Well since Caleb’s bout with being sick I tried very hard to make sure he got breastmilk, and I pumped right before the next feeding to make sure of it. But alas, the supply is dwindling down. I had to submit to another try with formula, it’s been about an hour and he is resting, but not so peacefully. Could be the formula, or the storm outside bothing him. I just attempted pumping again and got little again. So it seems my body is doing a good job at weaning itself.
In other news, remember my missing paycheck from last week? Well my boss said on Monday it should be here by Wed. or Thurs. It is now Friday and I hope it is in the mailbox this afternoon! She also said this problem may happen next week as well, and we really cant afford not to have my paycheck next Friday, gas money for our trip kind of depends on it. I mean we should be fine money wise, but it looks like we will be paying gas for four cars: the uhual, my car, dean’s truck and a friend of Dean’s brother who is going to drive his brother back since he will be driving Dean’s truck there for us ( is that as confusing to read as it was for me to write it?) And gas nowadays is not cheap! So we are hoping to be okay but how can you estimate gas for that many cars for that long of a trip, okay, I know you can but I am not good at math and dont care to figure it out. I just worry immensely about our finances, seeing as I write all of the checks and make sure the bills get paid. And we are on the verge of having only one paycheck and I was really counting on my last two paychecks but we’ve had to survive on just Dean’s for the last two weeks, and yesterday our acct was looking quite measely. But luckily Dean got paid today. If we werent dealing with the move and having to pay for it out of our own pockets, Dean’s work is not footing the bill unfortunately, then we’d be just fine and would actually have a little extra money but since we have all of the expenses to deal with it is quite scary. And on top of that, since we are having to break our lease the rental place wants Sept and Octobers rent! We will only be here for 6 1/2 days in Sept and that is it. But since we are breaking the lease they want 2 mos. rent, but they said they will give us back our security deposit and we wont have to repaint the baby’s room back to white. Seems to me if they can be lenient about the deposit and painting that they’d give a little on the rent too. They told Dean if they find someone to rent our townhouse before October then we dont have to pay Octobers rent, but from the looks of it, there are already quite a few empty townhouses in our complex so it’s not like people are fighting to live here. So all in all, this move is proving to be a big expense, I am sure we are doing well enough to afford it but I know most companies pay for relocations, I guess we will have to settle with the nice raise Dean will be getting.
I received a letter from my work yesterday about my FMLA and it said that my return to work date was October 5th! That is still a whole month away! I didnt think I would be off of work that long, I mean before we found out about the move. But since I left work early and had a c-section I ended up with almost 12 weeks off of work anyway. But most of that would be unpaid, so like I said I should only have one more paycheck, I think, maybe two. I never know how these things work. All I know is that if I had to go back to work here, it wouldnt be til October and by then I’d probably be so used to being home that it would be so hard to go back so maybe the move will help me. Well Caleb calls…..oh to be a babe and so carefree….
