From Mom, Sat 10/02/10 11:51 PM

Hi Fav,

G&G took the littles and me to FP's today. It was great, everybody was there. Cubby walks in like he owns the joint. Waving and talking to every table till we get to ours. He is so much like you, like a twin you never had. Knows everyone and everyone likes him. I'm pretty sure that soon he will be saying everyone's name and shaking hands as we go past.

After that we spent the afternoon working in the back yard. The littles road their bikes around, the dogs rolled around in the garden grass, and I cleaned up dog poo and dug up weeds and got an area ready for pavers. I actually placed about 25 down in their spots. Then we packed up stuff and headed to Shirley's place. She worked day shift today after working swing shift last night. She is on days now, 4 on 2 off. That means that she won't always have the same days off any more, I had to put her days off in my phones calendar so I can keep track. Some weekends she will work, some she'll have 1 day off with me, and some both days off. It's gonna slow us down a little bit. Amber gave her notice for job and she is going to start working where Shirley is. When she gave notice, the woman wasn't very nice about it and I guess she said some things that made Amber cry. Doesn't that just make you want to slap that woman? Amber is so sweet and nice to everyone, she doesn't deserve to be treated that way.

I want you to always remember that when you are working for a company, no matter if it is larger or small. All that that business is concerned about is the bottom line, i.e. profits. A company has no loyalty to it employees. Never bring your home life to work and don't take your work life home, keep them separate. An employer doesn't need to know what you do in your time away from work and no one is really interested in what happens at home unless its about something bad happening to you or your family because it gives them something to gossip about. I didn't tell anyone at work about your appendix surgery except for Andy the day you told me about it because he is your friend and he asks about you and I remembered that he had his taken out also. Then two weeks after it happened I told Joseph. I said that the army should take every one's out before they go overseas to keep from having it done in an emergency.

Jolly has puppies going home tomorrow, which is why I came up tonight, so I can help wash puppies and get them ready to go home. I forgot to bring my camera along again. I got Cubby to whistle for me when we were in the backyard today. I tell Bear to whistle and he squeals. hehe.

I love you and miss you all the time. Take good care of yourself. Love Mom, XOXOXOX