A Learning Process

Sometimes it's hard to be in the middle class, you know? Let me preface this by saying I'm glad that Mark has a good job and that we don't rely on welfare to get by.  That said... Oh.  My.  Goodness.  It should not be this difficult to get your child the help she needs if you aren't making minimum wage and receiving government benefits.  There are a lot of things I love about California, but the way they treat the middle class is ridiculous. A little backstory: You all pretty much know about what's going with Bailey - she is very behind in speech and language and definitely needs some help catching up to her peers (she is now 3 years old and is still not speaking in sentences and her words are still a little jumbled).  Her intelligence is very high, but she can't figure out how to put the words together to hold a conversation - something just isn't clicking.  Anyway, she goes to a daycare program three half days a week and it has really helped ...

ALERT THE MEDIA!!  I'M BLOGGING!! Yes, I know, it's been a crazy long time since I've written.  Every now and then I think, "I should really sit down and blog tonight," and then I forget all about it and two years go by.  Such is life! So what's happened since September of 2014? Well... New jobs!  Mark got a new job with GE Transportation as a Technical Advisor in October of 2014.  He's still working at the Barstow railroad hub - he just works for good ol' GE these days doing almost the same thing he was before, just with longer hours with more stress... at least he's making a little more money now ;) I started working too!  WHAT!  Well, technically I have been working the entire time I've been a stay at home mom (right ladies?!), but now I'm making some actual money.  I started back in November of last year and it's FABULOUS.  I work from home 20 hours a week and I don't even have to get naked for random...