earlier in the morning after leaving work we used foggers to clear the home of unwanted pests and then returned to clean and air out the property.
My landlady is a serene, Vietnamese woman who goes by "Mary". She has a nail salon about thirty miles from the town where we reside.
In the morning my bestest put me to sleep in the most amazing way but the relaxation was short lived as the handyman from the apartment complex I'm leaving, steadily drilled, hammered and dropped what sounded like  huge pieces of furniture from the upstairs unit. In addition the neighbor kid came and knocked on my door four times asking to play with my children who were not with me as I split custody with my soon to be ex-husband.
I am fond of cooking and plan steaks and Mac n cheese for dinner.
Hope I can get a nap in before work.

The beginning

On June 29th, I will have been employed with Walmart for a year and have been an overnight stocker for about half that time.
As it is to be expected, my sleep schedule is erratic and my mind swings from incredible clarity to hazy recollection.
As I write this, I have only slept about 120 min in the last 24 hrs, such are the results of working a full-time 10pm to 7am shift while being a mother of four children and simultaneously trying to have some sort of home life outside of work.
I feel blessed to have a job and quote to myself how "the Lord is my strength" verses from the Bible to get thru the feeling of tiredness and nerves.
The nerves are my own personal disposition but are alleviated or aggravated by my less than a year old parakeet named "Kiki".