Everything's Coming Up Millhouse!

I thought I had one wonderful piece of news to share today, but it seems like the good news has multiplied!

The original good news was that my wonderful husband just landed a sweet new job!  He interviewed on Tuesday and got the job yesterday and will start on August 20th!  It is through the University, driving inter-library loans through out the various campuses and down to the sister college about an hour away.  Benefits, regular hours, free tuition after one year of work, paid vacation, a free week off at Christmas, and the ability to start at the bottom and work your way up the ladder.  He is very excited and so am I!  Selfishly, I am excited because if I have to stay late at the college to teach classes, I no longer have to scramble for daycare...he will be available!  If I want to make plans after work, I will be able to because I'll know for certain when he'll be off work. I know he has enjoyed his time working in the trades/construction industry for 12 years, but this is a good time to change and this is a wonderful job to change into.  Silas will be in daycare less (only by an hour or so, but whatever!) and the stress will be less.  The money, however, will be less as well, but luckily I don't give much of a damn about money/things as long as the basics are met with a few coins to rub together at the end of the day.  So excited!  And his wonderful parents have decided to give us their Honda Civic for free to help us get around to our two jobs!  So amazing!  So wonderful!  Such a great support system!

The second good piece of news that I was NOT expecting, is that Silas is now walking!  Just two days ago, in the first entry, I was stressed that I was sending my poor baby away without the skills to walk.  And now he's walking!  Watch out, he's not a baby anymore.  He's a bonafide toddler!  We got home from work/daycare and I put him in the dining room while I scrambled to make dinner.  I looked up and he was in the middle of the room, walking toward me.  How did he get there!?  I watched him excitedly after this to find that he was enjoying carrying his single shoe in his hands and walking across the room.  He even would change directions, pause and stand for a while, and then take off into the other room to play with his toys!  I really thought that he would start to walk on his own (ie: letting go of things and decide to walk on his own without encouragement) slowly.  A few steps, the end.  But no...  it was all of a sudden. I don't know what to be amazed of first!  Are the daycare providers that awesome that they were able to show him some awesome tricks?!!?  I know Silas likes being around other kids more advanced (ie: anyone at all, le sigh, whatever) because (and I'm assuming/projecting here) it's one thing to see his giant mother do something and quite another to see another little person do an activity and for Silas to see how *they* do it and for what purpose.  Whatever the reason, holy hell, he's a walking toddler now!  I am so proud and so happy.  I love my little man!

And the third piece of news is much lesser, but still wonderful for me..  I love my job!  I enrolled in a mandatory two-week how-to-teach class through work and found another one on Aboriginal identity/issues that I'm going to take for fun that is online.  I love being trained!  I love school without homework!  I also found out that I am going to be able to be an embedded librarian for online/distance courses as well, and this is awesome!  Although I'd really like to stay in this city for a few more years, I still am tempted by a distance-only college that is about 2 hours north with amazing opportunities.  The more experience I can get with embedded librarianship the better!  And I'm hoping I can collaborate with my co-worker/former-classmate/all around babette and find a quick-and-dirty no-ethics-approval-needed research project surrounding embedded librarianship and site statistics to undertake during my five month contract.  I'm also going to be able to be the instruction librarian for all EMT-Paramedic courses, which kicks so much butt!  There is going to be so much to do in such a small contract and I'm going to enjoy and milk it for every last drop! 

I hope to continue this daily updating, but tomorrow starts the beginning of a long weekend that will be filled with Silas' first fishing trip, fun with the extended family, a visit from a dear friend from Saskatchewan, ethnic food extravaganza from the Heritage Festival, and hopefully the ability to catch up on some snoozing.  Happy August, y'all!