Last night I "led" a Bible study on Philippians 4 at my friend's church. It was lame. I didn't prepare for it well enough. I couldn't find my commentary that I did in a group project many years ago. And everyone but one person didn't show up (including my friend). We did have a good time, but I don't really feel like I taught or led anything. We got to know each other more though, and we did discuss the Lord and Phil. 3 at least. On the way home (she was my ride because we still don't have a car) she invited me and the kids over to her house for the U.S. and England game on Saturday. That'll be fun. John's going to an English pub with some friends from work.
This week my maid has been working a lot of hours because of having our HHE to unpack. She's amazing! (On an unrelated note, I'm missing my crock-pot. I wonder if we got rid of it and planned on buying a new one because I don't think I'm missing anything else from my kitchen in Dallas. It's not an emergency because of the dutch oven that Malachi (read: John) got me for Christmas. John, do you remember what we did with the crock pot?) She washed everything from my kitchen, is washing almost all the linens, and went through all of Malachi's old clothes and organized them by size, organizing Simon's closet at the same time.
Today she cleaned the bathrooms and the floors for the first time this week because I've been having her do HHE stuff. She's also been washing our laundry in the midst of it. I don't have a linens closet, so I need to figure out where to keep all of that stuff. I think I know where we should, it's just a matter of moving what's currently on that shelf to the shelf above it. I can do it!
John and I have a TON of decorations to go through. For the first few years of our marriage I collected a lot of trendy decorations that I don't really like right now. So I think we'll be getting rid of a lot. We still have to decide where all of our wall hanging things will go so the Embassy can come put them up. That service is especially nice because all of our walls are concrete. Great for Earthquakes, not great for hanging things. My calendar is still not up because of that.
Malachi went to school yesterday. He went for the whole day, for assessment, to the school we want him at this fall. I got an email from one of the directors saying that they enjoyed having him and we should hear some time this weekend about whether or not he gets in. I really, really hope so.
I went to the Embassy for Simon's 4 month well check yesterday. He weighed in at 15 1/2 pounds and 26 1/4 inches. He's a growing boy for sure! He really hated the 3rd shot, and the 4th one sent him into a total frenzy. Luckily he's pretty easy to calm down. But as soon as I put him down on the table again to dress him, he started bawling again. Poor baby. He checked out perfectly!
While I was there, I stopped in the office that I'll be working at and scheduled some training time. I won't be able to be paid for it because the government won't pay for two people in the same position, but it'll be valuable training.
I have a stomach bug thing. Hopefully we'll figure it out.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Maid Interviews
We had two interviews set for today, one at 10am and one at 2pm. The 10am came, we'll call her G and she was very nice. Nice enough to tell us that she usually works for singles who just need her for a few hours a couple of days a week and thinks we should look elsewhere. That interview lasted about 15 minutes. G traveled almost three hours for that.
I got to take a two hour nap today between interviews - woohoo!!
The 2pm came, we'll call her P. P was driven by her hubby and when traveling in the car it takes 5-10 minutes to get to our house. But if she works for us she'll walk, so it'll take much longer.
P is great! We're going to call the references that the Embassy has and look at her resume. Unless something doesn't checkout there we're going to go with her. She was willing to negotiate with us on her pay, but we made sure she new that we'd be giving her a raise. She's willing to come here four hours a day Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri. On Wednesday, the day I'll be working if I get the job at the Embassy, she'll come 7:30-5:00 giving her 23 1/2 hours. I think we'll just be paying her for 24.
P has an 11 year old son and a 20 year old son, so she's experienced with kids. She's willing to watch the kids if I need to go out, and she's willing to work nights when John and I want to go out! That's very exciting for me! More Embassy functions, yay!!!
She loves to clean, and is willing to iron even though she doesn't really like it, which is good because dry cleaning here is outrageous! Having her here everyday of the week is great because that means certain things that have to be done frequently (floors) can be done frequently.
We told her that eventually we want her to go to full time, either when I get my job, or when the new year starts. She said that would be fine too. She's very accommodating.
She was great with Malachi when he wanted to show her his castle in the back yard. She's over all very sweet. Both sides have a 30 day trial period to terminate the employment without any consequences. After that I'd have to pay severance and other penalties. So I hope any problems come out before those 30 days are up and either are solved or it's easy to find someone else.
