Self-Employed

Matt is officially self-employed now. . an opportunity that we couldn't refuse came up thursday, and on friday morning, Matt quit his job. ( scary thing to do in this economy ) . . for the past 8 months, Matt has basically been working two full time jobs, one to support us, and then his own company to one day support us. On thursday a very-very large company( perhaps to be named later ) had a phone conference with matt, and offered some pretty amazing support via joint marketing and software development. The work will be hard and there will be just a many hours away from home ( for a while anyway ) as there was before, but I now have a husband who enjoys what he does. I am determined to be the supportive wife he needs for me to be in order for this to work. Matt and I both feel that this is the right thing for our family at this time. He is out right now installing something for a client at his old job, and when he comes home, he will officially be done with that place. If this new opportunity works out, in the long run, Matt will be able to spend more time at home than he would if he had a 40 hour a week job, we will hopefully have income more than sufficient for our needs, and will hopefully be able to help out family members. We will be able to get out of debt and build our food storage. I really would love to give you all the details, but I am afraid if I do, it may not work out. . . . .then I would look like a liar, and we don't want that.



On another note, our back yard is almost in. . . . If it would ever stop snowing, then we will have them come hydro-seed it. I need spring to be here . My mom made Selene a really cute easter dress. . . . I will post pictures of it next week after she wears it and I actually take pictures. I've been experiementing with my camera, and I am finding some really great settings on there that make my pictures look better. notice how she is more the focus in the picture, and the background is blurred. . . . . I like it.

Oh, and Selene is finally teething. . . . friday night, she was up every few hours, the only relief for her was tylenol. poor thing. . . Her two bottom teeth are coming in at the same time. . . .Last night she did sleep though the night though. it looks like one of her teeth has broke though her gums finally, if not, it's so close to the top, that it looks like it's broken though. My sister in law gave me 3 boxes of clothes for Selene. it's so nice, I'm not going to have to buy her anything at this point until she's like 2 1/2 . gotta love hand me downs.

Oh, and I found that if you like the hair bows you can buy at the kiosks in the mall, there are great instructions on Youtube ( the hairhardware ones are the best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjDOfMoRvEY&NR=1 . .) . . . and you know those cute gerber daisy's that people put on their baby headbands. . . . easy to make, I make 4 of them last week . . . I just went to Roberts and found 4 gerber daisies that looked pretty flat, then I pulled the flower part off of the stem and glued them down to a clip . . . really easy and super cute. I'll post pictures of all of those later too . . . I'm too lazy to go take pictures of them now. I still need to practice making the bows, as they don't look quite right still, but I will I'll get it down here pretty soon. My goal is to have them looking like this http://www.katelynandco.com/item_141/Celadon-Pink-Wheat.htm