Good Things Come in Threes…

We had the most incredible weekend! As many of you are aware, we were much less than impressed with our day care situation. That is over. Adelynn was dealing with a nasty diaper rash. That is almost gone. Plus, we found an extra little source for income – which is always nice!

** People like Chris, Samuel and Erik… you’re welcome in advance for the story about diaper rash on the family blog. I know it will be incredibly interesting for you :P **

On Friday, we finally said “Enough is enough” about that stubborn diaper rash, and we took Adelynn to the doctor. We had a few opinions on it beforehand and no one seemed to think it looked like a yeast rash. But none of the over the counter creams were working. (We had tried 4 different ones and it had been almost a month). We saw a different doctor in the practice but he concluded that it was in fact yeast related. So we were recommended another cream called Lotrimin AF. I went in to Walgreens and looked in the baby section with no luck. I asked the lady there where to find it and she showed me an Athlete’s Foot cream. I was a little surprised as I never saw us putting athlete’s foot cream on our baby’s bottom end. :) We are using that for her and it’s clearing up quickly! We hope to have her back in the cloth soon.

The second exciting thing that happened over the weekend was finding a second job for me. Mary’s Mary Kay Sales Director, Rachel Wahle, was looking for an office assistant. I thought the job would be part-time and would let me take Adelynn with me to work. The only disappointment was that it was only 10 hours a week. So it will just be a second job instead of my main one. I had no interest in quitting Stifel, because I love it so much, but if being able to take Adelynn with me would save us money for childcare and would get us out of the day care… I would be all over it. So as it turned out, I accepted the position and Rachel is just too much fun. She is energetic, but not overwhelming. This week is my first week and we are spending it by planning Thursday’s event. I basically get paid to be creative and organized… two of my favorite things to be.

When I had my interview on Saturday, we talked about the day care situation and she suggested a friend who was looking for a job. Her name is Lisa Erbe and she started watching Adelynn at our house this morning. She is very very nice and they both had a great day. She came over last night to meet us and she ended up sticking around for a couple of hours just talking to us and playing with Adelynn. She graduated with a Theatre degree so we checked with both Mary and Charles about her and they both said she was great. This was about the first morning in 3 weeks that I haven’t cried or been sick to my stomach because I had to leave her. (The exceptions were the mornings that her Grandmas came to watch her.) The only down side is that she will only be available until school starts, then we are back to square one. But the Kstate Jardine day care should have openings by then because they open a second infant room during the school year. But as we know especially well, when God closes one door, He opens another.

A year ago if we were doing this blog, Dave and I would probably just tell you about our relaxing weekends with our friends and what random things we did.

This year is completely different… and we wouldn’t change a thing. :)