She's worked for Embassy families before. Hopefully those are her references so I can easily talk to people about her and see if she'll be as good a fit as I think she will.
I really, REALLY hope she works out and that we can start using her this week. I hate cleaning. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate cleaning. The last couple of days I've been able to use the painter as an excuse to not clean the downstairs (except the kitchen of course) but that doesn't really work for the bathrooms. Am I cleaning them anyways? Nope! Did I mention I hate cleaning?
On non-maid topics:
I went shopping at the "Costco" down here again today and bought a few things not on the list of course. Who can go there and not do that?! For grocery shopping today I went to the nice store. It's called Auto Mercado and it's really nice! Shopping there was so peaceful. For those who have lived in VA it's like going to Harris Teeter after shopping at Shoppers, for Texans it's like Simon David after Fiesta, and for Minnesotans it's like Byerley's after Cub (although I do remember Cub quite fondly). I did have to pay to have the nice store, but I think that it might be worth it some times. We'll see how often my husband lets me go there.
The dining room is completely painted! There are some spots that I might touch up - we'll see. I don't know if I'm even skilled enough to do that. Tomorrow he's coming in the morning to do the living room. Hopefully he can work fast enough to do it well and get both coats done. We'll see though, the living room is quite a bit bigger than the dining room and it took him about three to four hours to do one coat in the dining room.
Other than that tomorrow we have no plans.
I got to take a two hour nap today between interviews - woohoo!!
The 2pm came, we'll call her P. P was driven by her hubby and when traveling in the car it takes 5-10 minutes to get to our house. But if she works for us she'll walk, so it'll take much longer.
P is great! We're going to call the references that the Embassy has and look at her resume. Unless something doesn't checkout there we're going to go with her. She was willing to negotiate with us on her pay, but we made sure she new that we'd be giving her a raise. She's willing to come here four hours a day Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri. On Wednesday, the day I'll be working if I get the job at the Embassy, she'll come 7:30-5:00 giving her 23 1/2 hours. I think we'll just be paying her for 24.
P has an 11 year old son and a 20 year old son, so she's experienced with kids. She's willing to watch the kids if I need to go out, and she's willing to work nights when John and I want to go out! That's very exciting for me! More Embassy functions, yay!!!
She loves to clean, and is willing to iron even though she doesn't really like it, which is good because dry cleaning here is outrageous! Having her here everyday of the week is great because that means certain things that have to be done frequently (floors) can be done frequently.
We told her that eventually we want her to go to full time, either when I get my job, or when the new year starts. She said that would be fine too. She's very accommodating.
She was great with Malachi when he wanted to show her his castle in the back yard. She's over all very sweet. Both sides have a 30 day trial period to terminate the employment without any consequences. After that I'd have to pay severance and other penalties. So I hope any problems come out before those 30 days are up and either are solved or it's easy to find someone else.
She's worked for Embassy families before. Hopefully those are her references so I can easily talk to people about her and see if she'll be as good a fit as I think she will.
I really, REALLY hope she works out and that we can start using her this week. I hate cleaning. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate cleaning. The last couple of days I've been able to use the painter as an excuse to not clean the downstairs (except the kitchen of course) but that doesn't really work for the bathrooms. Am I cleaning them anyways? Nope! Did I mention I hate cleaning?
On non-maid topics:
I went shopping at the "Costco" down here again today and bought a few things not on the list of course. Who can go there and not do that?! For grocery shopping today I went to the nice store. It's called Auto Mercado and it's really nice! Shopping there was so peaceful. For those who have lived in VA it's like going to Harris Teeter after shopping at Shoppers, for Texans it's like Simon David after Fiesta, and for Minnesotans it's like Byerley's after Cub (although I do remember Cub quite fondly). I did have to pay to have the nice store, but I think that it might be worth it some times. We'll see how often my husband lets me go there.
The dining room is completely painted! There are some spots that I might touch up - we'll see. I don't know if I'm even skilled enough to do that. Tomorrow he's coming in the morning to do the living room. Hopefully he can work fast enough to do it well and get both coats done. We'll see though, the living room is quite a bit bigger than the dining room and it took him about three to four hours to do one coat in the dining room.
Other than that tomorrow we have no plans.
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