Usual stuff...

Well another week is almost done. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the grind of work on the job, work on stuff around the house, and various tasks so that time seems to compress and speed up. Before I knew what happened, it is already mid-June of 2006. I have a feeling that this "time change" gets worse as you age. Sorry for the philosophy break, but I just started thinking about how fast things have come and gone.
There are some juicy things that happened at work this week, but I have to keep quiet about them for awhile. Remind me in a couple of weeks and I will tell you all about it. There is one thing that will make it interesting at work that I can talk about. One of our technicians left for another job. It is a good move for her, but it means having to find and train a new technician. My track record in that area is not stellar. In fact, the last couple of hires I have picked have bombed. I have decided on one of the girls already working in the store, so as to cut down on some of the Wal-Mart training that we have to endure. I just hope that she will be able to pick things up quickly and that everyone "jives" OK. Tensions at work are not a good thing to have to deal with. I often feel responsible for any little spats that come up because I am the manager. But as George McFly says, "I am sorry son, but I am just not good at confrontations." The other thing about hiring the new tech that will be fun is that she is not able to come over to pharmacy until July 7th. That means the week of July 4th will not be pretty. I am thinking about working by myself on the weekend of that week just so we can have 2 techs on each of the weekdays. It is going to be brutal.
Enough about work, I have not said anything about Abbie yet, have I? She is walking now. She has not quite perfected it, and she crawls when speed is required, but she is walking nonetheless. She is growing so fast (all except her hair). She is making more demonstrative actions of affection and there is nothing better than a smile or kiss from that little girl.
Once again, I will try not to let so much time elapse between blogs but I can not promise anything. Have a good weekend everyone.

Abbie's 1st Birthday Party

Abbie's 1st birthday party was Saturday the 10th and it went well. It was a stress on mommy, but she put on a great party and I think everyone there had fun. Even the little stinker birthday girl had a good time. The whole birthday party thing kept us busy this weekend. So much so that it was late Sunday afternoon before my wife and I said "Happy Anniversary" to each other. Even worse, we did not mention congrats to our parents either. I feel terrible about that and I hope they both know we love them and had we not been so distracted we would have celebrated with them as well. Anyway, happy belated anniversary to mom and dad and to Ralph and Janice. Back to the party, Abbie did well and received some very nice presents. She was a little fussy until she got some cake frosting in her. She has become little miss personality lately. Her dances, laughs, and general yelling noises are becoming more to "show off" and to elicit smiles from her audience. Once again, I have to continually thank God for how much he has blessed us with this little girl.
I hope to revamp Abbie's website and update it now that she is a year old. Give me some time though, I seem to have other things pop-up on me from time to time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBIE!

Well, it is here! My little girl is ONE YEAR OLD today! That is hard to fathom. So many things have happened that make me say "I can't believe...." Things like: I can't believe I have been married almost 7 years, I can't believe I turned 30 this year, I can't believe I have a child, I can't believe I am out of college and have gainful employment. I still feel like a child myself. Here I have this little girl that is growing each and every day, and increasingly looking to me for most everything. If I step back and look at it like this, I just shake my head. Otherwise, things seem to just keep rolling along and we keep hitting these milestones. My parents will have been married 40 years this year. My in-laws will have their 45th anniversary. I know the saying that "life goes on," but I can not believe how FAST it goes on. One year ago today, my wife had 16 hours of labor and our beautiful 9 pound 7 ounce little girl was born. I can still remember that and so many other moments from this past year. In one year's time I have gone from thinking only of myself or my wife to thinking of what does this little baby need or want? Not that I don't think of my wife or myself, but it is hard not to be fixated on Abbie, as this blog obviously reveals.
Enough remember whens, I just wanted to say, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBIE!" 6-9-06